LEARN AMAZON'S 5 GK Q/A WITH EXPL FOR 11 March 2023

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 Question 1 of 5:

Meg Lanning was named the captain of which franchise in the inaugural Women's Premier League?

The answer is- Delhi Capitals

Meghann Moira Lanning  (born 25 March 1992) is an Australian cricketer who currently captains the national women's team. Lanning has been a member of seven successful world championship campaigns, winning two Women's Cricket World Cup and five ICC Women's World Twenty20 titles. She holds the record for the most Women's One Day International centuries and is the first Australian to score 2,000 Twenty20 International runs.

In January 2022, in the one-off Women's Test match as part of the Women's Ashes against England, Lanning became just the third cricketer after England's Charlotte Edwards and India's Mithali Raj to captain her side in 150 women's international matches.

She is also the captain of the Delhi Capitals in the Women's Premier League.

Question 2 of 5:

Which famous actor plays the role of Michael Vedanayagam in the Amazon Prime series 'Farzi'?

The answer is- Vijay Sethupathi

Farzi (transl. fake) is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language black comedy crime thriller television series about counterfeit money created, produced and directed by Raj & DK, who also co-wrote the series with Sita Menon and Suman Kumar. It stars Shahid Kapoor, Vijay Sethupathi, Kay Kay Menon, Raashii Khanna and Bhuvan Arora.

Shahid Kapoor acted as Sandeep alias Sunny, a disillusioned artist; Vijay Sethupathi as Michael Vedanayagam, a Special Task Force officer and head of the Counterfeiting & Currency Fraud Analysis & Research Team (CCFART); Kay Kay Menon as Mansoor Dalal, a criminal mastermind who heads the counterfeit network in India, based out of Jordan; Raashii Khanna as Megha Vyas, an officer for the Reserve Bank of India who later joins CCFART

Question 3 of 5:

Malgudi Days is a collection of short stories by which writer?

The answer is- RK Narayan

Malgudi Days is an Indian television series that started in 1986, and was filmed in both English (first 13 episodes) and Hindi (all 54 episodes), based on the 1943 short story collection of the same name by R. K. Narayan. 

Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami (10 October 1906 in Madras (now Chennai, Tamil Nadu), British India. – 13 May 2001) was an Indian writer and novelist known for his work set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. He was a leading author of early Indian literature in English along with Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao.

Narayan received the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan, India's second and third highest civilian awards, and in 1994 the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, the highest honor of India's national academy of letters.

Question 4 of 5:

Which superhero is the person in the picture dressed as?

The answer is- Aquaman

Aquaman is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by Paul Norris and Mort Weisinger, the character debuted in More Fun Comics #73 (November 1941).

The son of a human lighthouse-keeper and the queen of Atlantis, Aquaman is the alias of Arthur Curry, who also goes by the Atlantean name Orin. Others to use the title of Aquaman include a short-lived human successor, Joseph Curry; his protégé Jackson Hyde; and the mysterious Adam Waterman, who was briefly active during World War II. 

Question 5 of 5:

What bird is shown in this visual?

The answer is- Dodo

The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, which is east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. The closest living relative of the dodo is the Nicobar pigeon. 

The first recorded mention of the dodo was by Dutch sailors in 1598. The dodo achieved widespread recognition from its role in the story of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and it has since become a fixture in popular culture, often as a symbol of extinction and obsolescence.