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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

Q8881.Science & TechnologyEasy

The Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) is located near which city?

  1. A.Nainital in Uttarakhand
  2. B.Pune in Maharashtra
  3. C.Hyderabad in Telangana
  4. D.Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala
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Correct answer: B. Pune in Maharashtra

The array stands at Khodad, near Narayangaon, about eighty kilometres north of Pune, on flat land chosen for its low level of man-made radio interference, and it is operated by the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.

Q8882.Indian PolityHard

Which of the following features of the Indian Constitution is NOT drawn from the United States?

  1. A.Judicial review
  2. B.Impeachment of the President
  3. C.Office of the Vice-President
  4. D.Single citizenship
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Correct answer: D. Single citizenship

The United States gives every person two citizenships, of the union and of the state of residence, while India deliberately gives one citizenship for the whole country, so that no state may treat the people of another state as outsiders.

Q8883.Indian PolityEasy

The words socialist, secular and integrity were added to the Preamble of the Constitution by which amendment?

  1. A.Twenty-fourth Amendment, 1971
  2. B.Forty-second Amendment, 1976
  3. C.Forty-fourth Amendment, 1978
  4. D.Fifty-second Amendment, 1985
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Correct answer: B. Forty-second Amendment, 1976

It changed the description of the country from a sovereign democratic republic to a sovereign socialist secular democratic republic, and changed the unity of the nation to the unity and integrity of the nation.

Q8885.Indian PolityMedium

A federation with a strong Centre, the vesting of residuary powers in the Centre and the appointment of Governors by the Centre were taken from

  1. A.Canada
  2. B.Australia
  3. C.Britain
  4. D.Ireland
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Correct answer: A. Canada

Canada is the federation that keeps residuary powers with the centre instead of leaving them with the units, appoints the head of each province from the centre and allows its supreme court an advisory jurisdiction, and all three features were adopted in India.

Q8886.Indian PolityMedium

The provision for suspension of Fundamental Rights during an emergency is traced to the constitution of

  1. A.France
  2. B.the Weimar Republic of Germany
  3. C.Canada
  4. D.the Soviet Union
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Correct answer: B. the Weimar Republic of Germany

The Weimar constitution allowed the President to suspend civil liberties in an emergency, and the Indian provisions under which the operation of certain Fundamental Rights may be restricted during a proclamation of emergency follow that model.

Q8887.Indian PolityMedium

The Concurrent List, the freedom of trade, commerce and intercourse, and the joint sitting of the two Houses of Parliament were borrowed from

  1. A.Australia
  2. B.Ireland
  3. C.the United States
  4. D.Japan
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Correct answer: A. Australia

The Australian constitution has a list of subjects on which both the federal and the state legislatures may make law, and India adopted the device as the Concurrent List in the Seventh Schedule, with central law prevailing in case of conflict.

Q8888.Indian PolityHard

The procedure for amendment of the Constitution and the method of election of members of the Rajya Sabha were drawn from

  1. A.Britain
  2. B.Canada
  3. C.South Africa
  4. D.the Weimar Republic of Germany
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Correct answer: C. South Africa

Two features are traced to the South African constitution: the procedure for amending the Constitution, which combines a special majority with the consent of States for some provisions, and the election of members of the Rajya Sabha by the elected members of the State legislative assemblies through proportional representation by…

Q8890.Indian PolityEasy

The Directive Principles of State Policy in the Indian Constitution are borrowed from the constitution of

  1. A.the United States
  2. B.Ireland
  3. C.Canada
  4. D.Australia
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Correct answer: B. Ireland

The Irish constitution of 1937 carried a chapter of directive principles of social policy, non-justiciable goals addressed to the legislature, and the Constituent Assembly adopted that device as Part IV of our Constitution, along with the nomination of members to the Rajya Sabha and the method of electing the President.

Q8891.Indian PolityEasy

Which of the following is the single largest source of the Constitution of India?

  1. A.Government of India Act, 1935
  2. B.Indian Councils Act, 1909
  3. C.Constitution of the United States
  4. D.Constitution of Ireland
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Correct answer: A. Government of India Act, 1935

About two-thirds of the provisions of the Constitution follow that Act, which supplied the federal scheme with its lists of subjects, the office of the Governor, the structure and powers of the judiciary, the public service commissions, the emergency provisions and most of the administrative detail.

Q8893.Indian HistoryHard

In the Mughal land system, khalisa referred to

  1. A.land whose revenue was reserved for the imperial treasury
  2. B.land granted to religious institutions free of revenue
  3. C.the hereditary homeland of a zamindar in Mughal service
  4. D.land on which no revenue could be assessed because it was barren
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Correct answer: A. land whose revenue was reserved for the imperial treasury

The territory of the empire was divided between khalisa and jagir: the revenue of khalisa land was collected by imperial officers and credited to the central treasury, while the revenue of jagir land was assigned to mansabdars in place of a cash salary.

Q8894.Indian HistoryEasy

Arrange the Mughal administrative units from the largest to the smallest.

  1. A.Sarkar, suba, pargana, mauza
  2. B.Suba, sarkar, pargana, mauza
  3. C.Pargana, suba, mauza, sarkar
  4. D.Suba, pargana, sarkar, mauza
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Correct answer: B. Suba, sarkar, pargana, mauza

The suba was the province, headed by a subedar with his own diwan, bakhshi, sadr and qazi; the sarkar was the district, where the faujdar held charge of law and order and the amalguzar of revenue; the pargana was a group of villages with its shiqdar, amil and qanungo; and…

Q8897.Indian HistoryMedium

What were dagh and chehra in the Mughal military system?

  1. A.Two kinds of jagir assigned to nobles
  2. B.The branding of horses and the descriptive roll of soldiers
  3. C.Two ranks in the provincial revenue service
  4. D.Two forms of land measurement
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Correct answer: B. The branding of horses and the descriptive roll of soldiers

Mansabdars were paid for the troopers they maintained, and the standing temptation was to hire horses and men for the day of inspection and send them away afterwards.

Q8898.Indian HistoryEasy

The dahsala or zabti system of revenue settlement, completed in 1580, is associated with

  1. A.Raja Todar Mal
  2. B.Raja Man Singh
  3. C.Abul Fazl
  4. D.Shah Mansur
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Correct answer: A. Raja Todar Mal

Under his settlement the average produce and the average price of the previous ten years were calculated for every crop in every locality, the demand was fixed at about one-third of that average produce and stated in cash per bigha, and land was measured with the bamboo jarib and the…

Q8899.Indian HistoryMedium

In the mansabdari system, the two numbers attached to a mansab, zat and sawar, stood respectively for

  1. A.personal pay and rank, and the number of horsemen to be maintained
  2. B.the area of the jagir, and the revenue assessed on it
  3. C.the years of service, and the number of elephants kept
  4. D.the amount of cash salary, and the rate of land revenue
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Correct answer: A. personal pay and rank, and the number of horsemen to be maintained

The zat number fixed the salary of the holder and his place in the order of precedence at court, while the sawar number fixed the contingent of cavalry he had to keep ready for the emperor.

Q8900.Indian HistoryAsked in: CTET · 24th Dec 2021Medium

Consider the following statements about the Ain-i-Akbari and choose the correct option. (A) It was written by Abul Fazl. (B) It has rich statistical details about crops, prices, revenues and wages. (C) It deals with the details of the ancestors of Akbar.

  1. A.(A) and (B) are true
  2. B.(B) and (C) are true
  3. C.(A) and (C) are true
  4. D.(A), (B) and (C) are true
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Correct answer: A. (A) and (B) are true

The Ain-i-Akbari was written by Abul Fazl, the courtier and friend of Akbar, and it forms the third volume of the Akbarnama; it is an administrative gazetteer, listing departments and officers, the subas with their sarkars and parganas, measured areas, revenue rates, prices and wages, which is why historians use…