16th JAN. to 28th Jan. 2021. RRB NTPC All Shift Exam General Awareness/ Current Affairs Questions.

16th JAN. to 28th Jan. 2021. RRB NTPC All Shift Exam General Awareness/ Current Affairs Questions.

RRB NTPC 2020-21 Exam Memory Based General Awareness (GA) Questions with Ans:-

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 RRB NTPC 2021 Exam Memory Based General Awareness (GA) Questions with Answers (Phase-2): Check GK & Current Affairs Questions asked in RRB NTPC 2021 CBT

 

®Earth Day is celebrated on:

Ans.:- 22nd April

®Jantar Mantar is located in?

Ans.:- Delhi

®National Voters’ Day is celebrated on?

Ans.:- 25th January

®Mission Indradhanush Yojana is related to?

Ans.:- Mission Indradhanush is a health mission of the Government of India. It was launched by Union Health Minister J. P. Nadda on 25 December 2014. The scheme this seeks to drive towards 90% full immunisation coverage of India and sustain the same by year 2020.

®Where is the Marine National Park located ?

Ans.:- Gujarat – Marine National Park in the Gulf of Kutch is situated on the southern shore of the Gulf of Kutch in the Devbhumi Dwarka district of Gujarat state, India.

®Saffron City of India ?

Ans.:- Pampore, J&K

®Five Year Plan has been taken from which country’s constitution ?

Ans.:- The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)

®Clement Atlee came to India through which commission ?

Ans.:- Simon Commission

®Agmark Head Office in India ?

Ans.:- The AGMARK Head Office at Faridabad (Haryana) is legally enforced in India by the Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Act of 1937 (and amended in 1986)

®Official Languages of United Nations ?

Ans.:- There are six official languages of the UN. These are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.

®Which chemical gas is a greenish yellow gas ?

Ans.:- Chlorine

®Article 30 of Indian Constitution is related to?

Ans.:- Article 30 of the Indian Constitution states the right of minorities to establish and administer educational institutions. It says: “All minorities, whether based on religion or language, shall have the right to establish and administer educational institutions of their choice.”

®Which is Plant Hormone ?

Ans.:- Plant hormones (also known as phytohormones) are organic substances that regulate plant growth and development. Plants produce a wide variety of hormones, including auxins, gibberellins (GA), abscisic acid (ABA), cytokinins (CK), salicylic acid (SA), ethylene (ET), jasmonates (JA), brassinosteroids (BR), and peptides.

®Pattiseema Lift Irrigation Project is part of which river ?

Ans.:- Pattiseema Lift Irrigation Project is a river interlinking project which connects Godavari River to Krishna River.

®Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) is in ?

Ans.:- Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu, India

®Which country is not a permanent member of the UN Security Council ?

Ans.:- The Security Council consists of ten elected members, and five permanent members–China, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and the Russian Federation.

®Which monument made in remembrance of Indian Soldiers fought in the First World War?

Ans.:- A new statue commemorating the role of Indian soldiers in World War I was unveiled at Villers Guislain, 200 km from Paris, to mark Armistice Day when the war ended in 1918 and to highlight the contribution of the Indian soldiers to the freedom of France in the Great War.

®Adi Granth is the holy book of which people?

Ans.:- Adi Granth, also called Granth or Granth Sahib, the sacred scripture of Sikhism, a religion of India.

®Visva-Bharati University was established by whom?

Ans.:- Rabindra Nath Tagore

®Which muscles are attached to the hip joint?

Ans.:- Gluteals, Quadriceps, Iliopsoas, Hamstrings, Groin muscles

®Question related to Digital India

Ans.:-

®Who invented HTML language?

Ans.:- Tim Berners-Lee

®Who will host 2023 Cricket World Cup?

Ans.:- India

®When was IBRD established ?

Ans.:- The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development is an international financial institution, established in 1944 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, that is the lending arm of World Bank Group.

®Governor General at the time of Rowlatt Act ?

Ans.:- Lord Chelmsford

®Which of the following is not a part of eye ?

Ans.:-

® IRNSS is a ?

Ans.:- IRNSS is an independent regional navigation satellite system being developed by India (ISRO).

®Which of the following takes out the impurities from the body ?

Ans.:- Nephron, functional unit of the kidney, the structure that actually produces urine in the process of removing waste and excess substances from the blood.

®Name of SBI before 1955 ?

Ans.:- On 1 July 1955, the Imperial Bank of India became the State Bank of India

®Who will host 2024 Summer Olympics ?

Ans.:- Paris

®First UN Secretary General ?

Ans.:- Trygve Lie

®Largest Gland of the Human Body?

Ans.:- Liver

®Which of the following was not an RBI Governor?

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®National Pollution Control Day ?

Ans.:- December 2

®Rabindra Nath Tagore got Noble Prize for ?

Ans.:- Literature

®Panchayati Raj First Started in which Indian State ?

Ans.:- Rajasthan – The Panchayat Raj System was first adopted by the state of Rajasthan in Nagaur district on 2nd Oct 1959.

®Which of the following states does not share a boundary with Nepal ?

Ans.:- Indian states that share borders with Nepal are Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Sikkim, West Bengal and Bihar.

®Third Anglo Mysore War was fought between ?

Ans.:- The Third Anglo–Mysore War (1790–1792) was a conflict in South India between the Kingdom of Mysore and the East India Company, Kingdom of Travancore, Maratha Empire, and the Nizam of Hyderabad.

®Which of the following is present in the 8th Schedule of the Indian Constitution ?

Ans.:- The Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India lists the official languages of the Republic of India.

®Article in Indian Constitution for Abolishment of Titles Article ?

Ans.:- Article 18

®First Dive Year Plan Dates ?

Ans.:- In July 1951, the Planning Commission issued the draft outline of the First Five Year Plan for the period April 1951 to March 1956.

®2nd Highest Peak Of Himalaya ?

Ans.:- K2

®Red Data Book is for  ?

Ans.:- The Red Data Book is the state document established for documenting rare and endangered species of animals, plants and fungi as well as some local sub-species that exist within the territory of the state or country

®Which of the following is an operating system ?

Ans.:- The three most common operating systems for personal computers are Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux. Modern operating systems use a graphical user interface, or GUI.

®RBI Governor 2020 ?

Ans.:- Shaktikanta Das – Shri Shaktikanta Das, IAS Retd., former Secretary, Department of Revenue and Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India assumed charge as the 25th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India effective December 12, 2018.

®How many Nuclear Power Plants are there in India ?

Ans.:- 7

®In 1921, Albert Einstein got a noble prize in which field ?

Ans.:- Physics

®Ujjwala Yojana is related to ?

Ans.:- Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana is a scheme of the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas for providing LPG connections to women from Below Poverty Line (BPL) households.

®The inventor of ‘C’ Computer language ?

Ans.:- Dennis Ritchie – C, computer programming language developed in the early 1970s by American computer scientist Dennis M. Ritchie at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T Bell Laboratories).

®CEO of NITI Aayog ?

Ans.:- Amitabh Kant

®Pather Panchali Novel Written by ?

Ans.:- Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

®First Lok Sabha Speaker ?

Ans.:- Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar

®What connects the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean ?

Ans.:- Panama Canal

®What is the scientific name of Wheat ?

Ans.:- Triticum

®Who invented the computer ?

Ans.:- Charles Babbage

®Newspaper Launched by Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa ?

Ans.:- Indian Opinion

®Taklamakan Desert is in ?

Ans.:- The Taklamakan Desert is a desert in Southwest Xinjiang in Northwest China

®IPL 2020 Orange cap  ?

Ans.:- KL Rahul

®Fundamental Duties are added through which Constitutional Amendment ?

Ans.:- The Fundamental Duties of citizens were added to the Constitution by the 42nd Amendment in 1976, upon the recommendations of the Swaran Singh Committee that was constituted by the Government.

®President of Sri Lanka ?

Ans.:- Gotabaya Rajapaksa

®Who Designed Gateway of India ?

Ans.:- George Wittet

®Origin of Gulf Stream ?

Ans.:- The Gulf Stream is a powerful, warm, and swift Atlantic Ocean current that originates at the tip of Florida, and follows the eastern coastlines of the United States and Newfoundland before crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

®Who was the constitutional advisor to the constituent assembly ?

Ans.:- B. N. Rau

®Who among the following got Padma Vibhushan 2020 ?

Ans.:- 7 Padma Vibhushan in 2020- George Fernandes, Arun Jaitley, Anerood Jugnauth, Mary Kom, Chhannulal Mishra, Sushma Swaraj and Vishwesha Teertha.

®The binomial name Homo sapiens was coined by ?

Ans.:- Carl Linnaeus

®First Women President of INC ?

Ans.:- Annie Besant was the first woman President of the Indian National Congress.

®Author of the Book – India Divided ?

Ans.:- Dr Rajendra Prasad

®Maximum no of tigers are found in which national park ?

Ans.:- Kanha National Park

®International rice research center is located in ?

Ans.:- Manila, Philippines

®When did Mahatma Gandhi came to India from Africa ?

Ans.:- January 9, 1915 – After over 21 years stay in South Africa, Gandhi returned to India on January 9, 1915 with his wife Kasturba.

®Ebay bill is related to ?

Ans:-

®Supreme Court issue writs according to which article of Indian Constitution?

Ans.:- Article 32

®Who was India’s Prime Minister in 1977-79 ?

Ans.:- Morarji Desai

®Keoladeo National Park is located at ?

Ans.:- Bharatpur, Rajasthan

®How many terabytes are there in one Petabyte ?

Ans.:- 1000

®Which gland secretes Growth hormone ?

Ans.:- Pituitary Gland

®After Jallianwala Bagh Massacre which commission was formed by British Government ?

Ans.:- Hunter Commission

®Which of the following policy was introduced by Lord Dalhousie ?

Ans.:- Policy of Annexation

®Victoria Falls is on which river ?

Ans.:- Zambezi River 

®Longest Railway Line is in which State of India ?

Ans.:- Assam – India’s longest train journey begins at Dibrugarh in Assam, and ends at the country’s southernmost point Kanyakumari, in Tamil Nadu.

®Which states are connected by golden triangle tourism ?

Ans.:-  Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan – India’s Golden Triangle is the route between Delhi, Agra and Jaipur. It’s named for the almost-equilateral triangle that the three cities make when plotted on a map. Starting in the capital, Delhi, and taking in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.

®What was the seal on the Harappan Civilization coin ?

Ans.:- Unicorn Seal

®Who can summon the parliament for joint sitting ?

Ans.:- President

®Which railway line is parallel to Arabian Sea ?

Ans.:- Konkan Railways – The Konkan Railways passes through 3 states of India – Goa, Maharashtra and Karnataka. It runs along the Indian west coast parallel to Arabian Sea and Western Ghats.

®Kuna is the currency of which country ?

Ans.:- Croatia

®Author of the book – “Test Of My Life”:

Ans.:- Yuvraj Singh

®President can nominate members from which community ?

Ans.:- Anglo Indian

®Who gave the term Geography ?

Ans.:- Eratosthenese – The term geography was first coined by Eratosthenese, a Greek scholar (276-194 BC.). The word has been derived from two roots from Greek language geo (earth) and graphos (description).

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®Beti Bachao Beti Padao Scheme’s aim ?

Ans.:- The Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP) Scheme aims to address the critical issue of declining Child Sex Ratio (CSR). The specific objectives of the scheme are: prevent gender biased sex selective elimination, ensure survival and protection of the girl child and ensure education and participation of the girl child through coordinated and convergent efforts.

®Rio Climate Exchange Program was held in which year ?

Ans.:- 1992 – The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit, the Rio Summit, the Rio Conference, and the Earth Summit (Portuguese: ECO92), was a major United Nations conference held in Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June in 1992.

®Study of Birds is called ?

Ans.:- Ornithology

®Hornbill festival is celebrated in which Indian State ?

Ans.:- Nagaland

®MGNREGA started in which year ?

Ans.:- 2006 – The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was notified through the Gazette of India (Extraordinary) Notification dated September 7, 2005; it came into force on February 2, 2006 in 200 backward distri

®Champaran Movement Year ?

Ans.:- 1917

®Full Form of COBOL:

Ans.:- Common Business Oriented Language

®One question from Western Ghat between Mumbai & Pune?

Ans.:-

®Food Digestive System in series-> Ingestion, Ejestion, Digestion?

Ans.:-

®Which of the following is a National Organization

Ans.:-?

®What are Giffen Goods ?

Ans.:- Giffen good is a product that people consume more of as the price rises and vice versa—violating the basic law of demand in microeconomics

®What is measured using Voltmeter ?

Ans.:- Direct or alternating electric current

®What is article 72 in Indian constitution ?

Ans.:- Article 72 provides the President with the power to grant pardons, reprieves, respites, or remissions of punishment or to suspend, remit or commute the sentence of any person convicted of any offence

®Which is the longest national highway ?

Ans.:- National Highway 44

®The Lucknow session of Indian National Congress that took place in 1916 was presided by ?

Ans.:- Ambika Charan Majumdar

®Red Fort of Agra was built by ?

Ans.:- Shah Jahan – The construction of the Agra fort was started around 1565, when the initial structures were built by the Mughal Emperor Akbar, and subsequently taken over by his grandson Shah Jahan, who added most of the marble creations to the fort.

®The slogan “Do or Die” given by ?

Ans.:- Mahatma Gandhi

®National Highway 44 connect which 2 places in India ?

Ans.:- Srinagar in the north and ends in Kanyakumari in the south

®Which city is called the city of pearls ?

Ans.:- Hyderabad

®What is start-up India related to ?

Ans.:- intended to catalyse startup culture and build a strong and inclusive ecosystem for innovation and entrepreneurship in India

®Where is the United Nations University Located ?

Ans.:- Tokyo, Japan

®What is the full form of GNP ?

Ans.:- Gross National Product

®Who established the city of Fatehabad ?

Ans.:- Firoz Shah Tughlak

®Which country was banned in case of doping ?

Ans.:- Russia

®Where is the headquarters of UN ?

Ans.:- New York, New York, United States

®Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana is related to what ?

Ans.:- Gas cylinder

®What is Plaster of Paris ?

Ans.:- Calcium Sulfate Hemihydrate

®Which of the following is an Input Device ?

Ans.:- Examples of input devices include keyboards, mouse, scanners, cameras, joysticks, and microphones.

®When was Chandrayan 1 Launched  ?

Ans.:-  22 October 2008

® Headquarters of International Court of Justice ?

Ans.:- Hague – The International Court of Justice, also known as the World Court, is the main judicial organ of the UN. It was established in June 1945 by the Charter of the United Nations and began work in April 1946. The seat of the Court is at the Peace Palace in The Hague (Netherlands).

®Who gave the slogan – “Inquilab Zindabad” ?

Ans.:- Maulana Hasrat Mohani in 1921, it was popularized by Bhagat Singh.

®Who won the award, Richard Dawkins award for the first time?

Ans.:- Javed Akhtar

®When is the foundation day of IMD celebrated ?

Ans.:- 15 January

®Who was the head of the Archaeological Survey of India in 1944?

Ans.:- Mortimer Wheeler

®When was the first round table conference held ?

Ans.:- 1930

®When did the Portuguese capture Goa ?

Ans.:- 1512

®Who was the first Indian woman to win an Oscar ?

Ans.:- Bhanu Athaiya

®Who designed the logo of Lokpal ?

Ans.:- Prashant Mishra

®Who wrote Ain-i-Akbari ?

Ans.:- Abu’l-Fazl ibn Mubarak

®Which states of India touch the border of Nepal?

Ans.:- Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Sikkim

® When did Mahatma Gandhi came back to India from South Africa ?

Ans.:- January 9, 1915 – After over 21 years stay in South Africa, Gandhi returned to India on January 9, 1915 with his wife Kasturba.

®Father of Green Revolution in India ?

Ans.:- M.S. Swaminathan – In the late 1960s, M.S. Swaminathan, a plant geneticist, helped design and lead the Green Revolution, a huge development effort that in just a few years brought food self-sufficiency to India, which had suffered from deadly famines for decades.

®The rank of India in ‘Ease of Doing Business’ Ranking 2020

Ans.:- 63rd out of 190

®Which of the following is an essential part to run a computer ?

Ans.:- The processor is also known as the Central Processing Unit (CPU). This component provides the computing power within your computer system. The CPU can be seen as the ‘brains’ of the computer.

®Formation of Maharashtra and Guajrat ?

Ans.:- 1st May 1960

®One question related to the slogan “Jai Jawan Jai Kisan” ?

Ans.:- Jai Jawaan Jai Kisaan was a slogan of the second Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1965 at a public gathering at Ramlila Maidan, Delhi.

®Which of the following Country does not share a land boundary with?

Ans.:- Sri Lanka does not share land boundary with India. Sri Lanka is an island nation south of India in the Indian Ocean.

®United Nations Day is celebrated on ?

Ans.:- 24th October

® Order of Zayed Award 2019 was given to ?

Ans.:- PM Narendra Modi

® Who discovered Electron ?

Ans.:- J.J. Thomson

®According to census 2011 which state has the lowest population density?

Ans.:- Arunachal Pradesh

®Which was the first supercomputer of India?

Ans : Param Shivay

vWhich country was the second-largest producer of Petroleum in the world in 2019?

Ans : Saudi Arabia

® Which is the largest victory tower in India?

Ans : The Fateh Burj

®Up to October 2019, how many articles were there in the Indian Constitution?

Ans : 395

®Where is the Bhimrao Ambedkar airport?

Ans : Maharashtra

® What are the UN 2030 megacities in India?

Ans : Mumbai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad

®Which is the first dam in India?

Ans : Radhanagari Dam

®With help of which country Bokaro Steel plant was established ?
Ans.:- Soviet Union

®What is the full form of CSIR?

Ans : Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR)

®Which queen of Ahmednagar fought with Akbar?

Ans : Chand Bibi

®Cause of Malaria ?

Ans.:- Malaria is caused by Plasmodium parasites.

®Which of the following countries does not share a land boundary with India ?

Ans.:- Sri Lanka

®Chemical formula of Vinegar ?

Ans.:- PH value is  2.5 and Chemical formula is CH₃COOH

®Who became the Prime Minister of India in 1977 ?

Ans.:- Morarji Desai

®How many bones are there in the Human Body?

Ans : 206

® What is odometer?

Ans : It is an instrument for measuring the distance travelled by a wheeled vehicle.

®Where is the first floating school in India?

Ans : Loktak Lake in Manipur

®Where did the Khilafat Movement take place?

Ans : Lucknow

®When was demonetization launched in India?

Ans : 8 November 2016

®Tokyo is situated on the bank of which river?

Ans : Sumida River

® Who got the purple cap in IPL 2020?

Ans : Kagiso Rabada

® When was the battle of Panipat fought?

Ans : 14 January 1761

®What is the full form of CLU?

Ans : Computer Logic Unit

®Where is the headquarter of RBI?

Ans : Mumbai

® When was the EXIM Bank was established?

Ans : 1982

®The president of UN belongs to which country?

Ans : Turkey

®Who is the first CEO of Railway Board?

Ans : Vinod Kumar Yadav

®Who is the chairman of SEBI?

Ans : Ajay Tyagi

®What is the full form of SAARC?

Ans : South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation

®Who is the writer of mudrarakshasa?

Ans : Vishakhadatta

®What is the formula of Ruby Gem stone?

Ans : aluminium oxide with chromium, Al2O3:Cr

®Where is the lingraj temple?

Ans : Bhubaneswar, Odisha

®Who has passed the widow remarriage act?

Ans : drafted by Lord Dalhousie and passed by Lord Canning

®When was the air pollution act established in India?

Ans : 1981

®What controls the function of the computer?

Ans : The control unit

®What is the full form of ALU?

Ans : arithmetic logic unit (ALU)

®What is the number of caves in Ellora?

Ans : 34 monasteries

®CRY is related to?

Ans : Child Rights and You is an Indian non-governmental organization that works towards ensuring happier childhoods for all children

®What is the full form of IFSC?

Ans : Indian Financial System Code

® What is the name of the DG of CSIR?

Ans : Shekhar C. Mande

®What is the SI unit of energy?

Ans :Joule

®When was the 4th anglo Mysore war held?

Ans : 1799

® Which article state the Fundamental article?

Ans : Articles 12-35 (Part III of Indian Constitution)

®What is the outer layer of the skin called?

Ans : Epidermis

® What is the duration of Panchayat?

Ans : 5 years

®What is el nino?

Ans : El Niño is the warm phase of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation and is associated with a band of warm ocean water that develops in the central and east-central equatorial Pacific, including the area off the Pacific coast of South America

® What is the outermost layer of earth called?

Ans : Crust

®What is the chemical name of salt?

Ans : NaCl

®Which organization looks after the World Environment programme?

Ans : United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

®Who was the governor-general at the time of the Bengal partition?

Ans : Lord Curzon

® When was the Belgaum session held?

Ans : 1924

®Where is the Bombay stock exchange located?

Ans : Dalal Street, Mumbai

® Which national park has the maximum number of Rhinoceros?

Ans : Kaziranga National Park

® Which Scientist got Padma Bhushan in 2019?

Ans : Nambi Narayanan

®Which strait is between Russia and the USA?

Ans : Bering Strait

® Who publishes the world happiness index?

Ans : United Nation

®Where was the Indian Muslim League established in India?

Ans : Lucknow in September 1906

®Which is the largest delta in the world?

Ans : Ganges Delta

®Who is the current vice president of India?

Ans : M. Venkaiah Naidu

®How many symbols are there in hexadecimal numbers?

Ans : 16

®Who won the FIFA world cup maximum number of times?

Ans : national team of Brazil

®What is the reason of Blood Clotting in Humans?

Ans : Prothrombin

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