BHUTAN HISTORY
Q1. Who is known as the father of modern Bhutan?
Answer: Third King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck.
Q2. Who is the father of Gross National Happiness ( GNH ) Philosophy in Bhutan?
Answer: Fourth King Jigme Singye Wangchuck
Q3. In which year His Majesty the fourth King Jigme Singye Wangchuck handover his responsibilities as the monarch to the Crown Prince Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck?
Answer: 9th December, 2006
Q4. When did Guru Padma Sambhawa visit Bhutan?
Answer: 746 A.D
Q5. In which place Guru Padma Sambhawa was born?
Answer: Oddiyana, present day Swat Valley in Pakistan.
Q6. Who wrote the Biography of Guru Padma Sambhawa?
Answer: Khandro Yeshey Tshogyal
Q7. Who invited Guru Padma Sambhawa to Bhutan to recover the Sog (Life force) of Sendha Gyab, the ruler of Bumthang?
Answer: Sindu Raja
Q8. Who were the two consorts of Guru Padma Sambhawa?
Answer: Mendarava & Yeshey Tshogyal
Q9. A year after his first visit to Bhutan, who invited Guru Padma Sambhava to Tibet?
Answer: King Thrisong Detsen.
Q10. When was tertoen Pema Lingpa born?
Answer: 1450
Q11. Who introduced Pachham in Bhutan?
Answer: Tertoen Pema Lingpa
Q12. When was the founder of Chagzampa born?
Answer: 1385
Q13. When was the founder of Chagzampa passed away?
Answer: 1464
Q14. Who was the founder of Chagzampa?
Answer: Thangtong Gyelpo
Q15. When did Thangtong Gyelpo come to Bhutan?
Answer: 1433
Q16. Who founded the Lhapa Kagyup School?
Answer: Gyelwa Lhanangpa
Q17. Who introduced the Dzong system in the country?
Answer: Gyelwa Lhanangpa
Q18. Who was the founder of Drukpa Kagyu?
Answer: Tsangpa Gyarey Yeshey Dorji
Q19. Who introduced the Drukpa Kagyu in Bhutan?
Answer: Phajo Drugom Zhigpo
Q20. Name the eldest son of Phajo Drugom Zhigpo.
Answer: Dampa
Q21. When was the Lam Drukpa Kuenley born?
Answer: 1455
Q22. Lama Drukpa Kuenley is popularly known to the western world as the_____.
Answer: Divine Madman
Q23. What is the full name of Lama Drukpa Kuenley?
Answer: Kuenga Legpai Zangpo
Q24. At what age Pema Lingpa rediscovered treasure from the lake of Mebartsho?
Answer: 25 years in 1475 A.D
Q25. Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal was born in ___.
Answer: 1594 in Tibet
Q26. When did Zhabdrung come to Bhutan?
Answer: 1616 A.D
Q27. Who were the parents of Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyel?
Answer:His father Tenpey Nima and mother Sonam Pelkyi Buthri
Q28. When was the first monk- body established?
Answer: 1623 at Chari Monastery.
Q29. Who was the first Je khenpo in Bhutan?
Answer: Pekar Jungney
Q30. When the Zhadrung retire the affairs of the state and enter the final retreat in Punakha? ( BCSE 2009)?
Answer: 1651 (On the 10th day of the 3rd month of the Iron Rabbit Year).
Q31. What was the title of the highest leader in the seventeenth century? (BCSE 2009)
Answer:Zhabdrung
Q32. When was the death of Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyel officially declared? By whom?
Answer: 1705, the fourth Je khenpo Damchoe Pekar
Q33. What is the name of Monastery built by the Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyel to keep the ashes of his father Tenpey Nima?
Answer: Chari Monastery
Q34. Who was the first Desi of Bhutan?
Answer: Umze Tenzin Drukgyal
Q35.Who was the first Trongsa Poenlop of Bhutan?
Answer: Choegyal Minjur Tenpa
Q36. Choegyal Minjur Tenpa was enthroned as the third Desi in the year____.
Answer: 1667
Q37. When was fourth Desi Gyalse Tenzin Rabgye born?
Answer: 1638
Q38. Who introduced potatoes in Bhutan?
Answer: George Bogle in 1774
Q39. How many Assam and Bengal Duars are there?
Answer: Seven Assam Duars and Eleven Bengal Duars
Q40. Who established the first modern school in Bhutan?
Answer: Gongzim Ugyen Dorji
Q41. In which year Computer introduced in Bhutan?
Answer: 1984
Q42. In which year was television introduced in Bhutan?
Answer: 1999
Q43. In which year was the National Day celebrated for the first time?
Answer: 1971
Q44. When did Bhutan become the member of United Nation Organization ( UNO) ?
Answer: 21st September, 1971
(128th out of 192)
Q45. In which year was treaty of Sinchula signed?
Answer: 11th November, 1865
Q46. In which year was treaty of Punakha signed?
Answer: 8th January, 1910
Q47. When did Bhutan become the member of Universal Postal union ( UPU)?
Answer: 1969
Q48. When did Bhutan become the member of Non Aligned Movement (NAM)?
Answer: 1973
Q49. When was the Royal Advisory Council ( Lodre Tshogde) established?
Answer: 1963
Q50.Gongsar Ugyen was presented with the Insignia of KCIE by the British in 1905. What is the full form of KCIE?
Answer: Knight Commander of Indian Empire
Q51. 54 Desi ruled till 1906 True/ False
Answer: True
Q52. Name the last Druk Desi.
Answer: Chhogley Trulku Yeshe Ngoedrup
Q53. Which Desi serve the longest term from 1744-1763?
Answer: 13th Druk Desi Sherab Wangchuk
Q54. In which year was Jigme Namgyel born?
Answer: 1825
Q55. Jigme Namgyel became the Trongsa Poenlop in the year____.
Answer: 1853
Q56. When did Jigme Namgyel enthrone as the Druk Desi?
Answer: 1870
Q57. Jigme Namgyel passed away in the year____.
Answer: 1881(56 years old)
Q58. When was the King Jigme Wangchuck born?
Answer: 1905
Q59. When was the fourth king Jigme Singye Wangchuck officially married?
Answer: 31st October, 1988
Q60. In which year fourth king Jigme Singye Wangchuck born?
Answer: 11th November, 1955
Q61. Who became the youngest monarch in the world?
Answer: Fourth king Jigme Singye Wangchuck
Q62. In which year was fifth king Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck born?
Answer: 21st February, 1980
Q63. How many princes and princesses does fourth king Jigme Singye Wangchuck have?
Answer: Five princes and five princesses
Q64. In which year was the Her Majesty the Gyaltsuen Jetsuen Pema Wangchuk born?
Answer: 4th June, 1990
Q65. In which year was Gyalsey Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck born?
Answer: C. Calendar: 5th February, 2016
Bhutanese Calendar : 27th Day of the Twelfth month of the Male Fire Monkey year.
Q66. Which Dzong was first named Sangzab Choed Zong? (BCSE 2009)
Answer: Simtokha
Q67. When and where was the first modern school established in Bhutan?
( BCSE 2013)
Answer: 1913 in Haa
Q68. Who is the 8th Reincarnation of Fourth Druk Desi Tenzin Rabgay?
Answer: His Holiness Gelyse Jigme Tenzin Wangpo
Q69.His Majesty the Fifth Druk Gyalpo Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck was born from which Queen?
Answer: Ashi Tshering Yangdon Wangchuck
