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B. An Airbus A-380 with 853 passengers flying 1123 round trips between San
Francisco and Johannesburg
C. An Airbus A-380 with 853 pax doing 1766 round trips between Earth and
Moon
D. An Airbus A-380 with 853 pax doing 2 round trips between Earth and
Jupiter
(assuming average distance of Jupiter from Earth is constant)
A2. Total passenger-km carried by IR in 2013-2014 is
equivalent of
A. An Airbus A-380 with 853 passengers circumambulating the earth at
equator twice
The moon is 384,400 km from Earth.
Indian Railways clocked 1,158,742 million passenger km in 2013-
B. An
14.Airbus
That isA-380
like anwith 853doing
A-380 passengers
round flying 1123
trips to round
moon trips
daily forbetween
almost San
Francisco
5 years and Johannesburg
C. An Airbus A-380 with 853 pax doing 1766 round trips between Earth and
Moon
Q3. Total freight carried by Indian Railways in 2014 in
gross tonnage is
• However IR carried more than that: 1058.81 million tons of freight in 2014.
A. Bhopal Jn
B. Ballarshah
C. Vijaywada Jn
D. Vilupuram
A4. The total number of BG passenger coaches (incl.
EMU) in Indian Railways rolling stock when stacked as
a single rake formation will extend from New Delhi
(NDLS) approximately to:
365,726
A5. The gross traffic receipts of Indian Railways for the
year 2012-13 places it between which two states in
terms of Gross State Domestic Product (State-level
GDP)?
A. Bihar & Delhi
1. Three million Hitachi 1.5 ton air-conditioners running 24/7 for an entire year
3. Entire 2010 electricity consumption in Sri Lanka and Nepal put together
A. 1 & 2
B. 2 & 3
C. 1 & 3
⁻ CERN uses about 1.3 terawatt hours of power annually of which the
LHC can account up to 70% of consumption when powered
B. 2 & 3
C. 1 & 3
B. Palakkad Jn
C. Kozhikkode
D. Kasaragod
A7. If all the High Speed Diesel (HSD) consumed by
Railways in 2013-14 purely for locomotive traction
were to be transported as a single bulk cargo in BTPN
tankers, such a rake would roughly extend from the
buffers of Chennai Central to
A. Katpadi Jn – 130 KM In 2013-14, IR diesel locomotives consumed
2,780.90 million litres of HSD Oil.
B. Palakkad Jn – 551 KM
It is equivalent to the cargo of 45,341 BTPN
C. Kozhikkode – 680 KM Tankers
B. The number of Hajj pilgrims that visited Mecca since the birth
of Islam
•C. The
Thetop 30 airports
number carried who
of pilgrims an estimated 3 billion passengers
visited Tirumala since 1900in 2012-2014 time
period.
D. Number of video views per day on Facebook
• An average of 2 million people visit the holy city of Mecca on Hajj every year. At
current year numbers it would take at least 4000 years to touch a cumulative of 8
billion
A. Churchgate– Dahisar
C. Pune – Kalyan Jn
D. Hyderabad Deccan-Khammam
A9. What would be a comparable “average distance
travelled by a passenger” on Indian Railways
including suburban services
D. Area of Sikkim
A11. The total land owned by Indian Railways converted to
square KM including all is more than or equal to
Sikkim is 7,000 Sq Km
IR’s coaches together have a capacity of 5.18 million pax. None of the above numbers fit
C. All the
perfectly but IPhone 6 users
the combined in thepersonnel
military United States
including reserves of India and China is
around 5.81 million comes closest to optimal occupancy.
D. Every citizen of Ireland
There are about 2-3 million HIV positive cases in India according to WHO
There are 38 million Iphone 6 units in use in the United States according to Consumer
Research firms and there are just 4.17 million people living in Ireland.
Q14. Which one is likely to be a true statement?
B. Total freight of iron & steel carried by Indian Railways is twice more than
that produced by ArcelorMittal in 2013
B. Total freight of iron & steel carried by Indian Railways is twice more than
that produced by ArcelorMittal in2013
The Three Gorges Dam one of the largest dam projects in the world consumed 10.8
million tons of cement for its masonary structure.
C. IR generated more revenues from passenger services than from carrying
Indian Railways carried 108 million tons of cement in 2014-14
coal
ArcelorMittal’s iron & steel production in 2014 was 98 million tons, more than double
D. Allmillion
the 38 of thetons
above
carried by IR.
Coal is the single largest revenue earning commodity for Indian Railways at Rs 39,441
crores which is more than Rs 36,532 crores earned from its passenger services.
Q15. Where does Indian Railways fit as a corporation in
ranking of the following companies by revenue (latest)
Ranking Company
A. Between PNB and Infosys 1 IOC
2 Reliance Industries
3 BPCL
B. Between SBI and Essar Oil 4 HPCL
5 SBI
6 Essar Oil
C. Between GAIL and Bharti Airtel 7 ONGC
8 TCS
9 NTPC
D. Below Between IOC and Reliance 10 MRPL
11 L&T
12 GAIL
13 Bharti Airtel
14 Maruti Suzuki
15 ICICI Bank
16 HDFC Bank
17 Infosys
18 Punjab National Bank
19 JSW Steel
20 SAIL
A15. Where does Indian Raiways fit as a corporation in
ranking of the following companies by revenue (latest)
Rankin Company Latest Net Sales (Rs
A. Between PNB and Infosys g Crores)
1 IOC 437,526.00
2 Reliance Industries 329,076.00
B. Between SBI and Essar Oil 3 BPCL 238,086.90
4 HPCL 206,626.18
5 SBI 152,397.07
C. Between GAIL and Bharti Airtel6 Indian Railways 123,901.00
7 Essar Oil 83,205.81
8 ONGC 82,870.96
D. Below Between IOC and Reliance
9 TCS 73,578.06
10 NTPC 73,246.05
11 MRPL 57,462.53
12 L&T 57,017.41
13 GAIL 56,741.98
14 Bharti Airtel 55,496.40
15 Maruti Suzuki 49,970.60
16 ICICI Bank 49,091.14
17 HDFC Bank 48,469.90
18 Infosys 47,300.00
19 Punjab National Bank 46,315.36
20 JSW Steel 46,087.32
Q16. The total lubricating oil sold by Hindustan Petroleum
in 2013-14 is 484 Thousand Metric Tonnes. The total
lubricating oil used by Indian Railways locomotives
including Metre Gauge in 2013-14 during hauling
operations is
D. Less than 1%
A16. The total lubricating oil sold by Hindustan Petroleum in
2013-14 is 484 Thousand Metric Tonnes. The total
lubricating oil used by Indian Railways locomotives
including Metre Gauge in 2013-14 during hauling
operations is
B. The total revenue of the largest power producer in India – NTPC- for the
year 2013-14
B. The total revenue of the largest power producer in India – NTPC- for the
year 2013-14
NTPC total revenues for 2013-14 were Rs 73,245 crores. IR’s total wage bill for the
C. same
Theyear
total
waspay package
Rs 76,241 of Manchester United, Manchester City and
crores
Chelsea put together for the year 2013-14 (1GBP= Rs100)
Apple’s wage bill for the year ended 2014 was anywhere between $3billion to $9billion
(Indian Railways wages- $11b).
D. 5 percent of India’s GDP
The total wage bill of the top 3 EPL clubs was just Rs 6,137 crores converted to INR
Finally 5% of India’s GDP is a way too huge a number. It is little more than Rs 6.5 lakh
crore which is the almost the wage bill of the entire Central and State government
organization of India put together
Q19. One does not compare a mean value to a median
value, nevertheless, the average annual wage per IR
employee is in the same region as:
A. Thewage
Average median annual salary
per employee of IR of
forathe
senior
year software engineer
2013-14 was Rs588,523.
That is in the same range as the median salary of an Indian SAP Consultant at Rs
B. The median annual salary of an Accountant
594,544.
B. Total number of airports for public use in the US , the largest aviation
market
D.
Delhi Number of4,700
has around TASMAC liquor retail outlets in Tamil Nadu
bus stops.
Q21. If a single electric locomotive were to represent all the
BG Passenger electric locos of Indian Railways, which link
should it haul such that it meets the average distance per
day a passenger electric loco ran in 2013-14?
VSP
A. wins!
12406 NZM-BSL Gondwana Express
The 12727-Godavari Express covers 711km between VSKP and HYB. That is a little more than
B. 697KM
the 12727
of VSKP-HYB Godavari
Engine KM per day perExpress
Electric engine in use for the year2013-14.
Engine KM per day per Engine for BG diesel locos was 631KM. For BG freight locos, diesels
clocked an average of 429KM while electrics clocked 473KM
D. As many as the total number of candidates who contested for 543 Lok
Sabha seats In General Election 2014
A22. This one is dedicated to Ashwin Gandhi. How many
passengers travelled on AC First Class in the year 2013-14?
C. In 2013-14
As aroundas
many people 2.5the
million
totalpassengers
number ofused Kozhikode
applicants toInternational Airport.
Common Admission
Test 2015
In the same year, 2,502,800 originating passengers travelled in AC First Class over
Indian Railways network.
D. As many as the total number of candidates who contested for 543 Lok
IIMs received
Sabha about
seats In 218,600
General applications
Election 2014 for CAT 2015
A total of 8,251 candidates contested for 543 Lok Sabha seats in 2014 elections.
A. More than the fleet of buses with Karnataka State Road Transport
Corporation
C. More than the number of Boeing 737 aircraft (all variants) delivered
since 1967
A. More than the fleet of buses with Karnataka State Road Transport
Corporation
As of March 2014, IR had 10,499 locomotives (BG and MG) operational.
B. More
Boeing than the8,807
had delivered fleet aircraft
of affiliated
of 737taxies
series with Meru
starting Cabs
1967 and has about
4,000 more orders yet to be fulfilled.
C. More than the number of Boeing 737 aircraft (all variants) delivered
KSRTC has more than 17,000 buses in its fleet including all subsidiaries.
since 1967
Meru cabs operates around 20,000 taxies across 23 cities in India
D. All of the above
Q24. The total number of people who retired from Indian
Railways in the year 2013-14 is in the same range as:
C. The estimated number of visitors to the Sai Baba temple in Shirdi per day
D. The number of people who scaled the summit of Mount Everest since
the first ever successful expedition
A24. The total number of people who retired from Indian
Railways in the year 2013-14 is in the same range as:
C. The estimated
There number
were 61,151 of visitors
retirements to the
in 2013-14 in Sai Baba
Indian temple in Shirdi per day
Railways.
The estimated number of people who attended Narendra Modi’s Wembley rally in
D. The number of people who scaled the summit of Mount Everest since
Nov’ 15 was 60,000.
the first ever successful expedition
Shirdi temple sees around 25000 devotees daily according to the Shirdi Sai Sansthan
Mount Everest was scaled by around 7,000 people since the first ever expedition
Q25. The combined horsepower available from operational
Diesel and Electric locomotives in the year 2013-14 was an
equivalent of:
A. The peak power output of Three Gorges Dam, the largest power plant in
the world of any kind
C. The power from lift off configuration of the F-1 Rocket engine that
powered the Saturn V rocket which carried Neil Armstrong to moon
The
D. Three Gorges Dam’s
The largest peakturbine
industrial power output is 22
engine, theGigawatts compared to 29
1750 Megawatt-electric
gigawatts equivalent of IR locomotive power output.
Arabelle turbine generator in France
The largest industrial turbine, Arabelle produces 2,346,788 (2.3 million)
horsepower
This big!