Goa is a state in India within the coastal region known as the Konkan in India. It is bounded by Maharashtra to the north and Karnataka to the east and south, with the Arabian Sea forming its Western coast. It is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Goa has the highest GDP per capita among all Indian states, that is two and a half times that of the country. It was ranked the best placed state by the "Eleventh Finance Commission" for its infrastructure and ranked on top for the best quality of life in India by the National Commission on Population based on the 12 Indicators.

Panaji is the state's capital, while Vasco da Gama is its largest city. The historic city of Margao still exhibits the cultural influence of the Portuguese, who first landed in the early 16th century as merchants and conquered it soon thereafter. Goa is a former Portuguese province; the Portuguese overseas territory of Portuguese India existed for about 450 years until it was annexed by India in 1961.

Goa is visited by large numbers of international and domestic tourists each year for its beaches, places of worship and world heritage architecture. It has rich flora and fauna, owing to its location on the Western Ghats range, a biodiversity hotspot. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Is Goa near the sea?
2. Which one?
3. What is its capital?
4. Is it the largest city?
5. Does it have any historic city?
6. Which one?
7. Which culture's history it represents?
8. When they came there?
9. Why they came there?
10. Did they eventually conquer it?
11. Was it a province of a country?
12. How long it existed as Portuguese overseas territory?
13. Then who got it?
14. When?
15. What is it famous for?
16. How about flora and fauna?
17. Where it stands among Indian states in GDP?
18. How large is it compared to others?
19. How large its population compared to other states?
20. How about by area?
Answer: 1. yes
2. Arabian Sea
3. Panaji
4. Vasco da Gama
5. yes
6. Margao
7. Portuguese
8. 16th century
9. merchant things
10. yes
11. Goa
12. 450 years
13. India
14. 1961
15. beaches
16. that too
17. the highest
18. two and a half times larger
19. fourth smallest
20. the smallest

(CNN) -- After months of bloodshed, intrigue and revenge that made Yemen seem like an Arabian version of Hamlet, President Ali Abdullah Saleh has finally transferred his powers to his vice president, and elections are to be held in three months.

At the ceremony in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to seal the transition deal worked out by the Gulf Cooperation Council, Saleh seemed relaxed and even chuckled as he signed several copies of the agreement, the result of intense diplomatic shuttling by U.N. envoy Jamal bin Omar and growing pressure from the international community.

But Saleh also took a parting shot at his opponents, saying they had destroyed in months everything that had been built over years.

April Longley Alley, Yemen analyst at the International Crisis Group, says the Riyadh deal offers an "opportunity to move past the current political impasse and to deal with critical issues like deteriorating economic and humanitarian conditions as well as the very difficult task of institutional reform."

Even so, Longley Alley and other analysts expect the epilogue to be anything but predictable. There are plenty of competing elements left behind: the thousands of mainly young demonstrators who took to the streets of Sanaa and other cities in January to demand democratic change, the tribal alliance that took up arms against Saleh, secessionists in the south and a Shiite rebellion in the north, well-organized Islamist groups and a budding al Qaeda franchise.

Perhaps the most powerful figure in Yemen now is Brig. Gen. Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, commander of the 1st Armored Division. He defected in March and took a chunk of the army with him. His units now control northern districts of the capital and are facing off against powerful remnants of the Saleh clan. The president's son, Ahmed Ali Abdullah Saleh, long groomed to be his successor, and his nephew, Yahya Muhammad Saleh, command the most effective units. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Where did the bloodshed occur
2. Name the president who transferred his power?
3. to who?
4. When will the election take place?
5. What was happening at the ceremony?
6. How was Saleh's reaction?
7. did he sign papers?
8. Did he blame his opponents?
9. What did he say?
10. Name the UN envoy?
Answer: 1. unknown
2. President Ali Abdullah Saleh s
3. to his vice president
4. three months.
5. to seal the transition deal worked out by the Gulf Cooperation Council
6. seemed relaxed
7. Yes
8. Yes
9. they had destroyed in months everything that had been built over years.
10. Jamal bin Omar

"Reading makes a full man" (Bacon, 1597). Novels written by the writers like Jane Austen, Victor Hugo and Ernest Hemingway help us to know more about our history, culture and many other things. Jane Austen(.) was one of the most well-known women writers of the world. She was born in England in 1775. Jane loved reading and writing. She wrote a number of famous novels in her life. Among them, Pride and Prejudice<<>> written in 1779 was the most popular. Victor Hugo(.), born in 1802 in France, was one of the best writers in the19th century. The talent in writing and hard work brought great success to Hugo at an early age. His most popular novel, theHunchback of Notre-Dame<>, was written in 1831. The book was so successful that it was quickly translated into many other languages across Europe. Ernest Hemingway(.), an outstanding American writer and reporter, was born in 1899. His life experience had a great influence on his writing style. Hemingway lived in France and Italy between the 1920s and 1950s. Most of his books such as The Sun Also Rises were written at that time. He won the Nobel Prize in 1954 mainly because of the novel The Old Man and the Sea. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who won a Nobel Prize?
2. When?
3. Why?
4. How many other authors were mentioned?
5. Who were they?
6. Where was Jane Austen from?
7. What did she write?
8. When?
9. Where was Hugo born?
10. Where?
11. What was he famous for?
12. What is that?
13. When did he pen it?
14. Was it successful?
15. Where was Hemingway from?
Answer:
1. Ernest Hemingway
2. 1954
3. mainly because of the novel The Old Man and the Sea.
4. Three
5. ane Austen, Victor Hugo and Ernest Hemingway
6. England
7. Pride and Prejudice
8. 1779
9. 1802
10. France
11. Hunchback of Notre-Dame
12. novel
13. 1831
14. Yes
15. American