Most Confusing GK Pointers- Part 92

April 03, 2018
Most Confusing GK Pointers- Part 92

#1.

  • ALU – Arithmetic Logic Unit
  • AGU – Address Generation Unit



#2. Colour of different lamps

  • Sodium Vapour Lamp – Yellow
  • Hydrogen Vapour Lamp – Blue
  • Nitrogen Vapour Lamp – Red
  • Mercury Vapour Lamp – White
  • Neon Vapour Lamp – Orange
  • Chlorine Vapour Lamp – Green

#3.

  • Width of Broad gauge rail – 1.676
  • Width of Narrow gauge rail – 0.762


#4.

  • Father of Modern Biology – Charles Darwin
  • Father of Biology – Aristotle

#5.

  • Headquarters of IDFC Bank – Mumbai
  • Headquarters of NABARD – Mumbai

#6.

  • First RBI Governor – Sir Osborne Smith
  • First Indian RBI Governor – C.D. Deshmukh

#7.

  • Repo Rate: The rate at which the RBI lends money to commercial banks 
  • Reverse Repo Rate: the rate at which the RBI borrows money from commercial banks.

#8.

  • Inventor of World Wide Web - Tim Berners-Lee: The first web browser was invented in 1990 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. It was called WorldWideWeb and was later renamed Nexus.
  • First web server software: CERN httpd(later also known as W3C httpd) - was a web server (HTTP) daemon originally developed at CERN , it live on 25 December 1990.

#9.

  • India's 1st post office savings bank ATM inaugurated at - Head Post Office in Thyagaraya Nagar , chennai
  • India's 1st post office savings bank ATM inaugurated by -  P. Chidambaram (Union Finance Minister)


#10.

  • Highest Mountain in North America – Denali
  • Highest Mountain in South America – Aconcagua


#11.

  • Madhya Pradesh has largest Forest area
  • Mizoram has largest forest area on percentage base


#12.

  • Nagaland – Land of Nagas
  • Odisha – Land of Odias
  • Gujarat – Land of Gurjars

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