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RRB NTPC GK Questions 2026

Static General Knowledge makes up the rest of the General Awareness section in RRB NTPC, and the notices name its topics: General Science and Life Science up to Class 10, History of India and the freedom struggle, Physical, Social and Economic Geography of India and the world, Indian Polity and Governance, Indian Economy, Art and Culture, Indian Literature, Monuments and Places, Flora and Fauna, Famous Personalities, the UN and other world organisations, environmental issues, Transport Systems in India, Important Government and Public Sector Organisations, Common Abbreviations, and Basics of Computers and Computer Applications. RRB frames these as short factual questions: the unit of a physical quantity, the year of a battle, the article of the Constitution, the river a city stands on, the full form of an abbreviation, the headquarters of an organisation. GK24's GK notes on this page cover each topic in English and Hindi, arranged the way the syllabus lists them, with the facts RRB tends to ask placed first. Work through one topic at a time, note the lists (national parks, dances, articles, schedules, awards), and pair each topic with its quiz on GK24 to check what has stayed with you.

RRB NTPC GK Questions with Answers

Q3303.BiharMedium

The Sama-Chakeva songs and figures of Mithila are connected with which relationship and season?

  1. A.Husband and wife, in the rains
  2. B.Sisters and brothers, in Kartik
  3. C.Mother and son, at Holi
  4. D.Farmer and field, at sowing
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Correct answer: B. Sisters and brothers, in Kartik

Sama-Chakeva is the Mithila festival in which girls make clay figures of the birds Sama and Chakeva, sing for the long life of their brothers through the Kartik nights and set the figures afloat or bid them farewell at the end; the songs are among the best known of Maithili…

Q3305.BiharHard

Which gharana of Dhrupad singing belongs to Bihar?

  1. A.Gwalior
  2. B.Kirana
  3. C.Darbhanga
  4. D.Jaipur-Atrauli
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Correct answer: C. Darbhanga

The Darbhanga gharana, carried by the Mallick family under the patronage of the Darbhanga Raj, is one of the surviving gharanas of Dhrupad, the oldest form of Hindustani classical singing; Pandit Ram Chatur Mallick and Pandit Siyaram Tiwari belong to it.

Q3307.BiharMedium

Which folk dance of north Bihar is performed by a couple in the rainy season on the theme of quarrel, drought and migration?

  1. A.Domkach
  2. B.Jat-Jatin
  3. C.Jhumari
  4. D.Jharni
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Correct answer: B. Jat-Jatin

Jat-Jatin is danced in the Mithila and Koshi tract of north Bihar, usually by a pair representing the husband Jat and the wife Jatin; the song moves through their quarrel, the failure of the rains and the husband leaving the village in search of work, which makes it the folk…

Q3308.BiharMedium

The Jhijhiya dance, in which women balance a perforated earthen pot with a lamp in it, belongs to which region of Bihar?

  1. A.Mithila
  2. B.Magadh
  3. C.Shahabad
  4. D.Chhotanagpur
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Correct answer: A. Mithila

Jhijhiya is danced by women of the Mithila region during Navratri, each carrying on her head an earthen pot pierced with many holes and holding a lighted lamp; the dance is offered to the Goddess and is traditionally believed to turn away witchcraft and evil spells.

Q3309.BiharEasy

Bhikhari Thakur, called the Shakespeare of Bhojpuri, is best known for creating which form of folk theatre?

  1. A.Kirtaniya
  2. B.Bidesia
  3. C.Nautanki
  4. D.Reshma-Chuharmal
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Correct answer: B. Bidesia

Bhikhari Thakur, born in 1887 at Kutubpur Diyara in Saran district, wrote the play Bidesia about a wife left behind when her husband migrates to Calcutta for work, and the name was then applied to the whole style of Bhojpuri naach he built, with its songs and its launda dancers.

Q3313.RajasthanMedium

The Shekhawati region of Rajasthan is best known in painting for

  1. A.miniatures on ivory
  2. B.frescoes on the walls of havelis
  3. C.Pichhwai cloth paintings
  4. D.Ragamala manuscripts
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Correct answer: B. frescoes on the walls of havelis

From the eighteenth century the merchant families of Shekhawati, in the Jhunjhunu, Sikar and Churu districts, built large courtyard houses and had their outer and inner walls covered with painted plaster.

Q3315.RajasthanMedium

Phad painting, the long cloth scroll narrating the deeds of folk deities, is traditionally made at

  1. A.Bassi in Chittorgarh
  2. B.Shahpura in Bhilwara
  3. C.Nathdwara in Rajsamand
  4. D.Mandawa in Jhunjhunu
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Correct answer: B. Shahpura in Bhilwara

A Phad is a long horizontal cloth on which the whole life story of a folk deity, most often Pabuji or Devnarayan, is laid out in episodes, and it is not simply hung for display: a Bhopa priest-singer carries it from village to village, unrolls it at night and sings…

Q3320.RajasthanMedium

Who painted the Bani Thani portrait?

  1. A.Sahibdin
  2. B.Nihal Chand
  3. C.Sahib Ram
  4. D.Ruknuddin
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Correct answer: B. Nihal Chand

Nihal Chand developed the elongated, idealised face that defines the Kishangarh style and used it for Radha and Krishna as well as for the single portrait now called Bani Thani, often set against the water of the Gundalao lake.