RRB NTPC GK Questions 2026

Rust of wheat is indeed a fungal disease, caused by species of Puccinia, and it is named from the reddish brown spores that appear in streaks on the leaves and stem.

Bacillary dysentery, also called shigellosis, is caused by bacteria of the genus Shigella, which invade the lining of the large intestine and produce frequent stools with blood and mucus, along with fever and cramps; it spreads through contaminated water and food.

Escherichia coli is a bacterium whose harmful strains reach the body through drinking water or food contaminated with sewage, and the infection they produce shows itself as diarrhoea and abdominal pain, which places it among the classic water-borne illnesses along with cholera, typhoid and hepatitis A. Option A is wrong…

Asia supplies more than half of the world's tin, because the great tin belt of South East Asia runs through Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, and China is the largest single producer.

On Survey of India topographical sheets, railway lines, telegraph and telephone lines, settlement names and boundaries are printed in black, so black is the colour of such man-made linear features.

Kazakhstan is the world's largest producer of uranium and alone accounts for roughly two-fifths of global output. Its uranium comes mainly from the Chu-Sarysu and Syr Darya basins and is won by in-situ leaching, a method that dissolves the metal underground instead of digging it out.

Tropical deciduous forests are India's monsoon forests, and their trees shed their leaves for about six to eight weeks in the dry summer to save water.

Leh, in the cold desert of Ladakh, lies above 3,500 metres in the Himalayas, and its winter temperature falls far below freezing, lower than anywhere else in the list.

In the mesosphere the temperature falls as one goes up, reaching about minus 100 degrees Celsius at the mesopause near 80 km, which makes it the coldest layer of the atmosphere.

Jawaharlal Nehru was arrested on 31 October 1940 for individual satyagraha against India being dragged into the Second World War without the consent of its people, and he was sentenced to four years in prison.

The Indian National Army took 'Ittehad, Etmad, Qurbani' as its motto, and those three words mean unity, faith and sacrifice.

Calderas are the most explosive of the earth's volcanoes, because they erupt so violently that the magma chamber empties and the summit collapses into a wide hollow instead of building a cone.

A committee headed by Motilal Nehru, with eight other members, drafted a constitution for India in 1928, and its report is known as the Nehru Report.

The Lahore session of the Indian National Congress passed the Purna Swaraj resolution on 19 December 1929 and declared complete independence to be the goal of the Congress.

Gandhi gave the famous call of Do or Die on 8 August 1942 at the Gowalia Tank maidan in Bombay, the day the All India Congress Committee passed the Quit India resolution.

Genghis Khan led the Mongols into Transoxiana in 1219, the campaign that destroyed the Khwarazmian empire. The war began after the governor of Otrar killed Mongol traders and the Shah of Khwarazm, Ala-ud-din Muhammad, put Genghis Khan’s envoys to death.

Mosses and lichens are the typical plants of the tundra, the cold treeless belt that lies beyond the coniferous forests of the far north.

Alexander defeated Porus in 326 BCE in the Battle of the Hydaspes, fought on the banks of the Jhelum, the river the Greeks called the Hydaspes.

Kerala shows almost no difference between day and night temperatures because it lies on the coast close to the equator, where the sea keeps the air mild and the humidity stays high.

Gandhi called off the Non-Cooperation and Khilafat Movement after a crowd at Chauri Chaura in Gorakhpur district set fire to a police station on 5 February 1922, in which about twenty-two policemen died.