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 2 of the RRB NTPC 12 January, 2021 exam, along with solutions.
This will help you understand the exam pattern, identify key topics, and assess your preparation effectively. You can also practice this to check your preparation for the exam.
Complete RRB NTPC 12 January, 2021 Shift 2 Paper:
| Exam | RRB NTPC |
| Phase | 1 |
| Date | 12/01/2021 |
| Test Time | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM |
Below is the complete set of GK questions that appeared in the 12 January, 2021 Shift 2 exam. We’ve provided all the questions from the General Awareness (GK) section along with solutions for each question.
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Q1: Which state has the largest number of Cotton mills and most of them
produce yarn rather than cloth?
Tamil Nadu
Karnataka
Gujarat
Maharashtra
Q2: Manora Fort is situated in:
Andhra Pradesh
Kerala
West Bengal
Tamilnadu
Q3: Which movement was negative enough to be peaceful but positive enough to
be effective?
Swadeshi Movement
Non-Cooperation Movement
Civil Disobedience Movement
Quit India Movement
Q4: Lactic acid is a:
Three-carbon molecule
Two-carbon molecule
Four-carbon molecule
Five-carbon molecule
Q5: Amnesty International is an organisation focused on protection of:
animal rights
labor rights
environmental rights
human rights
Q6: Which is one of the newest nuclear power plants of India?
Kudankulam
Kaiga
Rawatbhata
Tarapur
Q7: Who among the following resisted the demand for the formation of
Pakistan?
Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Sardar Patel
Maulana Azad
Q8: Who was the Governor-General of Bengal when the Permanent Settlement was
introduced there in 1793?
Warren Hastings
Charles Cornwallis
Lord Wellesley
Lord Dalhousie
Q9: Which article of the Constitution of India is related to the appointment
of a Governor?
Article 153
Article 159
Article 155
Article 157
Q10: When people are financed through the budget and a public good is made
available free of any direct payment it is referred to as:
public provision
community provision
private provision
market provision
Q11: Which physician came to India and served in the Bengal Medical Service
from 1794 to 1815 and also undertook pioneering survey explorations in
several diverse regions of India?
Alexander Fleming
Robert Koch
Edward Jenner
Francis Buchanan
Q12: When was the border road organisation established in India?
May 1960
August 1980
July 1970
June 1950
Q13: Which of the following protocols is used for WWW?
SMTP
HTTP
POP3
FTP
Q14: The value of the gross investment in order to accommodate regular wear
and tear of capital is called:
appreciation
capitalization
amortization
depreciation
Q15: Which fibre crop is used for making coarse cloth, bags, sacks and
decorative items?
Jute
Silk
Cotton
Wool
Q16: Who is the first Indian woman scientist to be elected the Fellowship of
The Royal Society, United Kingdom in 2019?
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Indira Hinduja
Sunita Narain
Gagandeep Kang
Q17: Arundhati Roy won The Booker Prize for:
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
The God of Small Things
The Algebra of Infinite Justice
Walking with the Comrades
Q18: In human beings, which of the following has a high affinity for oxygen?
Myoglobin
Haemoglobin
Cytochrome
Chlorophyll
Q19: The center of the reflecting surface of a spherical mirror is a point
called:
vertex
radius
focus
pole
Q20: Popular folk song 'Kajari' is popular in:
Uttar Pradesh
Bihar
Madhya Pradesh
Rajasthan
Q21: In a web address, the domain indicator (suffix) '.com' stands for:
network
commercial
government
organization
Q22: Which steel plant was established with Russian collaboration in Durg
district of Chattisgarh and started production in 1959?
Rourkela Steel Plant
Bhilai Steel Plant
Durgapur Steel Plant
Bokaro Steel Plant
Q23: Which former judge of the Supreme Court of India has been appointed as
the Chairperson of the News Broadcasting Standards Authority (NBSA) in May
2019?
Ranjan Gogoi
Dipak Misra
Jagdish Singh Khehar
Arjan Kumar Sikri
Q24: The famous novel 'Untouchable' was written by:
Premchand
Rabindranath Tagore
Mulk Raj Anand
R.K. Narayan
Q25: The Saubhagya Scheme is controlled by which Ministry of the Central
Government?
Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
Ministry of Rural Development
Ministry of Power
Q26: GATT was established to regulate world trade in 1948. GATT stands for:
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
Global Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
General Agreement on Trade and Taxes
Global Agreement on Trade and Tariffs
Q27: Who is the author of the book 'Wealth of Nations'?
John Maynard Keynes
Adam Smith
Karl Marx
David Ricardo
Q28: The ability of a medium to refract light is also expressed in terms of
its:
refractive index
opacity
transparency
optical density
Q29: Which state is the largest producer of bauxite?
Odisha
Chhattisgarh
Jharkhand
Gujarat
Q30: When was the Human Space Flight Centre (HSFC) inaugurated by ISRO?
February 2020
March 2021
January 2019
April 2022
Q31: An instrument used for measuring growth in plants is known as:
crescograph
hygrometer
barometer
auxanometer
Q32: Who stayed in India for 23 years (1802 - 25) painting portraits,
landscapes and scenes of everyday life of common people?
Thomas Daniell
George Chinnery
Johann Zoffany
William Hodges
Q33: In 2014, the Department of Science and Technology in India took a giant
step forward and brought all the women centric schemes and programmes under
one ambit named:
PRAGATI
SAKSHAM
KIRAN
NARI
Q34: Who is called the 'Milkman of India'?
Verghese Kurien
M.S. Swaminathan
B.P. Pal
Norman Borlaug
Q35: League of Nations was replaced by:
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
European Union
United Nations
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Q36: In a plant, the seed contains the embryo which develops into a seedling
under appropriate conditions. This process is known as:
germination
transpiration
photosynthesis
respiration
Q37: Where was the 5th ABU Media Summit on Climate Action and Disaster
Preparedness held in 2019?
Bangladesh
Sri Lanka
Nepal
India
Q38: The sum of total fixed cost and total variable cost is known as:
total cost
average cost
marginal cost
opportunity cost
Q39: In which generation were computers bulky, vacuum based and costly?
Second generation
First generation
Third generation
Fourth generation
Q40: Who coined the famous slogan 'Jai Jawan Jai Kisan'?
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Indira Gandhi
Rajiv Gandhi
Jawaharlal Nehru
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