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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

Q7883.Science & TechnologyHard

A fifty-one per cent attack on a blockchain refers to a situation where an attacker

  1. A.Guesses the private keys of more than half the users
  2. B.Controls more than half the mining power or staked coins of the network
  3. C.Owns more than half the coins in circulation
  4. D.Shuts down more than half the nodes of the network
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Correct answer: B. Controls more than half the mining power or staked coins of the network

A fifty-one per cent attack is one in which a single party commands a majority of the resource that decides consensus, which is the mining power in a proof of work chain and the staked coins in a proof of stake chain.

Q7886.Science & TechnologyHard

The rate of tax deducted at source on payment made for the transfer of a virtual digital asset in India is

  1. A.One per cent
  2. B.Two per cent
  3. C.Five per cent
  4. D.Ten per cent
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Correct answer: A. One per cent

From July 2022 a person paying any consideration for the transfer of a virtual digital asset must deduct tax at source at one per cent of that consideration, a provision introduced by the Finance Act of 2022 so that the tax department can see the volume and the parties in…

Q7888.Science & TechnologyEasy

Blockchain is best described as a form of

  1. A.Centralised relational database
  2. B.Distributed ledger technology
  3. C.Cloud storage service
  4. D.Operating system
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Correct answer: B. Distributed ledger technology

A blockchain is a ledger whose identical copies are held by many nodes, with new entries grouped into blocks, each linked to the previous one by its hash, and added only when the network agrees by a consensus rule.

Q7889.Science & TechnologyHard

In a blockchain, the structure that summarises all the transactions in a block into a single hash is called

  1. A.The nonce
  2. B.The Merkle root
  3. C.The genesis block
  4. D.The private key
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Correct answer: B. The Merkle root

The transactions in a block are hashed in pairs, the resulting hashes are hashed in pairs again, and the process repeats until a single hash remains; that hash is the Merkle root, named after Ralph Merkle, and it is stored in the block header.

Q7892.Science & TechnologyEasy

What is the maximum number of bitcoins that can ever exist?

  1. A.One crore
  2. B.Twenty-one million
  3. C.One hundred million
  4. D.There is no upper limit
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Correct answer: B. Twenty-one million

The bitcoin protocol fixes the total supply at twenty-one million coins. New coins enter circulation only as the reward paid to whoever adds a block, and that reward is halved every two hundred and ten thousand blocks, which works out to roughly every four years, so issuance falls geometrically towards…

Q7894.Science & TechnologyEasy

The 2008 white paper that introduced bitcoin was published under which name?

  1. A.Vitalik Buterin
  2. B.Satoshi Nakamoto
  3. C.Nick Szabo
  4. D.Ralph Merkle
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Correct answer: B. Satoshi Nakamoto

The paper titled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System was circulated in 2008 under the name Satoshi Nakamoto, a pseudonym whose owner has never been established, and it set out how a chain of hashed blocks and proof of work could prevent double spending without any trusted third party.

Q7895.Indian States & UTsHard

Which statement about a state Legislative Council is correct?

  1. A.It is dissolved along with the Legislative Assembly every five years
  2. B.It is a permanent house whose members serve six years, with one-third retiring every two years
  3. C.All its members are nominated by the Governor
  4. D.Its strength must be at least half that of the Legislative Assembly
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Correct answer: B. It is a permanent house whose members serve six years, with one-third retiring every two years

Like the Rajya Sabha, a Legislative Council is a continuing body: it is not subject to dissolution, each member holds office for six years, and one-third of the members retire every second year, so the house is renewed in stages.

Q7896.Indian States & UTsMedium

Under Article 170 of the Constitution, the Legislative Assembly of a state shall consist of not more than

  1. A.250 members
  2. B.400 members
  3. C.500 members
  4. D.550 members
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Correct answer: C. 500 members

Article 170 provides that the Legislative Assembly of a state shall consist of not more than five hundred and not fewer than sixty members chosen by direct election from territorial constituencies, with lower minimums permitted by law for small states such as Goa, Sikkim and Mizoram.

Q7899.Indian States & UTsHard

Nagpur holds a special position as

  1. A.The capital of Maharashtra
  2. B.The second capital of Maharashtra, where a session of the legislature is held
  3. C.The seat of the Bombay High Court
  4. D.The summer capital of Madhya Pradesh
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Correct answer: B. The second capital of Maharashtra, where a session of the legislature is held

Under the Nagpur Pact of 1953, agreed when the Vidarbha region joined the new bilingual Bombay State and later Maharashtra, Nagpur was made the second capital of the state and at least one session of the legislature each year, the winter session, is held there.