Indian States & UTs Quiz: Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu GK

The Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (Merger of Union Territories) Act was passed in 2019 but was brought into force on Republic Day 2020, merging the two small Union Territories into one with its capital at Daman.

The correct answer is C, Daman, which was made the capital of the merged Union Territory in 2020.

The correct answer is B, three: Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu.

The correct answer is A, the Tenth Amendment of 1961, which inserted Dadra and Nagar Haveli into the Constitution as a Union Territory; the area had been freed from Portuguese rule by volunteers in 1954 and administered separately until then.

The correct answer is B, Operation Vijay of December 1961, in which the Indian armed forces took Goa, Daman and Diu from Portugal, ending more than four centuries of Portuguese rule on the western coast.

The correct answer is B, the Daman Ganga, which rises in the Western Ghats, flows west through Dadra and Nagar Haveli and reaches the Arabian Sea at Daman, splitting the town into Nani Daman on the north bank and Moti Daman on the south; the Madhuban dam on this river…

Silvassa is the chief town of that landlocked district and was the capital of the former Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli before the merger of 2020; it is also the industrial heart of the territory, with large estates for textiles, plastics, engineering and chemicals, and it holds the…

Diu lies off the southern edge of the Kathiawar or Saurashtra peninsula of Gujarat and is joined to the mainland by bridges across a narrow creek; the Portuguese obtained it in 1535 by a treaty with Sultan Bahadur Shah of Gujarat and built the fort that still dominates the island.

The correct answer is B, the Bombay High Court, whose jurisdiction extends over Maharashtra, Goa and this Union Territory, with benches at Nagpur, Aurangabad and Panaji.

The correct answer is B, the Varli, the largest Scheduled Tribe of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, found also in the neighbouring districts of Maharashtra and Gujarat; their ritual wall art, called Warli painting, is done in white rice paste on a mud wall and builds human figures from two triangles…

The correct answer is A, Daman and Diu, which recorded the lowest number of females per thousand males of any state or Union Territory at the Census of 2011; the figure reflects a large male migrant workforce drawn to its industrial estates, factories and port work rather than a difference…