RRB NTPC 2020 Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

The Gobi lies in central Asia, across southern Mongolia and northern China, and it is a cold mid latitude desert: it is dry not because of the trade winds but because it is far from the sea and the Himalayan and other ranges cut off the monsoon, and its winters…

Sukanya Samriddhi was opened in 2015 as part of the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao campaign: a guardian may open an account in the name of a girl child below the age of ten at a post office or a bank, deposit a small sum every year, and draw the maturity…

The International Court of Justice sits in the Peace Palace at The Hague in the Netherlands, and it is the only principal organ of the United Nations not based in New York.

BIMSTEC, the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation, has seven members: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand.

Coal India, the largest coal producing company in the world, was granted Maharatna status in 2011 and remains on the list.

Zoji La, usually written Zojila, is the pass on the Srinagar–Kargil–Leh highway at about 3,528 metres in the Zanskar range, and it is the only road link between the Kashmir valley and Ladakh.

The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Station stands on the coast of the Gulf of Mannar in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu.

Sericulture is the rearing of silkworms to produce raw silk. Mulberry or other host plants are grown, the worms are fed on the leaves until they spin cocoons, and the cocoons are then boiled and reeled into thread.

The first Vande Bharat Express was flagged off on 15 February 2019 on the New Delhi to Varanasi route. It was built at the Integral Coach Factory in Chennai and was known as Train 18 while under development.

The tenth and last human Guru of the Sikhs founded the Khalsa at Anandpur Sahib on Baisakhi day in 1699.

Pinaka is the multi-barrel rocket launcher built for the Indian Army by DRDO's Armament Research and Development Establishment, Pune, and named after the bow of Lord Shiva.

Pattachitra is the old cloth-scroll painting of Odisha, and the name itself explains it: patta means cloth and chitra means picture.

Ubuntu is a free, open-source operating system built on the Linux kernel and based on the Debian distribution. It was first released in 2004 by Canonical, and its name comes from a Nguni Bantu word of southern Africa meaning humanity towards others.

Parliament passed the Environment (Protection) Act in 1986 and it came into force on 19 November 1986. It was enacted soon after the Bhopal gas tragedy of December 1984, when the country needed one general law to fill the gaps left by the earlier pollution laws.

Beriberi is caused by a lack of thiamine, which is vitamin B1. Thiamine helps the body turn carbohydrates into energy and keeps nerves and the heart working, so its shortage weakens muscles and nerves (dry beriberi) or causes swelling and heart failure (wet beriberi).

A person with AB positive blood can receive red cells from every ABO and Rh group, so AB+ is called the universal recipient.

Chelmsford was Viceroy from 1916 to 1921, and the Jallianwala Bagh massacre happened on 13 April 1919, the day of Baisakhi, in Amritsar.

Lichens are used as bio-indicators of air quality because they are extremely sensitive to sulphur dioxide and other gases in the air.

The International Court of Justice sits in the Peace Palace at The Hague in the Netherlands. The ICJ is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, set up in 1945 by the UN Charter, and it settles legal disputes between countries and gives advisory opinions to UN bodies.

Zoji La is the pass on the Srinagar–Leh highway (NH 1) that joins the Kashmir valley with Dras and Ladakh.