RRB NTPC GK Questions 2026

Both statements are true, and the airborne spread of the TB bacterium is exactly why crowded places raise the risk.

A true fruit is a ripened ovary and nothing else. After fertilisation, the ovary of a flower develops into the fruit, its wall becomes the pericarp and the ovules inside become seeds.

The English physician showed in 1796 that deliberate inoculation could protect a person against smallpox. Jenner noticed that milkmaids who had caught the mild disease cowpox did not get smallpox.

Mission Shakti was India's first anti-satellite (ASAT) missile test. On 27 March 2019 DRDO fired a ground-launched interceptor from Dr. A.P.J.

By Archimedes' principle, the buoyant force equals the weight of the water displaced by the sphere. A fully immersed body displaces its own volume of water, here 2 × 10⁻⁴ m³.

Flash memory is erased electrically, not by ultraviolet light, so this is not one of its features. Flash memory is a type of EEPROM (electrically erasable programmable read-only memory) that can erase and rewrite whole blocks at a time, which makes it fast.

Gandhi called Gokhale his political guru, met him on returning from South Africa and, on his advice, spent a year travelling through India before taking up public work.

Bose addressed Gandhi as the Father of the Nation in a radio broadcast from Rangoon in 1944, and the name stayed with him.

Under the subsidiary treaty of 1801 the Nawab of Awadh surrendered about half his territory to the Company and agreed to keep a British force at his own cost, the step that reduced Awadh to dependence and led on to its annexation in 1856, one of the causes of the…

Azad was born in 1906 at Bhavra, a village in the Alirajpur area of the old Jhabua tract, and spent his boyhood among the Bhils there before moving to Banaras.

Rose commanded the Central India Field Force, which marched from Mhow, reduced Rahatgarh and Garhakota, relieved Sagar, forced the Madanpur pass of the Vindhyas, took Jhansi in April 1858 and finally recovered Gwalior fort in June 1858.

After the fall of Jhansi in April 1858 the Rani joined Tatya Tope and Rao Sahib, and in June 1858 they took Gwalior when the Scindia army went over to them.

On that day the Holkar artillery and the Bhil levies turned on the British Residency at Indore.

After the loss of Gwalior in June 1858 Tatya Tope fought a guerrilla war for about ten months through Guna, Rajgarh, Jhalawar and the Chambal ravines, crossing and recrossing the Narmada to avoid British columns.

Shankar Shah was the head of the Gond royal line of Garha-Mandla, the house of Sangram Shah and Rani Durgavati, which had been reduced to a pension by the Company.

Rani Avantibai Lodhi governed Ramgarh, a small estate in the Mandla region of the Narmada valley, after the death of her husband.

The Company and then the Crown treated the region as a punished territory after 1857: the chiefs who had joined the revolt were hanged or exiled and their estates confiscated, and in 1858 the Haryana districts were transferred from the North-Western Provinces to the province of Punjab, to be administered…

The town was laid out by its first Nawab, Faujdar Khan, in the time of the later Mughals and was named after the emperor Farrukhsiyar.

The Satnamis were a sect of peasants and artisans of the Narnaul and Mewat country who rose in 1672 after a quarrel with a Mughal foot soldier grew into a general rising.

The tomb of Abd-ur-Rahim, known as Sheikh Chilli, stands on a high plinth at Thanesar in Kurukshetra district, with a marble dome and a madrasa court beside it, and belongs to the reign of Shah Jahan.