Today's Amazon Daily Quiz Answers (Fun Zone) - 21 January 2023 - Win ₹500 Amazon Pay Balance
Question 1 of 5:
What are Olympic medals made of?
The answer is- All of the above
An Olympic medal is awarded to successful competitors at one of the Olympic Games. There are three classes of medal to be won: gold, silver, and bronze, awarded to first, second, and third place, respectively.
The gold medals only contain about six grams of gold. Otherwise, at least 92.5 percent is made from silver. The last fully gold medals given out dates back to 1912. The silver medal, however, is made from 100 percent silver. The bronze medal is made of red brass, which is 95 percent copper and five percent zinc.
DYK:
1. The olive wreath was the prize for the winner at the Ancient Olympic Games.
2. When the modern Olympic Games began in 1896 in Athens, Greece gold medals were not awarded.
3. Gold, silver, and bronze for the first three places given in 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri in the United States.
Question 2 of 5:
The northern lights are also known as the aurora borealis, occur in which location?
The answer is- Norway
An aurora[a] (plural: auroras or aurorae), also commonly known as the polar lights, is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic). Auroras display dynamic patterns of brilliant lights that appear as curtains, rays, spirals, or dynamic flickers covering the entire sky.
In northern latitudes, the effect is known as the aurora borealis or the northern lights. The aurora borealis is visible from being close to the center of the Arctic Circle such as Alaska, the Canadian Territories, Iceland, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia.
Question 3 of 5:
What is the hardest natural substance in the world?
The answer is- Diamond
Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Diamond has the highest hardness and thermal conductivity of any natural material.
DYK:
Most natural diamonds have ages between 1 billion and 3.5 billion years.
Question 4 of 5:
Who is this female, an education activist in Pakistan who became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner?
The answer is- Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai (Urdu: ملالہ یوسفزئی, Pashto: ملاله یوسفزۍ, : [məˈlaːlə jusəf ˈzəj]; born 12 July 1997), is a Pakistani female education activist and the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Awarded when she was 17, she is the world's youngest Nobel Prize laureate, and the second Pakistani and the first Pashtun to receive a Nobel Prize.
Question 5 of 5:
Who is this famous climate activist?
The answer is- Greta Thunberg
Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg (Swedish: [ˈɡrêːta ˈtʉ̂ːnbærj] (listen); born 3 January 2003 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish environmental activist who is known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action for climate change mitigation.Her influence on the world stage has been described by The Guardian and other newspapers as the "Greta effect".
