Today's Amazon Daily Quiz Answers dated 9 August 2022 - ₹5,000 Amazon Pay Balance
Question 1 of 5:
Ben Stokes recently played his final ODI at Durham against which team?
Benjamin Andrew Stokes OBE (born 4 June 1991 in Christchurch, New Zealand) is an English cricketer who is the captain of the England Test team and plays for the England Twenty20 International (T20I) team. In domestic cricket, he represents Durham and has played in multiple Twenty20 leagues, including the Indian Premier League, playing for Rising Pune Supergiant and Rajasthan Royals.
He made his T20I debut in 2011, his Test debut in 2013, and played for England's One Day International (ODI) team from 2011 before retiring from the format in July 2022. He was named the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World in 2019 and 2020. He was appointed captain of England's Test team in April 2022.
The answer is- South Africa
Question 2 of 5:
Toolsidas Junior' recently won the best Hindi film honour at the National Film Awards. This was whose last film?
Toolsidas Junior is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language coming-of-age sports film written and directed by Mridul Mahendra, who based it on his own life and childhood. Produced jointly by Bhushan Kumar and Krishan Kumar under T-Series Films along with Sunita Gowariker and co-screenwriter Ashutosh Gowariker in his first production-only venture under Ashutosh Gowariker Productions, the film stars Sanjay Dutt, Rajiv Kapoor, Dalip Tahil and debutante Varun Buddhadev in the lead roles, marking Kapoor's final and posthumous release following his death in February 2021, while Ankur Vikal, Chinmai Chandrashuh, Tasveer Kamil and Sara Arjun play supporting roles.
Kapoor had a heart attack and dead during the early hours of 9 February 2021. His last film was Toolsidas Junior.
The answer is- Rajiv Kapoor
Question 3 of 5:
India has recently signed a memorandum of understanding with which country to reintroduce the cheetah in the country?
India and Namibia signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to reintroduce African cheetahs in India.
The MoU was signed by Union Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav and the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Namibia Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, in New Delhi, and also covers cooperation on wildlife conservation and sustainable biodiversity utilisation.
The answer is- Namibia
Question 4 of 5:
Who among these was a founder of this company?
Uber Technologies, Inc. (Uber) is an American mobility as a service provider, allowing users to book a car and driver to transport them in a way similar to a taxi. It is based in San Francisco with operations in approximately 72 countries and 10,500 cities in 2021.
In 2009, Uber was founded as Ubercab by Garrett Camp, a computer programmer and the co-founder of StumbleUpon, and Travis Kalanick, who sold his Red Swoosh startup for $19 million in 2007.After Camp and his friends spent $800 hiring a private driver, he wanted to find a way to reduce the cost of direct transportation. He realized that sharing the cost with people could make it affordable, and his idea morphed into Uber.
The answer is- Garrett Camp
Question 5 of 5:
Which of these was one of the initial names of this airline before changing to its present day name?
Air India is the flag carrier airline of India, headquartered at New Delhi.[8] It is owned by Talace Private Limited, a Special-Purpose Vehicle (SPV) of Tata Sons, after Air India Limited's former owner, the Government of India, completed the sale.[9] Air India operates a fleet of Airbus and Boeing aircraft serving 102 domestic and international destinations.[10][11] The airline has its hub at Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, alongside several focus cities across India.
The airline was founded by J. R. D. Tata as Tata Airlines in 1932; Tata himself flew its first single-engine de Havilland Puss Moth, carrying air mail from Karachi's Drigh Road Aerodrome to Bombay's Juhu aerodrome and later continuing to Madras (currently Chennai). After World War II, it became a public limited company and was renamed as Air India.
The answer is- Tata Airlines
