RRB NTPC GK Questions 2026

It was set up on 1 October 1917 as an examining and affiliating university for the province of Bihar and Odisha, and it is the oldest university in the state as well as one of the oldest in the country.

Sholas are patches of stunted, evergreen montane forest found in the sheltered valleys and folds of the high hills of the southern Western Ghats, above about 1,500 metres.

Mass wasting, or mass movement, is the downslope movement of rock and soil under the direct pull of gravity, without a carrying agent such as running water or wind.

A sphygmomanometer has an inflatable cuff wrapped around the upper arm, a rubber bulb to pump air into it, and a gauge, traditionally a column of mercury.

The Sargasso Sea lies in the North Atlantic Ocean, east of Bermuda, and it is the only sea in the world with no land coast.

When an electric current is passed through brine, a concentrated aqueous solution of sodium chloride, the salt decomposes. Chlorine gas is given off at the anode and hydrogen gas at the cathode, while sodium hydroxide is left in the solution near the cathode.

Those areas have a Mediterranean climate with dry summers and winter rain, and their vegetation is evergreen scrub such as chaparral and maquis, not rain forest.

RNA is usually single-stranded and its sugar, ribose, carries an extra hydroxyl group, which makes the molecule more reactive and easier to break or alter than double-stranded DNA.

By Newton's law of gravitation, the acceleration due to gravity at the surface is g = GM/R², where G is the universal gravitational constant, M is the mass of the Earth and R is its radius.

Plantation agriculture is the large-scale growing of a single cash crop such as tea, coffee, rubber, sugarcane, cocoa or bananas, mainly for export.

Molarity and molality are both standard ways of stating how much solute is present in a solution.

Sudha Singh belongs to the Raebareli district of Uttar Pradesh and won the gold medal in the 3000 metres steeplechase at the Asian Games held at Guangzhou in 2010, going on to represent India at the Olympic Games; she is the best known woman distance runner the state has produced.

Mohammed Shahid, celebrated for his dribbling and close stick work, came from Varanasi, was a member of the Indian hockey team that won the Olympic gold at Moscow in 1980, and received the Padma Shri in 1986 after the Arjuna Award earlier in the decade.

The Indian Grand Prix was run for three seasons at the Buddh International Circuit at Greater Noida, beginning with the 2011 race won by Sebastian Vettel, after which the event was taken off the Formula One calendar.

The Yash Bharti Samman, instituted in 1994, is the highest civilian honour of Uttar Pradesh and has been conferred on writers, artists, musicians, sportspersons and others for distinguished achievement, with a cash award.

Uttar Pradesh gives its highest sporting honour under two names, the Laxman Award for men and the Rani Laxmi Bai Award for women, the latter named after the queen of Jhansi, a city of the state; both carry a cash prize and a citation.

Kunwar Digvijay Singh, called K. D. Singh Babu, came from Barabanki in Uttar Pradesh, won Olympic gold with the Indian hockey team at London in 1948 and at Helsinki in 1952, where he was the captain, and the Lucknow stadium carries his name.

The circuit was built at Greater Noida, which lies in the Gautam Buddh Nagar district next to Delhi, and it held the Indian Grand Prix in 2011, 2012 and 2013, the first of them won by Sebastian Vettel.

The Ekana stadium, named after Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee, stands at Gomti Nagar in Lucknow and is the largest and newest cricket ground of the state, used for international matches and for league cricket.

Green Park stands on the bank of the Ganga at Kanpur and has staged Test cricket since 1952, which makes it the oldest international ground in the state and also the home ground of the state cricket association.