RRB Group D GK Questions 2026

The liver weighs about one and a half kilograms and is both the largest gland and the largest internal organ of the body; it secretes bile, stores glycogen, iron and vitamin A, converts ammonia into urea and detoxifies drugs and poisons.

The adult human skeleton has 206 bones, of which 80 belong to the axial skeleton, that is the skull, vertebral column and chest, and 126 to the appendicular skeleton of the limbs and girdles.

The stapes, shaped like a stirrup, is the innermost of the three ossicles of the middle ear and is the smallest bone in the human body, measuring only a few millimetres; the smallest muscle of the body, the stapedius, is attached to it.

It ended the patronage of the Court of Directors over appointments and laid down that recruitment to the covenanted civil service would be by open competition, which was thrown open to Indians as well; the committee under Macaulay that framed the scheme reported in 1854.

The Act directed that a sum of not less than one lakh rupees be set apart every year for the revival and improvement of literature, the encouragement of the learned natives of India and the introduction and promotion of a knowledge of the sciences.

The Act provided for the establishment of a Supreme Court at Calcutta, and the court was set up in 1774 with a Chief Justice and three other judges, Sir Elijah Impey being its first Chief Justice.

It added six new members to the Governor-General's Council for legislative purposes, so that law-making was carried on by a separate body which began to behave like a small parliament, with its own rules of business, and which is therefore regarded as the beginning of the Indian Legislative Council.

The Charter Act of 1833 added a fourth, law member to the Governor-General's Council for legislative work, and Thomas Babington Macaulay took up the post in 1834.

This Act was the final step in centralising British administration in India: it vested all civil and military powers in the Governor-General of India, took away the legislative powers of the Bombay and Madras governments, and made the East India Company a purely administrative agency holding its territories in trust…

Pressed by British manufacturers who wanted a free market in India, Parliament threw Indian trade open to all British subjects and allowed the Company to keep only the tea trade and the trade with China.

The Act separated the commercial and the political functions of the East India Company, leaving trade to the Court of Directors and placing civil, military and revenue administration under a newly created Board of Control answerable to Parliament.

It was the first attempt by the British Parliament to regulate the affairs of the East India Company: it redesignated the Governor of Bengal as the Governor-General of Bengal, gave him a Council of four, made Bombay and Madras subordinate to him and provided for a Supreme Court at Calcutta.

The Regulating Act of 1773 changed the designation of the Governor of Bengal to Governor-General of Bengal and created an Executive Council of four members to assist him, and Warren Hastings, who had been Governor of Bengal since 1772, became the first holder of the new office.

The deeply indented coast of Kutch and Saurashtra, with the Gulf of Kachchh and the Gulf of Khambhat, gives Gujarat the longest coastline of any Indian state, ahead of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.

These are the latitudes of the southern tip of the mainland at Kanyakumari and of the northernmost part of the country, and between them lie the 3,214 km of the mainland's north-south extent.

The correct answer is C, Bangladesh, with which India shares a border of about 4,096.7 km, the longest of all its land boundaries; it touches five Indian states, West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram.

The Tropic of Cancer, at 23 degrees 30 minutes north, enters India in Gujarat and leaves it in Mizoram, passing on the way through Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Tripura and Mizoram.

This meridian, which passes near Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh, runs roughly through the middle of the country and was adopted as the standard meridian so that the whole of India could keep one time.

Indira Point lies at the southern end of Great Nicobar, the largest island of the Nicobar group, at about 6 degrees 45 minutes north, and is the southernmost point of the territory of India; it was known as Pygmalion Point before being renamed.

The correct answer is B, Kanyakumari, also called Cape Comorin, in Tamil Nadu, which stands at about 8 degrees 4 minutes north and is the southern tip of the Indian mainland, where the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean are said to meet.