Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the Lists : List-I (Day) A. World Wetlands Day B. International Tiger Day C. World Water Day D. International Mother Earth Day List-II (Date) 1. 29 July 2. 22 April 3. 2 February 4. 22 March Code:
- (a)3, 4, 1, 2
- (b)3, 1, 4, 2
- (c)2, 1, 4, 3
- (d)2, 4, 1, 3
Correct — B, 3, 1, 4, 2. Taken one by one: World Wetlands Day is 2 February, which is item 3; International Tiger Day is 29 July, item 1; World Water Day is 22 March, item 4; and International Mother Earth Day is 22 April, item 2. Each date has a reason attached to it that is easier to hold than the number. Wetlands Day marks the day the Ramsar Convention was adopted at Ramsar in Iran, 2 February 1971. World Water Day belongs to March, the month of the northern spring melt and of the UN's water calendar, and it was the opening day of the UN 2023 Water Conference. Mother Earth Day shares its date with the older Earth Day, 22 April. Tiger Day is the odd one out and the only one not on the UN's own list of international days — it was created in 2010 at the Saint Petersburg Tiger Summit in Russia.
- (a)3, 4, 1, 2 — Gets Wetlands Day and Mother Earth Day right and then swaps the middle pair, giving Tiger Day to 22 March and Water Day to 29 July. Water Day is in March; the tiger day belongs to the end of July.
- (c)2, 1, 4, 3 — Only the Tiger and Water entries are right. It moves Wetlands Day to 22 April and Mother Earth Day to 2 February, which reverses the pair that is easiest to fix — 2 February is the Ramsar anniversary.
- (d)2, 4, 1, 3 — Every one of the four is misplaced. It is the option a candidate reaches by pairing the days with the dates in the order they are printed, without matching them at all.
International observances come from two different places, and knowing which is which helps. Most are proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly and appear on the UN's published list of international days — World Water Day and International Mother Earth Day are both of that kind, and World Wetlands Day was later added to it. Others originate with a treaty body, a summit or a campaign and are observed widely without ever being adopted by the General Assembly. International Tiger Day is one of those, born at a heads-of-government summit on tiger conservation.
A matching item is best attacked at the point where you are surest, because the code then does the rest. Here the safest anchor is 2 February for wetlands, since the date is the Ramsar Convention's own anniversary and every option except one gives it either to wetlands or to Mother Earth Day. Fix that and two options fall away at once. The second anchor is 22 April, which most candidates already carry as Earth Day. What is left is the choice between 29 July and 22 March for tigers and water, and water's March date is the more familiar of the two. Note that the four are drawn from three different institutional homes — Ramsar, the UN calendar and a tiger summit — which is the sort of thing worth noticing rather than blurring into one list of dates.
- World Wetlands Day is 2 February, the anniversary of the adoption of the Ramsar Convention at Ramsar, Iran in 1971; it was first celebrated in 1997.
- International Tiger Day, also called Global Tiger Day, is 29 July and was created at the 2010 Saint Petersburg Tiger Summit — it is not a UN-designated day.
- World Water Day is 22 March and appears on the UN's list of international days.
- International Mother Earth Day is 22 April.
- Nearby dates that make good decoys: International Day of Forests 21 March, World Meteorological Day 23 March, World Wildlife Day 3 March.
Anchor on 2 February and 22 April, which most candidates already hold, and the remaining pair follows.
- Assuming every widely observed day is a UN day. The tiger day is not.
- Mixing 22 March with 21 March — forests take the twenty-first, water the twenty-second.
- Answering a matching item from the order in which the two lists are printed instead of pairing them.
As a day-to-date match, as a single date question, or as a statement item on which body proclaimed a particular observance.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
World Wetlands Day is observed on 2 February because on that date
- (a)the Ramsar Convention was adopted
- (b)the Convention on Biological Diversity entered into force
- (c)the Montreux Record was created
- (d)the first Indian Ramsar site was designated
Answer(a) the Ramsar Convention was adopted — at Ramsar in Iran on 2 February 1971.
- practice — not a real PYQ
International Tiger Day owes its origin to
- (a)a UN General Assembly resolution
- (b)the Saint Petersburg Tiger Summit
- (c)the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
- (d)the launch of Project Tiger in India
Answer(b) the Saint Petersburg Tiger Summit — the day was created there in 2010 and is observed on 29 July.