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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

Q9181.Books & AuthorsMedium

Which institution selects the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature?

  1. A.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  2. B.The Swedish Academy
  3. C.The Norwegian Nobel Committee
  4. D.The Karolinska Institute
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Correct answer: B. The Swedish Academy

Alfred Nobel's will of 1895 named a different body for each prize, and for literature it named the Academy in Stockholm, founded in 1786 to guard the Swedish language, which still announces the laureate each October.

Q9182.Books & AuthorsAsked in: SSC GD Constable · 2 Dec 2021, Shift 3Easy

Who wrote the book 'The Golden Boat'?

  1. A.Satyajit Ray
  2. B.Munshi Prem Chand
  3. C.Rabindranath Tagore
  4. D.RK Narayan
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Correct answer: C. Rabindranath Tagore

The Golden Boat is the English title of Sonar Tari, the Bengali collection of poems Tagore published in 1894, nineteen years before his Nobel Prize, and its title poem is among the best known in modern Bengali verse.

Q9183.Books & AuthorsEasy

For which collection of poems was Rabindranath Tagore awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913?

  1. A.Gora
  2. B.Gitanjali
  3. C.Chokher Bali
  4. D.Ghare Baire
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Correct answer: B. Gitanjali

The Swedish Academy cited the profoundly sensitive and beautiful verse of Gitanjali, which Tagore had himself rendered into English as Song Offerings and published in 1912 with an introduction by W. B. Yeats; the prize made him the first Asian and the first non-European laureate in any Nobel category.

Q9184.Awards & HonoursHard

In which year was the Gandhi Peace Prize instituted by the Government of India?

  1. A.1969
  2. B.1985
  3. C.1995
  4. D.2001
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Correct answer: C. 1995

The prize was instituted in 1995, the year of the one hundred and twenty-fifth birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, and it is given for social, economic and political transformation through non-violence and other Gandhian methods; it carries one crore rupees, a citation and a piece of traditional handicraft, and it…

Q9185.Awards & HonoursMedium

Who was the first recipient of the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest wartime gallantry award?

  1. A.Major Somnath Sharma
  2. B.Captain Vikram Batra
  3. C.Subedar Joginder Singh
  4. D.Company Quartermaster Havildar Abdul Hamid
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Correct answer: A. Major Somnath Sharma

He was awarded the Param Vir Chakra posthumously for the action at Badgam near Srinagar in November 1947, during the first conflict in Kashmir, and the award itself was instituted in 1950 with effect from 15 August 1947, which is why the first recipient's action precedes the award's announcement.

Q9187.Awards & HonoursMedium

The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, for outstanding research by scientists under the age of forty-five, is awarded by which body?

  1. A.Indian National Science Academy
  2. B.Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
  3. C.Department of Science and Technology
  4. D.Indian Space Research Organisation
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Correct answer: B. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

The prize was instituted in 1958 in memory of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar, the chemist who was the first Director General of the Council and is called the father of research laboratories in India, and it is presented on the Council's foundation day in September.

Q9188.Awards & HonoursMedium

Who received the first Dadasaheb Phalke Award, instituted in 1969?

  1. A.Devika Rani
  2. B.Prithviraj Kapoor
  3. C.Lata Mangeshkar
  4. D.Satyajit Ray
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Correct answer: A. Devika Rani

The actress, remembered for films such as Achhut Kanya and for her part in Bombay Talkies, was the first recipient of the award given for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema, named after Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, who made Raja Harishchandra in 1913 and is called the father of Indian cinema.

Q9190.Awards & HonoursEasy

Teachers' Day in India is observed on the birthday of which former President?

  1. A.Dr Rajendra Prasad
  2. B.Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
  3. C.Dr Zakir Husain
  4. D.Dr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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Correct answer: B. Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Born on 5 September 1888, Radhakrishnan was a philosopher and teacher who became the first Vice President and the second President of India, and the day is observed in his honour at his own suggestion that his birthday be marked as Teachers' Day.

Q9192.Awards & HonoursMedium

The Nari Shakti Puraskar is the renamed form of which earlier award?

  1. A.Stree Shakti Puraskar
  2. B.Rani Lakshmibai Puraskar
  3. C.Devi Ahilya Bai Samman
  4. D.Mahila Kalyan Puraskar
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Correct answer: A. Stree Shakti Puraskar

The honour was instituted in 1999 as the Stree Shakti Puraskar and given in six categories named after women of Indian history, among them Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar, Kannagi, Mata Jijabai, Rani Gaidinliu Zeliang, Rani Lakshmibai and Rani Rudramma Devi; in 2016 those categories were merged and the award was…

Q9193.Awards & HonoursMedium

Which ministry of the Government of India administers the Nari Shakti Puraskar?

  1. A.Ministry of Home Affairs
  2. B.Ministry of Culture
  3. C.Ministry of Women and Child Development
  4. D.Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
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Correct answer: C. Ministry of Women and Child Development

This ministry frames the scheme, invites and screens the nominations and arranges the ceremony at which the President confers the award on 8 March; the same ministry also administers the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar for children.

Q9195.Sports GKMedium

The Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award is given for outstanding achievement in

  1. A.athletics
  2. B.adventure on land, sea and air
  3. C.para sports
  4. D.sports medicine
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Correct answer: B. adventure on land, sea and air

Instituted in 1994 and named after the Sherpa mountaineer who reached the summit of Everest in 1953 with Edmund Hillary, this award recognises outstanding achievement in adventure activities, with separate categories for land adventure such as mountaineering, water adventure such as sailing and rafting, and air adventure such as paragliding…

Q9196.Sports GKHard

Under the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution of India, the subject of sports falls in

  1. A.the Union List
  2. B.the State List
  3. C.the Concurrent List
  4. D.none of the three lists
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Correct answer: B. the State List

Entry 33 of the State List in the Seventh Schedule covers sports, entertainments and amusements, so the primary responsibility for sport rests with the state governments, which is why state sports departments and state associations run most competitions and facilities.

Q9197.Sports GKHard

The Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Trophy is awarded to

  1. A.the best performing state in the National Games
  2. B.the best overall performing university in inter-university tournaments
  3. C.the best school in the Khelo India Youth Games
  4. D.the best coach of the year
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Correct answer: B. the best overall performing university in inter-university tournaments

The trophy was instituted in 1956 to 1957 and is a rolling award given each year to the university with the best overall record across inter-university competitions, named after the first education minister of independent India.

Q9198.Sports GKMedium

The highest sporting honour of India, earlier called the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, was renamed in 2021 after

  1. A.Major Dhyan Chand
  2. B.Milkha Singh
  3. C.K. D. Jadhav
  4. D.C. K. Nayudu
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Correct answer: A. Major Dhyan Chand

The award, instituted in 1991 to 1992 as the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna and first given to the chess player Viswanathan Anand, was renamed the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award in 2021 in honour of the hockey player who won Olympic gold with India in 1928, 1932 and 1936.