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RRB NTPC 2021 Exam Memory Based General Awareness Questions with Answers (Phase-2): RRB NTPC 2021 Exam Phase-2 has been commenced from 16^th January 2021. Today, the exam was conducted for the RRB Non-Technical Popular Categories (NTPC) 35281 Graduate & Under-Graduate Posts in two shifts. RRB NTPC 2021 Exam will be conducted for around 27 lakh Candidates in Phase-1, i.e., from 16^th Jan to 30^th Jan 2021. RRB NTPC 2021 Phase-3 Exam will be conducted from 31st Jan to 12th Feb 2021 for around 28 Lakh candidates.

In this article, we are going to share the important memory based General Awareness, General Knowledge and Current Affairs Questions as per the feedback received by the candidates who have appeared for RRB NTPC 2021 Online Exam. Candidates are advised to definitely cover these questions for scoring high marks in the Exam. Let’s have a look at the Important Questions that are being covered in the RRB NTPC 2021 Exam:

Earth Day is celebrated on:

Answer: 22^nd April

Where is the Marine National Park located?

Answer: 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.

Jantar Mantar is located in:

Answer: Delhi

National Voters' Day is celebrated on:

Answer: 25^th January

Mission Indradhanush Yojana is related to:

Answer: 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.

Saffron City of India:

Answer: Pampore, J&K

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

Answer: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)

Clement Atlee came to India through which commission?

Answer: Simon Commission

Agmark Head Office in India:

Answer: 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)

Which is Plant Hormone?

Answer: 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?

Answer: 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:

Answer: Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu, India

Official Languages of United Nations:

Answer: 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?

Answer: Chlorine

Article 30 of Indian Constitution is related to:

Answer: 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 country is not a permanent member of the UN Security Council?

Answer: 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?

Answer: 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?

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

Visva-Bharati University was established by whom?

Answer: Rabindra Nath Tagore

Which muscles are attached to the hip joint?

Answer: Gluteals, Quadriceps, Iliopsoas, Hamstrings, Groin muscles

Question related to Digital India

Who invented HTML language?

Answer: Tim Berners-Lee

Who will host 2023 Cricket World Cup?

Answer: India

Governor General at the time of Rowlatt Act:

Answer: Lord Chelmsford

Which of the following is not a part of eye?

IRNSS is a:

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

When was IBRD established?

Answer: 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.

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

Answer: 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:

Answer: On 1 July 1955, the Imperial Bank of India became the State Bank of India

Who will host 2024 Summer Olympics?

Answer: Paris

First UN Secretary General:

Answer: Trygve Lie

Largest Gland of the Human Body:

Answer: Liver

Which of the following was not an RBI Governor?

National Pollution Control Day:

Answer: December 2

Rabindra Nath Tagore got Noble Prize for:

Answer: Literature

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

Answer: 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:

Answer: Article 18

First Dive Year Plan Dates:

Answer: 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:

Answer: K2

Panchayati Raj First Started in which Indian State?

Answer: 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?

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

Third Anglo Mysore War was fought between:

Answer: 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.

Red Data Book is for:

Answer: 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?

Answer: 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:

Answer: 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?

Answer: 7

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

Answer: Physics

Pather Panchali Novel Written by:

Answer: Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

First Lok Sabha Speaker:

Answer: Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar

What connects the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean?

Answer: Panama Canal

What is the scientific name of Wheat?

Answer: Triticum

Ujjwala Yojana is related to:

Answer: 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:

Answer: 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:

Answer: Amitabh Kant

IPL 2020 Orange cap:

Answer: KL Rahul

Fundamental Duties are added through which Constitutional Amendment?

Answer: 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.

Who invented the computer?

Answer: Charles Babbage

Newspaper Launched by Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa:

Answer: Indian Opinion

Taklamakan Desert is in:

Answer: The Taklamakan Desert is a desert in Southwest Xinjiang in Northwest China

President of Sri Lanka:

Answer: Gotabaya Rajapaksa

Who Designed Gateway of India?

Answer: George Wittet

First Women President of INC:

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

Author of the Book - India Divided:

Answer: Dr Rajendra Prasad

Origin of Gulf Stream:

Answer: 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?

Answer: B. N. Rau

Who among the following got Padma Vibhushan 2020?

Answer: 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___

Answer: Carl Linnaeus

Maximum no of tigers are found in which national park?

Answer: Kanha National Park

International rice research center is located in:

Answer: Manila, Philippines

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

Answer: Morarji Desai

Keoladeo National Park is located at?

Answer: Bharatpur, Rajasthan

When did Mahatma Gandhi came to India from Africa?

Answer: 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:

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

Answer: Article 32

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

Answer: Hunter Commission

Which of the following policy was introduced by Lord Dalhousie?

Answer: Policy of Annexation

How many terabytes are there in one Petabyte?

Answer: 1000

Which gland secretes Growth hormone?

Answer: Pituitary Gland

Victoria Falls is on which river?

Answer: Zambezi River 

Longest Railway Line is in which State of India?

Answer: 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?

Answer:  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.

Which railway line is parallel to Arabian Sea?

Answer: 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?

Answer: Croatia

Author of the book - “Test Of My Life”:

Answer: Yuvraj Singh

What was the seal on the Harappan Civilization coin?

Answer: Unicorn Seal

Who can summon the parliament for joint sitting?

Answer: President

President can nominate members from which community?

Answer: Anglo Indian

Who gave the term Geography?

Answer: 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).

Hornbill festival is celebrated in which Indian State?

Answer: Nagaland

MGNREGA started in which year?

Answer: 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 districts.

Beti Bachao Beti Padao Scheme’s aim:

Answer: 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?

Answer: 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:

Answer: Ornithology

Champaran Movement Year:

Answer: 1917

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

Answer: Ambika Charan Majumdar

Red Fort of Agra was built by:

Answer: 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:

Answer: Mahatma Gandhi

Full Form of COBOL:

Answer: Common Business Oriented Language

One question from Western Ghat between Mumbai & Pune:

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

Which of the following is a National Organization?

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Which is the longest national highway?

Answer: National Highway 44

National Highway 44 connect which 2 places in India?

Answer: Srinagar in the north and ends in Kanyakumari in the south

Which city is called the city of pearls?

Answer: Hyderabad

What are Giffen Goods?

Answer: 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?

Answer: Direct or alternating electric current

What is article 72 in Indian constitution?

Answer: 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

Where is the headquarters of UN?

Answer: New York, New York, United States

Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana is related to what?

Answer: Gas cylinder

What is Plaster of Paris?

Answer: Calcium Sulfate Hemihydrate

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

Answer: Mortimer Wheeler

What is start-up India related to?

Answer: 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?

Answer: Tokyo, Japan

What is the full form of GNP?

Answer: Gross National Product

Who established the city of Fatehabad?

Answer: Firoz Shah Tughlak

Which country was banned in case of doping?

Answer: Russia

When was the first round table conference held?

Answer: 1930

When did the Portuguese capture Goa?

Answer: 1512

Who wrote Ain-i-Akbari?

Answer: Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak

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

Answer: Javed Akhtar

When is the foundation day of IMD celebrated?

Answer: 15 January

Who was the first Indian woman to win an Oscar?

Answer: Bhanu Athaiya

Who designed the logo of Lokpal?

Answer: Prashant Mishra

Which states of India touch the border of Nepal?

Answer: Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Sikkim

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

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

2. Headquarters of International Court of Justice:

Answer: 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).

3. Who gave the slogan - “Inquilab Zindabad”?

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

4. The rank of India in ‘Ease of Doing Business’ Ranking 2020:

Answer: 63^rd out of 190

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5. Father of Green Revolution in India:

Answer: 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.

6. Which of the following is an Input Device?

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

7. When was Chandrayan 1 Launched?

Answer: 22 October 2008 - Chandrayaan-1, India's first mission to Moon, was launched successfully on October 22, 2008 from SDSC SHAR, Sriharikota. The spacecraft was orbiting around the Moon at a height of 100 km from the lunar surface for chemical, mineralogical and photo-geologic mapping of the Moon.

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

Answer: 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.

9. Formation of Maharashtra and Guajrat:

Answer: 1^st May 1960

10. One question related to the slogan “Jai Jawan Jai Kisan”:

Answer: 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.

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11. Who became the Prime Minister of India in 1977?

Answer: Morarji Desai

12. United Nations Day is celebrated on:

Answer: 24^th October

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13. Order of Zayed Award 2019 was given to:

Answer: PM Narendra Modi

14. Who discovered Electron?

Answer: J.J. Thomson

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

16. Cause of Malaria:

Answer: Malaria is caused by Plasmodium parasites. The parasites are spread to people through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes, called "malaria vectors."

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

Answer: Sri Lanka

18. Chemical formula of Vinegar:

Answer: PH value is  2.5 and Chemical formula is CH₃COOH

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

Answer: Arunachal Pradesh

20. With help of which country Bokaro Steel plant was established?
Answer: Soviet Union