If you’re preparing for the Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) Non-Technical Popular Categories (NTPC) exam, this post is the perfect resource for you. We’ve compiled the complete General Knowledge questions set of from Shift 1 of the RRB NTPC 11 January, 2021 exam, along with solutions.
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Complete RRB NTPC 11 January, 2021 Shift 1 Paper:
| Exam | RRB NTPC |
| Phase | 1 |
| Date | 11/01/2021 |
| Test Time | 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM |
Below is the complete set of GK questions that appeared in the 11 January, 2021 Shift 1 exam. We’ve provided all the questions from the General Awareness (GK) section along with solutions for each question.
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Q1: When was the Atomic Energy Commission set up to supervise atomic energy
activities in India?
December 1950
January 1948
August 1949
August 1948
Q2: Who wrote the lyrical poem 'My Mother at Sixty-Six'?
Kamala Das
Robert Frost
Rabindranath Tagore
Ashokamitran
Q3: A set of accounts that summarises a country's transactions with the rest
of the world is known as:
Balance of Budget
Capital Investment
Balance of Payments
Budget
Q4: Who won the Women's Singles title in the 2020 Australian Open Tennis
Tournament?
Sofia Kenin
Naomi Osaka
Petra Kvitova
Simona Halep
Q5: Name of the region where "The Great Depression of 1929" started.
South America
North America
Asia
Europe
Q6: In 2018, the Union Government constituted a group of eminent persons to
study the Special Economic Zones (SEZ) Policy of India. The group is chaired
by ______.
Ratan Tata
Baba Kalyani
Anil Ambani
Jaiprakash Gaur
Q7: Who among the following made the remark "South Africa was the making of
the Mahatma"?
Chandran Devanesan
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Jawaharlal Nehru
Bipin Chandra Pal
Q8: Imperial Bank of India was renamed as State Bank of India after
nationalization in the year ________.
1955
1953
1954
1950
Q9: The Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act (FRBMA) was
introduced in the year _______.
2004
2002
2007
2003
Q10: Covalent bonds are formed by the sharing of electrons between two atoms
so that both can achieve a completely filled _______ shell.
proper
centre
outermost
innermost
Q11: Which of the following is a single chip based device that is a complete
processor in itself and is capable of performing arithmetic and logical
operations?
Multiprocessing
Modem
Operating System
Microprocessor
Q12: A topical gel to protect the skin of farmers from pesticides is
developed by the:
National Botanical Research Institute
Indian Institute of Toxicology Research
Indian Agricultural Research Institute
Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine
Q13: The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED)
that was held in Brazil in 1992 is known as:
N S Summit
BRICS Summit
Earth Summit
G-20 Summit
Q14: Who was the flag bearer at the opening ceremony for India at the
2018 Asian Games?
Manpreet Singh
Neeraj Chopra
Rani Rampal
P V Sindhu
Q15: Siraj ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, was defeated in the battle of
Plassey in the year:
1757
1756
1752
1755
Q16: Under which of the following Articles of the Constitution of India has
an Inter-State Council been constituted for coordinating in inter-state
disputes?
Article 263
Article 356
Article 352
Article 19
Q17: The states of Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand and Jharkhand were created in
the year _____.
1999
2000
2001
2002
Q18: Who is known as the founding father of Macroeconomics as a separate
discipline?
Adam Smith
Amartya Sen
Karl Marx
John Maynard Keynes
Q19: Which of the following countries has been removed from the 'Currency
Monitoring List' of major trading partners by the US Treasury Department in
2019?
Japan
South Korea
China
India
Q20: The nanosatellite designed and developed by Indian Institute of
Technology, Kanpur for the purpose to provide data for agriculture and
disaster monitoring was named as:
STUDSAT
Jugnu
ANUSAT
Kalamsat
Q21: Which of the following hills in India are known as the Blue Mountains?
Shivalik Hills
Nilgiri Hills
Garo Hills
Khasi Hills
Q22: Sanchi Stupa is situated near the city of _________.
Agra
Bhopal
Jhansi
Gwalior
Q23: Who among the following is known as the 'Father of Indian Cinema'?
Raj Kapoor
Prithviraj Kapoor
Satyajit Ray
Dadasaheb Phalke
Q24: Blood is a type of ________ tissue.
muscular
connective
epithelial
nervous
Q25: When was the First Round Table Conference started?
October 1929
September 1931
August 1932
November 1930
Q26: Lucknow is famous for which traditional art of embroidery?
Chikankari work
Phulkari
Patchwork
Kantha
Q27: Girnar Hills of Junagadh, Gujarat is famous for ________ Mangoes.
Totapuri
Kesar
Alphonso
Dasheri
Q28: The ability of the eye to focus on both, near and distant objects, by
adjusting its focal length, is called the _______ of the eye.
accommodation
refractiveness
suitability
adjustment
Q29: Ban Ki-Moon, the eighth Secretary General of UN, is from:
North Korea
China
South Korea
Japan
Q30: Kerosene oil rises up in a wick of lantern because of:
Capillarity
Osmosis
Diffusion
Gravitation
Q31: In the context of computers, the time taken to receive data from a
storage device or to obtain data from a peripheral unit is known as _______.
Time slicing
Time sharing
Downtime
Access time
Q32: Who was the first recipient of the Bharat Ratna award and the founder
of Swatantra Party (1959)?
K M Munshi
C Rajagopalachari
Baldev Singh
Jagjivan Ram
Q33: The Subsidiary Alliance was a non-intervention policy devised by
_______ in 1798.
Lord Bentinck
Lord Wellesley
Lord Cornwallis
Lord Irwin
Q34: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was established in:
1967
1957
1966
1955
Q35: What is the full form of SLR in the context of economics?
Statutory Liquidity Ratio
State Liquidity Ratio
Sterilisation Liquidity Ratio
Stocks Liquidity Ratio
Q36: On 23 August 2018, _____ launched the world's first blockchain bond
named 'bond-i'.
World Bank
Swiss Bank
State Bank of India
Reserve Bank of India
Q37: Sugarcane plants are one of the most efficient convertors of _________
into chemical energy.
water
sunlight
juice
air
Q38: Which one is not an e-shopping website from the
following?
www.pepperfry.com
www.jabong.com
www.flipkart.com
www.twitter.com
Q39: The Gateway of India was built in the traditional ________ style to
welcome King George V and Queen Mary to India in 1911.
Western
Indo-Saracenic style
European
Persian
Q40: Modern electrical generator works on _______ principle.
Magnetic Induction
Electromagnetic Induction
Electrical Induction
Electrical Energy
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