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1. White Revolution: Milk and Dairy products 2. Blue Revolution: Fishing and marine products 3.

Yellow revolution: Oil seeds/edible oil especially mustard, sunflower etc. 4. Pink Revolution: Prawns, onion 5. Rainbow Revolution: Fruits/breeding of ornamental fish 6. Brown Revolution: Cocoa/Leather 7. Black Revolution: Petroleum 8. Grey Revolution: Fertilizer 9. Red Revolution: Meat, tomato 10. Round Revolution: Potato 11. Golden Revolution: Honey, Horticulture 12. Golden fiber: Jute 13. Silver fiber: Cotton 14. Silver: Eggs (Poultry)

9. Which are the states have no Railway ? Answer: Meghalaya and Sikkim (building new railway lines) 10. Which is the Worlds oldest working steam locomotive engine (train) ? Answer: Fairy Queen runs in India 11. What is the width of Narrow gauge rail ? Answer: 0.762 12. Which is the fastest train in India ? Answer: Shatabdi Express 13. In which year Indian Railway board established ? Answer: 1905 14. Which is the first Railway station in India ? Answer: Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (Victoria terminal) 15. Who is the first Indian to present Railway Budget ? Answer: John Mathai 16. Who is the first railway minister in India ? Answer: Lal Bahadur Shastri 17. Who is the first lady Railway minister of India ? Answer: Mamta Benergy 18. Which is the highest railway station in India ? Answer: Ghum railway station 19. Which is the longest Railway bridge in India ? Answer: Vallarpadam Bridge (kerala) 20. What is the slogan of Indian Railway ? Answer: lifeline of the nation 21. Where is the Museum of Indian Railway situated? Answer: Chanakyapuri (New Delhi) 22.. Which is the train the longest running train in india, ? Answer: Vivek Express (Himsagar Express is the second longest) 23. Which is the train runs in India for commemorate the150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore ? Answer: Sanskriti Express 24. Which is the train proposed for honouring the Women ? Answer: Mathrubhumi 25. Which is the train proposed for honouring the Jawans ? Answer: Janmabhumi Express

Indian Railway Important GK questions


1When did Railway started in India? Answer: in 1853 2. What is the width of Broad gauge rail ? Answer: 1.676 3. Which is the First Electric Train in India ? Answer: Deccan Queen (Kalyan - Pune) 4. When did Life Line Express (Jeevan Rekha) Started ? Answer: In 1991 5. Which year is declared as "Year of Rail Users" by the Indian Railways ? Answer: 1995 6. Which is the Longest Railway Tunnel ? Answer: Pir Panjal Railway Tunnel (Banihal railway tunnel) 7. Which is the Longest Railway platform in the World ? Answer: Gorakhpur station platform (UP) 8. Which is the train running between India and Bangladesh ? Answer: Maitree Express

1. Which is the Biggest public bank in India ? Answer: SBI 2. What was the old name of State Bank Of India ? Answer: Imperial Bank of India 3. Where is the headquarters of SBI ? Answer: Mumbai 4. Which is the biggest commercial bank in India ? Answer: State Bank of India 5. Which is the largest private sector bank in India ? Answer: ICICI 6. Which is the first universal bank in India ? Answer: ICICI 7. Which is the first Indian bank to Introduce internet banking ? Answer: ICICI 8. Which is the second largest bank in India ? Answer: ICICI 9. Which is the first bank in India listed in New york Stock exchange ? Answer: ICICI 10. Which is the First Bank in India ? Answer: Bank of Hindustan 11. Which is the first bank started with Indian capital (Indian owned bank) ? Answer: Punjab National Bank 12. Which is the first foreign Bank in India ? Answer: Chartered Bank 13. Which is the first bank to get ISO certificate ? Answer: Canara Bank 14. Which is the first bank in India to start its branches outside India ? Answer: Bank of India 15. Which is the first bank in India to introduce ATM ? Answer: H.S.B.C bank 16. Which is the oldest public bank in India ? Answer: Allahabad Bank 17. When did Radio Broadcasting started in India ? Answer: in 1927 18. In which year was the All India Radio established ? in 1936 19. In which year All India Radio was renamed as Akashvani ? in 1956

20. When did TV Broadcasting started in India ? Answer: in1959 21. In which year Decimal System of coinage introduced in India ? in 1957 22. When was Reserve Bank Of India established ? Answer: in 1935 23. When was Reserve Bank Of India nationalized ? Answer: in 1949 24. In which year Gandhi series Currency introduced in India ? in 1996 25.When did Constituent Assembly of India Adopted The National Anthem ? Answer: in 1950 January 24 26. When was Five Year Plan started in India ? Answer: in 1951 27. When was First Postal system Introduced in India ? Answer: in 1766 28. When did pin code introduced in india ? Answer: in 1972

Antarctica
1. Which continent is known as Continent of Science ? 2. Which continent is known as White Continent ? 3. Which is the only Continent without any trees ? 4. Who is the first person to reach south Pole ? Answer: Roald Amundsen 5. Which is the Active Volcano in Antarctica ? Answer: Mount Erebus 6. Which is the world's southernmost active volcano ? Answer: Mount Erebus 7. Which is the highest Peak in Antarctica ? Answer: Vinson Massif 8. Which is the largest lake in Antarctica ? Answer: Lake Vostok 9. In which year The Antarctic Treaty signed ? Answer: 1959

Stock Exchange Index and Country Nikkiei , Pix =>> Tokyo (Japan) Kospa =>> Korea Bove spa =>> Brazil Nasadq =>> USA Simex =>> Singapore Hang Seng =>> Hong Kong Mid Dax =>> Frankfort FTSE =>> London 1. Which is the oldest Stock Exchange in Asia ? Answer: Bombay Stock Exchange 2. What is the full-form of SENSEX ? Answer: Sensitive Index 3. In which street did Bombay Stock Exchange situate ? Answer: Dalal Street 4. When did National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) founded? Answer: 1992 (in 1993 it become stock exchange) 5. When did SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) formed ? Answer: 1988 (Officialy started in 1992) 6. Which is the Worlds First Electronic Stock Exchange ? Answer: NASDAQ (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) 7. Which Stock Exchange has the nick name "Big Board" ? Answer: New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) 8. Which Stock Exchange is situated in Wall Street ? Answer: New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)

4. Who was the First Muslim ruler to attack South India ? Answer: Alauddin Khilji 5. Who built 'Siri Fort' in Delhi ? Answer: Alauddin Khilji 6. Who took the title 'Sikandar-i-Saini' or 'Second Alexander' ? Answer: Alauddin Khilji 7. Who was the Court poet of Alauddin Khilji ? Answer: Amir Khusru 8. Who is known as "Parrot of India" ? Answer: Amir Khusru 9. Who was the prime minister and commander in chief of Alauddin Khilji ? Answer: Malik Kafur 10. Where was the capital of Khilji Dynasty ? Answer: Delhi 11. Who was the last ruler of Khilji Dynasty ? Answer: Mubarak Shah Khilji 1. Which is the first Muslim Dynasty in India ? Answer: Slave Dynasty 2. When did the Slave Dynasty founded ? Answer: AD 1206 3.. Who is the founder of Slave Dynasty ? Answer: Qutub-ud-din Aibak 4. Who is the last Slave ruler ? Answer: Kayumars 5. Who is considered as founder of second Ilbari Dynasty ? Answer: Balban 6. Who is known as 'Shadow of God' ? Answer: Balban 7. Who is the founder of Tughlaq Dynasty ? Answer: Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq 8. Which Tughlaq Ruler is known as 'wisest fool' ? Answer: Mohammad-bin-Tughlaq 9. Who called Mohammad-bin-Tughlaq as 'an ill starred idealist' ? Answer: Iban Batuta 10. Who was the Tughlaq Dynasty Ruler when Iban Batuta (an African traveler) visited India ? Answer: Mohammad-bin-Tughlaq

Some important Dynasties and their capitals


Pandyan Dynasty >> Madurai Pallava dynasty >> Kanchi Chola dynasty >> Uraiyur Chera Dynasty >> Vanji Chalukya dynasty >> Vatapi Maurya Dynasty >> Pataliputra Kushan Dynasty >> Purushpura (Peshawar) 1. Who founded the Khilji Dynasty ? Answer: Jalaludin Khilji (Malik Firoz) 2. When did Khilji Dynasty founded ? Answer: AD 1209 3. What is the Original name of Alauddin Khilji ? Answer: Ali Gurshap

11. Who introduced 'Jaziya' (a tax on non-Muslims) ? Answer: Firuz-sha-Tughlaq 12. Which Tughlaq ruler banned Music ? Answer: Giyasuddin Tughlaq 13. Who was the last ruler of Tughlaq Dynasty ? Answer: Muhammad Shah Tughlaq

14. Kharif crops are sown in the . Season? Answer: Monsoon 15. Yellow Revolution aimed at the increase of the production of Answer: Oil seeds 16. White Revolution was associated with Answer: Milk production 17. What was the name given to the efforts to increase the production of eggs and poultry? Answer: Silver Revolution 18. With which agriculture sector was the Silver Fibre Revolution associated? Answer: Cotton Production 19. Round Revolution was the name given to the efforts to increase the production of? Answer: Potato 20. The effort to increase the production of meat and tomato was given the name ? Answer: Red Revolution 21. Pink Revolution was associated with? Answer: Pharmaceuticals 22. What was the name given to the efforts to increase the production of fertilizers? Answer: Grey Revolution 23. Golden Fibre Revolution was was associated with the production of .? Answer: Jute 24. The name given to the efforts to increase the production of honey was .? Answer: Golden Revolution

1. Agriculture and allied sectors accounted for what percentage of total workforce of India? Answer: 50 Percentage 2. India ranks .. in worldwide farm output? Answer: Second 3. Agriculture and allied sectors like forestry and fisheries accounts for . % of the GDP? Answer: 16% 4. Who is known as The Father of Green Revolution? Answer: Norman Borlaug 5. Who was the first to use the term Green Revolution in 1968? Answer: William Gaud 6. Where is the headquarters of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)? Answer: Los Banos 7. Which rice variety developed by the IRRI was dubbed Miracle Rice? Answer: IR-8 8. Who is known as The Father of Indian Green Revolution? Answer: M.S Swaminathan 9. Who was the first Indian to become the Director General of the IRRI? Answer: M.S Swaminathan 10. Which Indian state was selected first for the implementation of Green Revolution? Answer: Punjab 11. Which are the major Kharif crops? Answer: Paddy, Millet, Maize, Sugarcane and Soybean 12. The Agricultural crops sown in winter and harvested in the summer are known as: Answer: Rabi crops 13. Which are the major Rabi crops? Answer: Wheat, Barley, Gram, Mustard and Linseed

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