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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

Q7941.Computer AwarenessMedium

Which of the following is an advantage of an RFID tag over a printed barcode?

  1. A.It is cheaper to print than a barcode
  2. B.It can be read without line of sight and many tags at a time
  3. C.It can store only a fixed serial number
  4. D.It works only when the object is stationary
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Correct answer: B. It can be read without line of sight and many tags at a time

A barcode must be presented squarely to a scanner, one item at a time, and a torn or dirty label fails.

Q7942.Computer AwarenessHard

Which technique does Bluetooth use to reduce interference in the crowded 2.4 GHz band?

  1. A.Time division multiplexing on a single fixed channel
  2. B.Frequency hopping spread spectrum
  3. C.Wavelength division multiplexing
  4. D.Amplitude modulation on a licensed band
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Correct answer: B. Frequency hopping spread spectrum

A Bluetooth link does not stay on one frequency. Master and slave agree on a pseudo random sequence and jump together between the narrow channels of the 2.4 GHz band many hundreds of times a second.

Q7945.Computer AwarenessEasy

Bluetooth technology is named after

  1. A.a Danish king who united warring tribes
  2. B.the inventor of the first wireless headset
  3. C.a blue coloured tooth shaped antenna
  4. D.a town in Sweden where it was invented
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Correct answer: A. a Danish king who united warring tribes

The technology is named after Harald Gormsson, the tenth century king of Denmark nicknamed Bluetooth, who brought the Danish tribes under one rule.

Q7946.Computer AwarenessMedium

India's FASTag system for electronic toll collection is based on which technology?

  1. A.Bluetooth Low Energy
  2. B.Passive ultra high frequency RFID
  3. C.Infrared data association link
  4. D.Global positioning system only
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Correct answer: B. Passive ultra high frequency RFID

A FASTag is a battery free RFID sticker pasted on the inside of the windscreen. An overhead reader at the toll plaza energises it, reads the identity number, matches it with the linked prepaid wallet or bank account and debits the toll while the vehicle keeps moving.

Q7947.Computer AwarenessMedium

A passive RFID tag draws the power it needs from

  1. A.an internal lithium battery
  2. B.the radio signal of the reader
  3. C.a solar cell on the tag
  4. D.the magnetic field of the earth
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Correct answer: B. the radio signal of the reader

A passive tag is only a chip and an antenna. When it enters the field of a reader, the incoming radio waves induce a current in the antenna, that current powers the chip for an instant, and the chip replies by modulating the reflected signal, a method called backscatter.

Q7950.Computer AwarenessMedium

Which IEEE standard is associated with Bluetooth?

  1. A.IEEE 802.3
  2. B.IEEE 802.11
  3. C.IEEE 802.15.1
  4. D.IEEE 802.16
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Correct answer: C. IEEE 802.15.1

The 802.15 group of standards covers wireless personal area networks, and 802.15.1 is the one that was drawn from the Bluetooth specification; the technology itself is now developed by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group.

Q7953.Books & AuthorsHard

The Children's Book Trust was founded in 1957 by

  1. A.Anant Pai
  2. B.K. Shankar Pillai
  3. C.Sudha Murty
  4. D.Ruskin Bond
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Correct answer: B. K. Shankar Pillai

The cartoonist Shankar, famous for his political cartoons and for Shankar's Weekly, founded the Children's Book Trust in New Delhi in 1957 to publish good and affordable books for Indian children, and also started the Shankar's International Children's Competition for painting and writing as well as the doll museum in…

Q7954.Books & AuthorsMedium

Which of the following fables is attributed to Aesop?

  1. A.The Tortoise and the Hare
  2. B.The Blue Jackal
  3. C.The Monkey and the Crocodile
  4. D.The Talkative Tortoise
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Correct answer: A. The Tortoise and the Hare

The race in which the slow tortoise beats the overconfident hare is one of the best known fables attributed to Aesop of ancient Greece, along with the fox and the grapes, the boy who cried wolf and the lion and the mouse.

Q7958.Books & AuthorsEasy

Mowgli, Baloo and Shere Khan are characters created by

  1. A.Rudyard Kipling
  2. B.Robert Louis Stevenson
  3. C.Roald Dahl
  4. D.Kenneth Grahame
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Correct answer: A. Rudyard Kipling

Mowgli the boy raised by wolves, Baloo the bear, Bagheera the panther, Kaa the python and Shere Khan the tiger are the characters of The Jungle Book, written by Rudyard Kipling and set in the forests of central India.

Q7959.Books & AuthorsMedium

International Children's Book Day is observed on 2 April to mark the birthday of

  1. A.the Brothers Grimm
  2. B.Hans Christian Andersen
  3. C.Lewis Carroll
  4. D.Rudyard Kipling
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Correct answer: B. Hans Christian Andersen

The Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen was born on 2 April, and the International Board on Books for Young People chose that date for International Children's Book Day; the same body gives the Hans Christian Andersen Award, often called the little Nobel of children's literature.