RRB Group D 2018 Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

The World Bank has its headquarters at Washington DC in the United States of America. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were both set up after the Bretton Woods conference of 1944 and began work in 1945, and both have their offices in Washington DC.

The zygote divides as it travels down the fallopian tube and the resulting ball of cells gets implanted in the thick lining of the uterus.

Humayun's Tomb in Delhi is one of the earliest and finest examples of Mughal architecture. The tomb was built in 1570 on the orders of Humayun's widow Bega Begum, also called Haji Begum, and the architect was Mirak Mirza Ghiyas of Persia.

One kilowatt hour is 3.6 × 10⁶ joule, so 5.5 kWh = 5.5 × 3.6 × 10⁶ = 19.8 × 10⁶ joule.

The manat is the currency of Azerbaijan, a country of the Caucasus whose capital is Baku on the shore of the Caspian Sea.

The euro is the official currency of the European Union. It came into being as an accounting currency in 1999 and reached people's hands as notes and coins on 1 January 2002.

At the top the object holds only potential energy; as it falls, that store is steadily converted into kinetic energy, and just as it touches the ground almost all of it is kinetic.

The Hundred Years' War was fought between England and France from 1337 to 1453, so it actually ran for 116 years with long truces in between.

NPCI is the umbrella organisation that runs India's retail payment and settlement systems.

Fibrous roots are the mark of monocotyledonous plants such as wheat, maize, rice and grasses, not of dicots.

Minsk is the capital and largest city of Belarus, a landlocked country of Eastern Europe that shares borders with Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.

Chandragupta II extended Gupta rule to Gujarat around 390 AD by defeating the Western Kshatrapas, the Saka rulers of Malwa, Gujarat and Kathiawar.

The Asian Development Bank has its headquarters in Manila, the capital of the Philippines. ADB was set up in 1966 to reduce poverty and fund development in Asia and the Pacific, and it lends mainly for roads, railways, power, water and urban projects.

The work done in moving a charge across a potential difference is W = QV, so W = 5 × 16 = 80 joules.

Triratna means the three jewels in which a Buddhist takes refuge. Buddha is the enlightened teacher, Dhamma is his teaching of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path, and Sangha is the order of monks and nuns that carries the teaching forward.

The Boston Tea Party took place on 16 December 1773, when American colonists threw British tea into Boston harbour. The protest was against the Tea Act of 1773, which let the East India Company sell tea in the colonies without paying the usual duties and undercut local merchants.

Perini Shiva Thandavam is a vigorous warrior dance of Telangana, performed by men in praise of Lord Shiva. It flourished under the Kakatiya kings of Warangal, whose soldiers danced it before going to battle.

Angel Falls, in the Canaima National Park of Venezuela, is the highest uninterrupted waterfall in the world, with a total height of about 979 metres and a single unbroken drop of about 807 metres.

Kolkata earned the name City of Palaces in the colonial era for the grand mansions built by British officials and rich Bengali families along its main streets.

The Reserve Bank of India was nationalised on 1 January 1949 under the Reserve Bank of India (Transfer to Public Ownership) Act, 1948.