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The correct answer is 1961.

Key Points

• Goa Liberation Day
• India attained independence from British rule back in 1947, it would still take Goa, which was a Portuguese colony at the time-14 more years to be liberated from foreign control.
• On December 19, 1961, Indian armed personnel managed to wrest control of Goa from the Portuguese, ending around 450 years of colonial rule.
• The Goa Opinion Poll was a referendum held in the state of Goa, India on 16 January 1967, to decide the future of the Union Territory of Goa, Daman, and Diu within the Indian Union.
• The fight for freedom began in the 1940s as India inched closer to independence from British rule.
• The Portuguese colonized several parts of India in 1510 but by the end of the 19^th-century Portuguese colonies in India were limited to Goa, Daman, Diu, Dadra, Nagar Haveli, and Anjediva Island.
• On 30^th May 1987, the territory was split and Goa was formed, Daman and Diu remained a Union Territory.

Additional Information

• Goa
• Capital- Panaji
• Chief Minister- Pramod Sawant
• Governor- P.S. Sreedharan Pillai
• National Bird- Ruby Throated Yellow
• National Animal- Gaur
• National Flower- Jasmine
• National Tree- Terminalia Elliptica
• National Parks- Mollem National Park

The correct answer is Maharashtra.

Key Points

• Maharashtra has more population than the other given states.
• Next to UP, Maharashtra with a population of 126,189,673(as of 2021) is India's second-largest state in terms of population-wise and **Bihar is in the third position.**​

Important Points

• Maharashtra
• Capital- Mumbai
• Chief Minister- Uddhav Thackeray
• Governor- Bhagat Singh Koshyari
• National bird- Yellow-footed green pigeon
• National animal- Indian giant squirrel
• National tree- Mango
• National flower- Jarul
• National parks- Chandoli National Park, Gugamal National Park, Nawegaon National Park, Pench National Park, Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Tadoba National Park.

Additional Information

The correct answer is 10 m Air Rifle Shooting.

Key Points

• Apurvi Singh Chandela
• She is an Indian shooter who competes in the event of 10 m Air Rifle Shooting.
• She was awarded the Arjuna Award in 2016.
• She belongs to Rajasthan state.
• She won the gold medal in the Olympic shooting event, in 2019.

Additional Information

• 10 m Air Rifle Shooting
• 10 m Air Rifle is an International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) shooting event, shot at a bullseye target over a distance of 10 meters.
• It is one of the ISSF-governed shooting sports included in the Summer Olympics since the 1984 Los Angeles Games.

The correct answer is Bandipur Tiger Reserve and National Park.

Key Points

• Bandipur Tiger Reserve and National Park
• ​It is located in Karnataka.
• The Bandipur National Park is aimed at protecting the tiger in its natural habitat.
• It was founded under the "Project Tiger" in the year 1974 by the government of India.
• Apart from the tiger, it is also the habitat of Asiatic elephants, sloths, pythons, jackals, antelopes, etc.
• The Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve also encompasses the parts of Bandipur.

Additional Information

• Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve
• ​The Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve was the first and Oldest biosphere reserve in India established in the year 1986.
• It is located in the Western Ghats and includes 2 of the 10 biogeographical provinces of India.
• The Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve falls under the biogeographic region of the Malabar rain forest.

The correct answer is 126 hours.

Key Points

• Bandana
• Bandana from Nepal created the Guinness World Record for the longest duration of dance by continuously dancing till 126 hours.
• It was previously held by an Indian woman (Kerala woman) Kalamandalam Hemlatha, who danced continuously for  123 hours and 15 minutes in 2011.
• She hails from the Dhankuta district in eastern Nepal.
• She also founded a youth organization named Bandana Nepal Foundation which works to uplift poor women in Nepal.
• She danced a solo dance on Nepali music.

The correct answer is 2,000 votes.

 Confusion Points

• A maximum of 3840 votes can be cast in old version EVMs (2000-05 model) and 2000 votes in case of new version EVMs (2006 onwards model).

Key Points

• Electronic Voting Machine (EVMs)
• EVMs are the standalone machines that aid the electoral process in Casting and Counting the Votes securely and efficiently.
• Electronic Voting has replaced ballot paper used in Parliamentary, State Assembly, and Local elections.
• An EVM can be used to record 2000 votes at a time and can be replaced with another one if it stops working.
• It works on normal batteries and doesn't consume any electricity.
• It has two units that help in smooth functioning which are the control unit and the balloting unit.
• The record of votes is safe in the control unit of the EVM, it will be erased only after deleting the data.

The correct answer is England and Wales.

Key Points

• ICC Cricket World Cup 2019
• ​The 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup was the 12^th Cricket World.
• A quadrennial One Day international cricket tournament contested by men's national teams.
• It was hosted between 30 May to 14 July 2019 across 10 venues in England and Wales.
• It was contested by the runners up from the previous tournament, New Zealand, and the host nation, England.
• England won the tournament.
• Man of the tournament- Kane Williamson
• Most runs- Rohit Sharma (648 runs)
• Most wickets- Mitchell Starc (27 wickets)

The correct answer is Kyo Soe and Wa Lone (Myanmar).

Key Points

• UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 
• The UNESCO's/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize is awarded for outstanding contribution in the defense and promotion of freedom of press anywhere in the world by any person, organization, or institution.
• It is awarded in memory of Colombian journalist Guillermo Cano Isaza who was assassinated in front of his office on December 17, 1986.
• The Award was funded by the **Cano Foundation and Helsingin Sanomat Foundation (Finland) with the prize money of $45000.**​

Important Points

• Kyo Soe and Wa Lone 
• Wa Lone and Kyo Soe is a Reuters journalist and children's author.
• They were arrested on 12 December 2017 in Myanmar because of their investigation into the Inn Din massacre.
• The 2019 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano Press Freedom Prize was awarded to Wa Lone and Kyo Soe on 11 April 2019 for their "courage and commitment to freedom of expression"$.

The correct answer is Constitutional Amendment.

Key Points

• Part 20 Constitution of India: Amendment of the Constitution 
• Part XX has only one article i.e Article 368 that deals with the amendment of the constitution.
• Article 368
• It deals with the process of the Constitution amendment.
• Article 368 has been amended by the 24^th and 42^nd Amendments in 1971 and 1976 respectively. New clauses 368 (1) and 368 (3) were added by the 24^th Amendment in 1971, which also added a new clause (4) in article 13 which reads, "Nothing in this article shall apply to any amendment of this Constitution made under article 368".
• The amendment process in the constitution is set out in Part  XX of the Indian constitution.
• Article 368 does not set down the legislative process to be followed at various points of the amendment.

The correct answer is France.

Key Points

• France honoured former ISRO chairman A.S. Kiran Kumar in May 2019 with its highest civilian honour.
• A.S. Kiran Kumar
• He is a highly accomplished space scientist and engineer with a distinguished career spanning over four decades at ISRO in the area of satellite payload and applications.
• He started his career at ISRO by entering the Space Application Centre (SAC) in 1975.
• He was conferred with the prestigious honour by France's Ambassador to India Alexandre Ziegler on behalf of the French President.
• During his whole career span at the Indian space agency, including when he was the chairman, Kumar worked to foster ambitious space cooperation between India and France.
• He directly contributed to making it cooperation of the people as well as one of the cornerstones of Indo French strategic partnership.

Additional Information

• France 
• Capital- Paris
• Currency- The French Franc
• President- Emmanuel Macron
• Space Organization: The National Centre for Space Studies.