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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

Q5550.Static GKMedium

The Lotus Temple at New Delhi is a house of worship of which faith?

  1. A.Bahai faith
  2. B.Jainism
  3. C.Buddhism
  4. D.Zoroastrianism
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Correct answer: A. Bahai faith

The correct answer is A, the Bahai faith, founded by Bahaullah in nineteenth century Persia, whose scripture is the Kitab-i-Aqdas and whose Indian house of worship is the marble building at New Delhi shaped like a lotus in bloom, open to people of every religion and holding no images.

Q5553.Static GKMedium

The place of worship of the Parsis is called

  1. A.Synagogue
  2. B.Agiary
  3. C.Pagoda
  4. D.Monastery
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Correct answer: B. Agiary

The correct answer is B, agiary, the Parsi fire temple in which a consecrated flame is kept burning as the symbol of truth and purity; the highest grade of such a temple is called an Atash Behram, and most of them in India are in Gujarat and Mumbai, where Parsi…

Q5554.Static GKMedium

Who was the first Tirthankara of Jainism?

  1. A.Rishabhanatha
  2. B.Parshvanatha
  3. C.Mahavira
  4. D.Neminatha
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Correct answer: A. Rishabhanatha

The correct answer is A, Rishabhanatha, also called Adinath, the first of the twenty-four Tirthankaras of the present age, whose symbol is the bull and who is mentioned even in some Hindu texts.

Q5556.Static GKMedium

The Zend Avesta is the holy book of

  1. A.Judaism
  2. B.Zoroastrianism
  3. C.Taoism
  4. D.Shinto
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Correct answer: B. Zoroastrianism

The correct answer is B, Zoroastrianism, the faith founded by Zoroaster in ancient Persia and followed in India by the Parsis, whose place of worship is the fire temple or agiary and whose scripture is the Zend Avesta.

Q5557.Static GKEasy

Gautama Buddha delivered his first sermon at

  1. A.Bodh Gaya
  2. B.Lumbini
  3. C.Sarnath
  4. D.Kushinagar
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Correct answer: C. Sarnath

The correct answer is C, Sarnath, near Varanasi, where the Buddha preached to his first five disciples in the deer park; the event is called the Dharmachakrapravartana, the turning of the wheel of law, and it is from the Sarnath lion capital that India took its state emblem.

Q5558.Static GKEasy

The Tripitaka is the sacred canon of which religion?

  1. A.Jainism
  2. B.Buddhism
  3. C.Zoroastrianism
  4. D.Sikhism
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Correct answer: B. Buddhism

The Tripitaka, meaning three baskets, is the Buddhist canon written in Pali and divided into the Vinaya Pitaka on monastic discipline, the Sutta Pitaka of the Buddha's discourses and the Abhidhamma Pitaka of philosophical analysis.

Q5559.Indian States & UTsHard

At the Census of 2011, which Union Territory recorded the lowest sex ratio in India?

  1. A.Daman and Diu
  2. B.Lakshadweep
  3. C.Chandigarh
  4. D.Andaman and Nicobar Islands
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Correct answer: A. Daman and Diu

The correct answer is A, Daman and Diu, which recorded the lowest number of females per thousand males of any state or Union Territory at the Census of 2011; the figure reflects a large male migrant workforce drawn to its industrial estates, factories and port work rather than a difference…

Q5560.Indian States & UTsMedium

The largest tribal community of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, famous for a style of wall painting, is the

  1. A.Gond
  2. B.Varli
  3. C.Santhal
  4. D.Toda
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Correct answer: B. Varli

The correct answer is B, the Varli, the largest Scheduled Tribe of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, found also in the neighbouring districts of Maharashtra and Gujarat; their ritual wall art, called Warli painting, is done in white rice paste on a mud wall and builds human figures from two triangles…