RRB NTPC GK Questions 2026

He designed Python in the Netherlands and released the first version in 1991, choosing a syntax with indentation instead of braces so that programs would be easy to read; the name comes from a television comedy series and not from the snake.

HyperText Markup Language uses tags to describe how the content of a web page is arranged, such as headings, paragraphs, lists, tables and images, but it has no variables, no conditions and no loops, so it cannot express logic or take decisions; for that reason it is called a markup…

Machine language is the only language the processor understands directly, because each instruction is a pattern of electrical states that is written as a string of zeros and ones; a program in machine language therefore needs no translation and runs fastest, but it is tied to one processor and is…

The correct answer is B, all of the options, because each of the other three statements is a genuine rule of the language and the question asks which of them apply.

Java has exactly eight primitive data types, namely byte, short, int, long, float, double, char and boolean, and long double is not among them; it belongs to C and C++, where it denotes an extended precision floating point number, so the option is a deliberate trap for candidates who have…

An interpreter reads one statement of the source program, translates it and executes it immediately before moving to the next, so it stops at the first error it meets and tells the programmer about that error alone; this makes it convenient for learning and for testing small pieces of code…

The command javac is the Java compiler: it takes a source file with the extension.java, checks its grammar and converts it into a class file containing bytecode, the intermediate code that any Java Virtual Machine can run.

He created C at Bell Laboratories in the early 1970s and used it to rewrite the UNIX operating system, which is why C is called the mother of system programming languages and still underlies most operating systems.

Its name is short for Formula Translation, it was developed by a team under John Backus at IBM and released in 1957, and it was the first language in which a programmer could write ordinary algebraic formulas instead of machine codes, which is why it is counted as the first…

Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar retold the story of King Yayati from the Mahabharata as a novel about desire and its cost, and for it he became the first writer in Marathi to receive the Jnanpith Award.

Ascribed to Tolkappiyar, it belongs to the Sangam age and lays down the rules of Tamil letters, words and poetic composition, including the division of poetry into akam, the inner world of love, and puram, the outer world of war and public life.

Written in the thirteenth century and also called the Bhavartha Dipika, the Dnyaneshwari explains the Gita verse by verse in Marathi poetry, and its importance lies in taking scripture out of Sanskrit and placing it before ordinary readers, which laid the foundation of the Varkari devotional tradition.

Devdas, the story of a young man ruined by his own indecision and by the rigidity of the society around him, is the most often filmed of all Indian novels, and its author also wrote Parineeta, Srikanta and Palli Samaj.

The collection, whose title means an offering of songs, was rendered into English by the poet himself, and the prize that followed in 1913 made Tagore the first Asian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.

He published Anandamath in 1882, and the song Vande Mataram that appears in it became the rallying cry of the freedom movement and was adopted as the national song of India; his other well-known works are Durgeshnandini, Kapalkundala and Devi Chaudhurani.

Tamil tradition holds that assemblies of poets, called Sangams, met under the patronage of the Pandya kings, and Madurai, the Pandya capital, is the seat remembered in the accounts that survive; the poems collected there form the oldest body of Tamil literature.

The Silappadikaram, whose name means the tale of the anklet, follows the merchant Kovalan, his wife Kannagi and the dancer Madhavi, and ends with Kannagi proving her husband's innocence before the Pandya king and bringing fire upon Madurai; she is worshipped afterwards as a goddess of chastity.

In the Sangam poems the word muvendar stands for the three crowned rulers of the Tamil country, the Chera, the Chola and the Pandya, each with a port and an inland centre of power, and the poems praise their gifts and their wars.

He composed one thousand three hundred and thirty couplets arranged in one hundred and thirty-three chapters and grouped in three parts, on virtue, wealth and love; because the work preaches conduct without attaching itself to any one religion, people of every faith in the Tamil country honour it, and it…

Article 243Q requires the Governor to constitute a Nagar Panchayat, by whatever name called, for a transitional area, that is an area moving from rural to urban character.