LEARN 5+1 GENERAL KNOWLEDGE Q/A DAILY FOR 12 April 2022
Question 1 of 5:
Which of these is a car model launched by Kia in India?
Kia Corporation, commonly known as Kia (formerly known as Kyungsung Precision Industry and Kia Motors Corporation), is a South Korean multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. It is South Korea's second largest automobile manufacturer after (its parent company) Hyundai Motor Company, with sales of over 2.8 million vehicles in 2019. As of December 2015, the Kia Corporation is minority owned by Hyundai, which holds a 33.88% stake valued at just over US$6 billion. Kia in turn is a minority owner of more than twenty Hyundai subsidiaries ranging from 4.9% up to 45.37%, totaling more than US$8.3 billion.
Etymology
According to the company, the name "Kia" derives from the Sino-Korean characters (ki, 'to arise') and (a, which meaning 'Asia'); it is roughly translated as "Rising from Asia."
The Carens is a larger vehicle and is completely different in look too. In attributes, the Carens is more MPV than SUV, though Kia is steering clear of typecasting it as either, hence the ‘RV’ tag. What the Carens is, is a model of interest for anyone who needs three rows of seating in their next vehicle.
The answer is- Carens
Question 2 of 5:
In which city did Imam-ul-Haq score 2 centuries in Pakistan's first home Test against Australia in 24 years?
Imam-ul-Haq (born in Lahore on 22 December 1995) is a Pakistani international cricketer. On his One Day International (ODI) debut against Sri Lanka, he became the second batsman for Pakistan, and thirteenth overall, to score a century on debut.In August 2018, he was one of thirty-three players to be awarded a central contract for the 2018–19 season by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).
In March 2022, in the opening match of the series against Australia, Imam scored his first century in Test cricket. In the second innings, he scored another century, becoming the tenth batter for Pakistan to score a century in both innings of a Test in Rawalpindi.
The answer is- Rawalpindi
Question 3 of 5:
Who among these famous actresses features in the Amazon Prime Series 'Bestseller'?
Bestseller is an Indian psychological new-age suspense thriller web series created by Alchemy LLP, Siddharth P Malhotra, Sapna Malhotra. It stars Mithun Chakraborty, Shruti Haasan, Arjan Bajwa, Gauahar Khan, Sonalee Kulkarni and Satyajeet Dubey. The series is made under the banner of Alchemy Films. It is based on Ravi Subramanian’s novel with the same name.
The answer is- Shruti Haasan
Question 4 of 5:
Where is the world's first spaceport for orbital and human launches built by the USSR located?
The world's first spaceport for orbital and human launches, the Baikonur Cosmodrome in southern Kazakhstan,leased to Russia, started as a Soviet military rocket range in 1955. It achieved the first orbital flight (Sputnik 1) in October 1957.
The Cosmodrome is the largest (in area) operational space launch facility. All crewed Russian spaceflights are launched from Baikonur.
The answer is- Baikonour
Question 5 of 5:
Name the fish captured by these men which is nearly extinct due to over fishing for caviar.
Sturgeon is the common name for the 27 species of fish belonging to the family Acipenseridae. The family is grouped into four genera: Acipenser, Huso, Scaphirhynchus, and Pseudoscaphirhynchus.
DYK:
The largest sturgeon on record was a beluga female captured in the Volga estuary in 1827, measuring 7.2 m (23 ft 7 in) long and weighing 1,571 kg (3,463 lb).
Several species of sturgeon are harvested for their roe, which is processed into the luxury food caviar. This has led to serious overexploitation, which combined with other conservation threats, has brought most of the species to critically endangered status, at the edge of extinction.
The answer is- Sturgeon
