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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

Q10602.Art & CultureHard

The modern school of Gond painting in Madhya Pradesh, known as Jangarh Kalam, is named after

  1. A.Jangarh Singh Shyam
  2. B.Bhuri Bai
  3. C.Sita Devi
  4. D.Ganga Devi
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Correct answer: A. Jangarh Singh Shyam

Jangarh Singh Shyam of Patangarh in Madhya Pradesh took the Gond wall and floor decoration on to paper and canvas, filling his animals, trees and deities with dots and dashes, and the manner he created is called Jangarh Kalam after him; a generation of Gond painters followed it.

Q10603.Art & CultureHard

In Pattachitra, the white colour of the traditional palette is obtained from

  1. A.Conch shell
  2. B.Chalk powder alone
  3. C.Lime and milk
  4. D.Rice flour
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Correct answer: A. Conch shell

The Pattachitra palette is made at home from natural matter: white is ground from the conch shell, black from the soot of a lamp, red from hingula, yellow from haritala and blue from indigo, and the gum of the wood apple binds them to the cloth, which is finally given…

Q10604.Art & CultureHard

Sohrai and Khovar painting, made on mud walls at harvest and at marriages, belongs to

  1. A.Jharkhand
  2. B.Assam
  3. C.Uttarakhand
  4. D.Chhattisgarh
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Correct answer: A. Jharkhand

Sohrai is the harvest and cattle festival painting and Khovar the marriage painting of the Hazaribagh belt of Jharkhand, made by women who brush on coloured earths or scratch through a top layer of white clay to reveal the dark layer beneath, a technique called sgraffito; the tradition carries a…

Q10607.Art & CultureMedium

Phad painting, carried from village to village by Bhopa singers who sing the epic it illustrates, belongs to

  1. A.Rajasthan
  2. B.Gujarat
  3. C.Telangana
  4. D.West Bengal
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Correct answer: A. Rajasthan

Phad is a long scroll painted on cloth in the Shahpura and Bhilwara area of Rajasthan, traditionally by the Joshi families, and it carries the epics of the folk deities Pabuji and Devnarayan; the Bhopa priest-singer unrolls it at night and sings the story before it.

Q10611.Art & CultureEasy

The word Pattachitra is formed from two words that mean

  1. A.Temple and story
  2. B.Cloth and picture
  3. C.Palm leaf and line
  4. D.Wall and colour
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Correct answer: B. Cloth and picture

Patta means cloth and chitra means picture, so Pattachitra is literally painting on cloth, made on a canvas of layers of cloth pasted together with tamarind seed paste and chalk and rubbed smooth with a stone.

Q10612.Art & CultureMedium

In Warli painting, the human figure is drawn as

  1. A.Two triangles joined at their tips with a circle for the head
  2. B.A square body with a triangular head
  3. C.A single circle with four lines
  4. D.Two squares joined at a corner
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Correct answer: A. Two triangles joined at their tips with a circle for the head

The Warli painter builds everything from three shapes: the circle for the sun and the moon, the triangle for the mountain and the pointed tree, and the square for the sacred enclosure.

Q10615.Environment & EcologyMedium

The half-life of iodine-131, the isotope released in reactor accidents, is about:

  1. A.8 hours
  2. B.8 days
  3. C.8 months
  4. D.8 years
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Correct answer: B. 8 days

Iodine-131 has a half-life of roughly eight days, which is why the danger from it after an accident is intense but short-lived, and why potassium iodide tablets are distributed at once so that the thyroid gland is saturated with ordinary iodine and absorbs less of the radioactive form.

Q10620.Environment & EcologyEasy

Which of the following is the largest source of thermal pollution of surface water?

  1. A.Cooling water from power stations
  2. B.Municipal sewage
  3. C.Agricultural run-off
  4. D.Plastic waste
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Correct answer: A. Cooling water from power stations

Thermal and nuclear power stations draw large volumes of water to condense steam and return it several degrees warmer, which makes them the single largest source of waste heat in rivers, lakes and coastal waters.