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RRB Group D GK Questions 2026

Static GK is not a separate section in RRB Group D, but it decides most of the paper's recall marks. General Science is 25 questions of Physics, Chemistry and Life Sciences at 10th standard (CBSE) level as per CEN 09/2025, and the 20 General Awareness questions lean on the standing facts behind the news: the sport, the award, the institution, the state, the river or the scientist an event touches. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for RRB Group D. The General Science notes go topic by topic through motion and force, work, energy and power, gravitation, heat, light, sound, electricity and magnetism, atomic structure and the periodic table, chemical reactions, acids, bases and salts, metals and non-metals, and carbon compounds, and the Life Sciences notes cover cells, the human body, nutrition, diseases, plants and genetics. The static GK notes cover Indian Railways zones and facts, national symbols, first and largest in India and the world, awards and honours, important days, books and authors, sports GK, art and culture, and the basics of Indian Polity, Geography, History and the Economy. Each note is short facts and tables that can be revised in one sitting. Read a note, then solve its quiz and the previous-year questions on this site to check what stayed.

RRB Group D GK Questions with Answers

Q1642.Static GKMedium

The Lotus Temple at New Delhi is a house of worship of which faith?

  1. A.Bahai faith
  2. B.Jainism
  3. C.Buddhism
  4. D.Zoroastrianism
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Correct answer: A. Bahai faith

The correct answer is A, the Bahai faith, founded by Bahaullah in nineteenth century Persia, whose scripture is the Kitab-i-Aqdas and whose Indian house of worship is the marble building at New Delhi shaped like a lotus in bloom, open to people of every religion and holding no images.

Q1645.Static GKMedium

The place of worship of the Parsis is called

  1. A.Synagogue
  2. B.Agiary
  3. C.Pagoda
  4. D.Monastery
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Correct answer: B. Agiary

The correct answer is B, agiary, the Parsi fire temple in which a consecrated flame is kept burning as the symbol of truth and purity; the highest grade of such a temple is called an Atash Behram, and most of them in India are in Gujarat and Mumbai, where Parsi…

Q1646.Static GKMedium

Who was the first Tirthankara of Jainism?

  1. A.Rishabhanatha
  2. B.Parshvanatha
  3. C.Mahavira
  4. D.Neminatha
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Correct answer: A. Rishabhanatha

The correct answer is A, Rishabhanatha, also called Adinath, the first of the twenty-four Tirthankaras of the present age, whose symbol is the bull and who is mentioned even in some Hindu texts.

Q1648.Static GKMedium

The Zend Avesta is the holy book of

  1. A.Judaism
  2. B.Zoroastrianism
  3. C.Taoism
  4. D.Shinto
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Correct answer: B. Zoroastrianism

The correct answer is B, Zoroastrianism, the faith founded by Zoroaster in ancient Persia and followed in India by the Parsis, whose place of worship is the fire temple or agiary and whose scripture is the Zend Avesta.

Q1649.Static GKEasy

Gautama Buddha delivered his first sermon at

  1. A.Bodh Gaya
  2. B.Lumbini
  3. C.Sarnath
  4. D.Kushinagar
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Correct answer: C. Sarnath

The correct answer is C, Sarnath, near Varanasi, where the Buddha preached to his first five disciples in the deer park; the event is called the Dharmachakrapravartana, the turning of the wheel of law, and it is from the Sarnath lion capital that India took its state emblem.

Q1650.Static GKEasy

The Tripitaka is the sacred canon of which religion?

  1. A.Jainism
  2. B.Buddhism
  3. C.Zoroastrianism
  4. D.Sikhism
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Correct answer: B. Buddhism

The Tripitaka, meaning three baskets, is the Buddhist canon written in Pali and divided into the Vinaya Pitaka on monastic discipline, the Sutta Pitaka of the Buddha's discourses and the Abhidhamma Pitaka of philosophical analysis.

Q1652.Indian HistoryHard

Which Viceroy had the longest term in office and faced the Quit India Movement?

  1. A.Lord Willingdon
  2. B.Lord Linlithgow
  3. C.Lord Wavell
  4. D.Lord Reading
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Correct answer: B. Lord Linlithgow

During it the provincial elections of 1937 were held under the Government of India Act of 1935, India was taken into the Second World War without consulting the legislatures and the Congress ministries resigned in 1939, the Muslim League passed the Lahore Resolution of 1940, the August Offer was made…

Q1653.Indian HistoryHard

The Gandhi-Irwin Pact of 1931 was signed at the end of which movement?

  1. A.The Non-Cooperation Movement
  2. B.The Civil Disobedience Movement
  3. C.The Khilafat Movement
  4. D.The Quit India Movement
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Correct answer: B. The Civil Disobedience Movement

The movement began with the Dandi March of March 1930 against the salt law, and after the first Round Table Conference the Viceroy Lord Irwin negotiated a pact with Mahatma Gandhi on 5 March 1931: political prisoners were to be released, the making of salt for domestic use on the…

Q1654.Indian HistoryMedium

The Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919 took place during the term of which Viceroy?

  1. A.Lord Hardinge II
  2. B.Lord Chelmsford
  3. C.Lord Reading
  4. D.Lord Irwin
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Correct answer: B. Lord Chelmsford

The Rowlatt Act was passed in March 1919 under him, and on 13 April 1919 General Dyer ordered troops to fire on an unarmed gathering at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar; the Hunter Committee was appointed to inquire into it and Rabindranath Tagore renounced his knighthood in protest.

Q1656.Indian HistoryMedium

The partition of Bengal of 1905 was carried out by which Viceroy?

  1. A.Lord Curzon
  2. B.Lord Minto II
  3. C.Lord Hardinge II
  4. D.Lord Lansdowne
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Correct answer: A. Lord Curzon

He announced the partition of the Bengal Presidency in July 1905 and it came into force on 16 October 1905, creating the province of Eastern Bengal and Assam; the official reason was administrative convenience, but the real purpose was to divide the Hindu and Muslim population and weaken the nationalist…

Q1657.Indian HistoryMedium

Who is called the father of local self-government in India?

  1. A.Lord Canning
  2. B.Lord Mayo
  3. C.Lord Ripon
  4. D.Lord Minto
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Correct answer: C. Lord Ripon

His Resolution on Local Self-Government of 1882 proposed boards for rural and urban areas with a majority of elected non-official members and a non-official chairman, and asked that they be given control over local funds, which is why he is remembered as the father of local self-government in India.

Q1660.Indian HistoryEasy

Who was the first Viceroy of India after the Government of India Act of 1858?

  1. A.Lord Dalhousie
  2. B.Lord Canning
  3. C.Lord Mayo
  4. D.Lord Lytton
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Correct answer: B. Lord Canning

The Government of India Act of 1858 transferred the administration of India from the East India Company to the Crown and renamed the Governor-General of India as the Viceroy; Canning, who was already Governor-General when the Revolt of 1857 broke out, became the first Viceroy in 1858 and held the…