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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

Q1921.General ScienceMedium

Which bacterium is used as a natural vector to transfer genes into plant cells?

  1. A.Escherichia coli
  2. B.Agrobacterium tumefaciens
  3. C.Bacillus thuringiensis
  4. D.Rhizobium leguminosarum
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Correct answer: B. Agrobacterium tumefaciens

This soil bacterium naturally transfers a part of its tumour inducing plasmid, called the Ti plasmid, into the cells of a dicotyledonous plant and causes crown gall disease; genetic engineers disarm the plasmid, insert the gene they want and use the bacterium as a vector, which is why it is…

Q1922.General ScienceEasy

Which enzyme cuts DNA at a specific recognition sequence and is therefore called molecular scissors?

  1. A.DNA ligase
  2. B.Restriction endonuclease
  3. C.DNA polymerase
  4. D.Reverse transcriptase
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Correct answer: B. Restriction endonuclease

A restriction endonuclease recognises a short palindromic sequence in DNA and cuts both strands there, leaving sticky ends that can pair with another piece cut by the same enzyme; Hind II was the first such enzyme to be discovered and EcoRI from Escherichia coli is the most widely used.

Q1923.Indian HistoryMedium

Who founded the Servants of India Society in 1905?

  1. A.Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  2. B.Gopal Krishna Gokhale
  3. C.Bipin Chandra Pal
  4. D.Madan Mohan Malaviya
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Correct answer: B. Gopal Krishna Gokhale

The correct answer is B, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, who founded the Servants of India Society at Poona in 1905 to train men who would devote their lives to public service on small salaries, and who was the moderate leader Gandhi acknowledged as his political guru.

Q1924.Indian HistoryMedium

The newspaper Al-Hilal was published by

  1. A.Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
  2. B.Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  3. C.Syed Ahmad Khan
  4. D.Maulana Mohammad Ali
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Correct answer: A. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

He became the youngest president of the Indian National Congress in 1923 and later the first Education Minister of independent India, whose birthday is observed as National Education Day.

Q1925.Indian HistoryMedium

Who was the first Indian woman to become president of the Indian National Congress?

  1. A.Annie Besant
  2. B.Sarojini Naidu
  3. C.Aruna Asaf Ali
  4. D.Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
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Correct answer: B. Sarojini Naidu

The correct answer is B, Sarojini Naidu, who presided over the Kanpur session of 1925 and so became the first Indian woman to hold the office; she is called the Nightingale of India for her poetry and later became the first woman Governor of a province in independent India.

Q1927.Indian HistoryMedium

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, known as the Frontier Gandhi, founded which organisation?

  1. A.The Khudai Khidmatgar
  2. B.The Forward Bloc
  3. C.Abhinav Bharat
  4. D.The Servants of India Society
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Correct answer: A. The Khudai Khidmatgar

The correct answer is A, the Khudai Khidmatgar, the Servants of God, a non-violent volunteer force of the North-West Frontier Province whose members wore red shirts and joined the civil disobedience movement in large numbers.

Q1928.Indian HistoryEasy

Who is known as the Grand Old Man of India?

  1. A.Surendranath Banerjee
  2. B.Dadabhai Naoroji
  3. C.Gopal Krishna Gokhale
  4. D.Pherozeshah Mehta
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Correct answer: B. Dadabhai Naoroji

He was thrice president of the Indian National Congress, the first Indian to be elected to the British House of Commons, and the author of Poverty and Un-British Rule in India, in which he worked out the drain of wealth from India to Britain.

Q1929.Indian HistoryMedium

Vallabhbhai Patel received the title Sardar after leading which movement?

  1. A.The Champaran Satyagraha of 1917
  2. B.The Kheda Satyagraha of 1918
  3. C.The Bardoli Satyagraha of 1928
  4. D.The Dandi March of 1930
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Correct answer: C. The Bardoli Satyagraha of 1928

The peasants of Bardoli taluka in Surat district refused to pay a steep increase in land revenue, Vallabhbhai Patel organised the resistance, the government was forced to appoint an inquiry and roll back most of the increase, and the women of Bardoli gave him the title Sardar.

Q1930.Indian HistoryMedium

Who among the following is known as Deshbandhu?

  1. A.Chittaranjan Das
  2. B.Rajendra Prasad
  3. C.Charles Freer Andrews
  4. D.Jayaprakash Narayan
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Correct answer: A. Chittaranjan Das

The correct answer is A, Chittaranjan Das, the Bengal leader who gave up a large legal practice for the non-cooperation movement, defended the Alipore bomb case accused, and founded the Swaraj Party with Motilal Nehru in 1923 to contest the legislatures from within.

Q1931.Indian HistoryMedium

The title Father of Indian Unrest was given to Bal Gangadhar Tilak by

  1. A.Lord Curzon
  2. B.Valentine Chirol
  3. C.Annie Besant
  4. D.William Wedderburn
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Correct answer: B. Valentine Chirol

The correct answer is B, Valentine Chirol, a British journalist of The Times who used the phrase for Tilak in his book on Indian unrest, holding his writings responsible for turning the people against the government; Tilak sued him for defamation and lost, and the title stuck as a mark…

Q1932.Indian HistoryEasy

Who addressed Mahatma Gandhi as the Father of the Nation?

  1. A.Jawaharlal Nehru
  2. B.Subhas Chandra Bose
  3. C.Rabindranath Tagore
  4. D.Vallabhbhai Patel
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Correct answer: B. Subhas Chandra Bose

The correct answer is B, Subhas Chandra Bose, who called Gandhi the Father of the Nation in a radio broadcast in 1944, asking for his blessings for the fight the Indian National Army was carrying on from the east.

Q1933.Indian HistoryAsked in: SSC GD Constable · 15 Feb 2019, Shift 3Medium

Who started the newspaper Mook Nayak in the year 1920?

  1. A.Dadabhai Naoroji
  2. B.Jyotiba Phule
  3. C.B. R Ambedkar
  4. D.Mahadeo Govind Ranade
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Correct answer: C. B. R Ambedkar

He launched the Marathi fortnightly Mooknayak, meaning leader of the voiceless, in January 1920 with help from Shahu Maharaj of Kolhapur, and used it to argue the case of the depressed classes; Bahishkrit Bharat, Janata and Prabuddha Bharat followed.

Q1934.GeographyMedium

The Saffir-Simpson scale is used to classify

  1. A.earthquakes by the energy released
  2. B.hurricanes by their wind speed
  3. C.tornadoes by the damage caused
  4. D.droughts by the rainfall deficiency
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Correct answer: B. hurricanes by their wind speed

The Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale puts a storm of the Atlantic and the eastern Pacific in one of five categories by its sustained wind, from Category 1, which begins at about 119 km/h, to Category 5 at 252 km/h and above, and a storm of Category 3 or higher is…

Q1936.GeographyEasy

Which statement about the eye of a tropical cyclone is correct?

  1. A.It has the highest wind speed in the storm
  2. B.It is a calm core of descending air with the lowest pressure
  3. C.It is the band of heaviest rainfall
  4. D.It is found only in temperate cyclones
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Correct answer: B. It is a calm core of descending air with the lowest pressure

The eye is ten to fifty kilometres across, the air inside it sinks rather than rises, the wind is light and the sky can even be clear, while the atmospheric pressure there is the lowest in the whole system.

Q1937.GeographyMedium

In the Southern Hemisphere, the winds of a cyclone blow

  1. A.clockwise and inwards
  2. B.anticlockwise and inwards
  3. C.clockwise and outwards
  4. D.anticlockwise and outwards
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Correct answer: A. clockwise and inwards

A cyclone is a low pressure system, so air flows inwards towards the centre, and the Coriolis force deflects moving air to the left in the Southern Hemisphere, which turns that inflow into a clockwise spiral.

Q1940.GeographyMedium

Which body names the tropical cyclones of the north Indian Ocean?

  1. A.The Regional Specialised Meteorological Centre, New Delhi
  2. B.The National Disaster Management Authority
  3. C.The Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services
  4. D.The National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting
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Correct answer: A. The Regional Specialised Meteorological Centre, New Delhi

The names themselves are contributed by the thirteen member countries of the panel, but the centre at New Delhi, which the India Meteorological Department runs, takes the next name from the list, announces it when a deep depression strengthens into a cyclonic storm, and issues advisories to all the member…