Most Confusing GK Pointers- Part 97

#1.

• First Computer Programming Language – FORTRAN Language.
• Inventor of Computer Programming/Coding – Ada Lovelace.

#2.

• Gravitational Constant (G) - 6.67408 × 10-11 m3 kg-1 s-2 
• Acceleration due to Gravity (g) - 9.8 m/s/s

#3.

• Cotton City – Yavatmal, Maharashtra.
• Silk City – Bhagalpur, Bihar.

#4.

• Cloning: The process of creating living creatures or things.
• First cloning in India was done on a Buffalo at Karnal by National Diary Research Institute.

#5.

• DNA Bank – Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.
• Stem Cell Bank - Keelakottaiyur, Tamilnadu.

#6.

• First STD Service in India – Between Lucknow and Kanpur (Started in 1960)
• First ISD Service in India – Between Mumbai and Great Britain (Started in 1976)

#7.

• Memorial Place of B.R. Ambedkar - Chaitya Bhoomi, Maharashtra.
• Memorial Place of K.R. Narayanan – Karma Bhoomi, Delhi.

#8.

• Longest river in the World – Nile.
• River with Largest Drainage Basin – Amazon River.

#9.

• Hurricane – Systems that develop over the Atlantic or the eastern Pacific Oceans.
• Typhoons - Systems that develop over the Western North Pacific and Phillipines.
• Cyclones - Systems that develop over the India and South Pacific Ocean.

#10.

• First acting President of India - Varahagiri Venkata Giri (following the death of Zakir Hussain in 1969)
• First acting Prime Minister of India – Gulzarilal Nanda (following the death of Jawaharlal Nehru in 1964 and Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1966.)

#11.

• Local winds are small scale convective winds of local origin caused by temperature differences
• Local Wind of South Africa – Berg Wind
• Local Wind of Western Africa – Harmattan
• Local Wind of Arabian Desert – Simoon
• Local Wind of Sahara Desert – Sirocco

#12.

• Agenda of World Bank – It helps to promote reconstruction of developing nations.
• Agenda of International Monetary Fund – It helps to promote international monetary cooperation.

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