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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

Q6641.Static GKMedium

The city of Madras, now Chennai, was founded in 1639 by:

  1. A.Job Charnock
  2. B.Francis Day and Andrew Cogan
  3. C.Gerald Aungier
  4. D.Francois Martin
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Correct answer: B. Francis Day and Andrew Cogan

The correct answer is B, Francis Day and Andrew Cogan, officers of the English East India Company who in 1639 obtained a strip of coast from the local ruler and built Fort St George, around which the town of Madras grew.

Q6642.Static GKMedium

Which Sikh Guru founded the city of Amritsar?

  1. A.Guru Nanak Dev
  2. B.Guru Angad Dev
  3. C.Guru Ram Das
  4. D.Guru Arjan Dev
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Correct answer: C. Guru Ram Das

The correct answer is C, Guru Ram Das, the fourth Guru, who founded the city in 1577 around the sacred tank he had excavated; the settlement was first called Ramdaspur after him and later took the name Amritsar, meaning the pool of nectar.

Q6644.Static GKMedium

The city of Ahmedabad was founded in 1411 by:

  1. A.Ahmad Shah I of Gujarat
  2. B.Mahmud Begada
  3. C.Sikandar Lodi
  4. D.Alauddin Khalji
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Correct answer: A. Ahmad Shah I of Gujarat

The correct answer is A, Ahmad Shah I of Gujarat, who founded the city on the Sabarmati in 1411 and gave it his own name; the Jama Masjid, the Teen Darwaza and the Bhadra fort belong to his time.

Q6645.Static GKEasy

Fatehpur Sikri was built by which Mughal emperor?

  1. A.Babur
  2. B.Humayun
  3. C.Akbar
  4. D.Shah Jahan
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Correct answer: C. Akbar

He began the city near Agra in 1571, named it the city of victory after his success in Gujarat, and filled it with the Buland Darwaza, the Panch Mahal, the Diwan-i-Khas and the tomb of Shaikh Salim Chishti; the court left it within about fifteen years, by tradition because its…

Q6646.Static GKMedium

Who founded the city of Hyderabad in 1591?

  1. A.Quli Qutb Shah, the founder of the dynasty
  2. B.Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah
  3. C.Nizam-ul-Mulk Asaf Jah
  4. D.Ibrahim Adil Shah
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Correct answer: B. Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah

The fifth ruler of the Qutb Shahi dynasty of Golconda founded the new city on the Musi in 1591 because the fortress of Golconda had grown too crowded, and he built the Charminar at its centre; accounts of the founding also mention the name Bhagyanagar.

Q6647.Static GKEasy

The city of Jaipur was founded in 1727 by:

  1. A.Maharana Udai Singh II
  2. B.Sawai Jai Singh II
  3. C.Rao Jodha
  4. D.Rawal Jaisal
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Correct answer: B. Sawai Jai Singh II

The Kachhwaha ruler of Amber shifted his capital from the hills down to the plain in 1727 and had the new city laid out by Vidyadhar Bhattacharya on a grid of nine rectangular blocks with wide straight streets, which makes Jaipur the first planned city of modern India; the same…

Q6650.Sports GKMedium

A handball match consists of:

  1. A.Four quarters of 10 minutes each
  2. B.Two halves of 30 minutes each
  3. C.Three periods of 20 minutes each
  4. D.Five sets of 25 points each
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Correct answer: B. Two halves of 30 minutes each

The correct answer is B, two halves of thirty minutes each, making an hour of play with an interval between the halves.

Q6652.Sports GKMedium

The term libero is used in which of these games?

  1. A.Basketball
  2. B.Volleyball
  3. C.Handball
  4. D.Table tennis
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Correct answer: B. Volleyball

The libero is a defensive specialist introduced to make long rallies possible: the player wears a shirt of a different colour, plays only in the back row, may be replaced freely without counting against the team's substitutions, and may not serve in most competitions, block, or attack a ball lying…

Q6656.Sports GKEasy

The height of a basketball basket above the floor is:

  1. A.2.43 metres
  2. B.2.74 metres
  3. C.3.05 metres
  4. D.3.50 metres
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Correct answer: C. 3.05 metres

The gallery railing in the Springfield gymnasium from which James Naismith hung his peach baskets in 1891 happened to be ten feet above the floor, and the height has stayed the same ever since for men and women alike.

Q6657.Sports GKEasy

What are the dimensions of a volleyball court?

  1. A.18 m x 9 m
  2. B.28 m x 15 m
  3. C.40 m x 20 m
  4. D.20 m x 10 m
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Correct answer: A. 18 m x 9 m

The net divides the court into two squares of nine metres by nine metres, and an attack line is drawn three metres back from the centre line, behind which a back-row player must take off when attacking.

Q6659.Sports GKEasy

Who is credited with inventing the game of basketball?

  1. A.William G. Morgan
  2. B.Dr James Naismith
  3. C.Walter Camp
  4. D.Hans Christian Lund
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Correct answer: B. Dr James Naismith

A Canadian physical instructor at the YMCA training school in Springfield, Massachusetts, he devised the game in 1891 to keep his class occupied indoors during a hard winter, nailed two peach baskets to the gallery railings and wrote thirteen rules, of which the ban on running with the ball survives…

Q6660.Environment & EcologyHard

The Palghat gap, the widest break in the Western Ghats, separates which two hill groups?

  1. A.The Nilgiris and the Anaimalai hills
  2. B.The Cardamom hills and the Agasthyamalai hills
  3. C.The Sahyadri and the Nilgiris
  4. D.The Baba Budan hills and the Brahmagiri hills
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Correct answer: A. The Nilgiris and the Anaimalai hills

The Palghat gap, about thirty kilometres wide in Palakkad district of Kerala, is the broadest break in the whole chain and carries the road and the railway line that join Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu to Palakkad and Thrissur in Kerala.