Quiz on First in Bhutan
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Quiz on First in Bhutan – Round 1
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central
School, Bhutan
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1. When
was the new monetary system established in Bhutan?
2. When was Buddhism introduced to Bhutan?
3. When was Bhutan Board of Examination
established?
4. When did the first SAARC summit in Bhutan take place?
5. When was the Drukpa Kagyupa School established in Bhutan?
6. When was BBS
established?
7. When was the National Law of Bhutan started?
8. When was Road Safety and Transport Act in Bhutan passed?
9. When was the first bilateral agreement
between China (PRC) and Bhutan signed?
10. When did Internet arrive in Bhutan?
11. Name the first prime minister of Bhutan under the democratically elected
government.
12. When was the note of National Anthem adopted?
13. When did Radio Broadcasting begin in Bhutan?
14. Which First European (Portuguese) visited Bhutan in 1629?
15. When did the Duar War between Bhutan and British India start?
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Answer
1.
1974
2.
9th century A.D
3.
1982
4.
April 2010
5.
12th century A.D
6.
1979
7.
1958
8.
1997
9.
1998
10. 1999
11. Lyonchen Jigme Yoeser Thinley
12. 1953
13. 1973
14. Jesuits
15. 1864
Quiz on First in Bhutan – Round 2
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central
School, Bhutan
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1. When did Bhutan join the United Nations?
2. When was Bank of Bhutan management nationalized?
3. When was Penden Cement Authority Ltd. Commissioned?
4. When was the new monetary system established in Bhutan?
5. When was the first Bhutanese currency notes released?
6. Where was the first Junior College opened in
1976?
7. In 1961 what development plan was introduced
in Bhutan?
8. When was Royal Bhutan Embassy established in New Delhi?
9. When did Guru Padmasambhava come to Bhutan?
10. When was The Bhutan Broadcasting Services (BBS), the television centre
in Thimphu inaugurated?
11. When was National
Assembly of Bhutan (Tshogdu) established?
12. When was Druk Air BAe-146 jet services introduced in Bhutan?
13. When was Citizenship law enacted in Bhutan?
14. When was the Prime Minister Jigme Palden Dorji assassinated?
15. When was Tourism introduced in Bhutan?
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Answer
1.
1971
2.
1997
3.
1980
4.
1974
5.
1974
6.
Sherubtse, Kanglung
7.
First Five-Year Economic
Development Plan
8.
1978
9.
747 A.D
10. 3 June, 2009
11. 1949
12. 1987
13. 21st August, 1926
14. 1964
15. 1974
Quiz on First in Bhutan – Round 3
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central
School, Bhutan
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1. When was Royal
Monetary Authority 'established?
2. When was a Bhutan Postal Corporation Act Passed?
3. When was the Bon religion introduced in
Bhutan?
4. Where and when the First internet cafe was opened in Bhutan?
5. When was the No
Objection Certificate (NOC) introduced in Bhutan?
6. When was Police Act Passed?
7. When was Druk Air Dornier flights started in Bhutan?
8. When was the State Trading Corporation of Bhutan (STCB) privatized?
9. When was BST (Bhutan Standard Time- + 6.00 GMT) introduced?
10. When was Degree courses introduced at Sherubtse College, Trashigang?
11. When was the Companies Act of Bhutan passed?
12. When was Cable
television and internet services allowed in Bhutan?
13. When was Prisoner's Act passed?
14. When was Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) established?
15. When was Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Bhutan established?
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Answer
1.
1983
2.
1996
3.
6th
century AD
4.
Thimphu, 2000
5.
1990
6.
1980
7.
1983
8.
1997
9.
1980
10. 1983
11. 1996
12. 1999
13. 1982
14. 1982
15. 1980
Quiz on First in Bhutan – Round 4
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central
School, Bhutan
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1. When was SW (Short Wave) transmission in radio introduced in Bhutan?
2. When was Marriage Act and Loan Act amended in Bhutan?
3. When was Coin like stamps issued in Bhutan for the first time?
4. When did Bhutan host the SAARC summit in Thimphu?
5. When was the Civil Aviation Department established in Bhutan?
6. When was Royal Institute of Management established in Bhutan?
7. When did Ratified Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of
Discrimination against Women begin in Bhutan?
8. When was the Bilateral Free Trade Agreement between Bangladesh and
Bhutan re-signed
9. In which year did
Bhutan celebrate its first centenary of the glories period of the Monarchy?
10. Who introduced potatoes in Bhutan for the first time?
11. When was Royal Monetary Act of Bhutan passed?
12. When was Tax policy in Bhutan introduced?
13. When was Inheritance Act Passed?
14. When was Marriage Act Passed?
15. When was a Financial Institutions Act and National Security Act passed
in Bhutan?
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Answer
1.
1979
2.
1996
3.
1966
4.
April 2010
5.
1986
6.
1986
7.
1981
8.
May 2003
9.
2008
10. George Bogle
11. 1982
12. 1983
13. 1980
14. 1908
15. 1991
Quiz on First in Bhutan – Round 5
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central
School, Bhutan
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1. When were Mines and Minerals Act, and Forest and Nature
Conservation Acts passed in Bhutan?
2. When was Loan Act Passed?
3. When was Livestock Act Passed?
4. When was District
Development Committees established in Bhutan?
5. When was 4th Five Year Plan launched in Bhutan?
6. When was Land Acquisition Act passed in Bhutan?
7. When Explosives Act, Company Act and the Royal Advisory Council Act
were passed in Bhutan?
8. When was the Convention on Chemical Weapons signed?
9. In which year was the Treaty of Friendship signed with newly-independent
India on Aug 08?
10. Name the first American to visit the Bhutan in 1951?
11. When did Bhutan
produce its first postage stamps for national use?
12. In which year Bhutan Post released the first CD-ROM postage stamps in
the world?
13. When was potatoes introduced in Bhutan?
14. When was the first Chhoetse Penlop appointed in Bhutan?
15. When a unit called the “Inspectorate of Schools” established in Bhutan?
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Answer
1.
1995
2.
1980
3.
1980
4.
1981
5.
1976
6.
1986
7.
1989
8.
1997
9.
1949
10. Burt Kerr Todd
11. 1962
12. 2008
13. 1774
14. 1964
15. Mid-1980s
Quiz on First in Bhutan – Round 6
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central
School, Bhutan
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1. When was Election Commission established in Bhutan?
2. When did Paro see its first motor vehicle?
3. When did Thimphu see its first motor vehicle?
4. In which year Motor
Vehicle Act passed in Bhutan?
5. When was the Customs Act in Bhutan passed?
6. When was an IDD service (International Direct Dialling services)
introduced in Bhutan?
7. When was the Special Commission for Cultural Affairs Established in
Bhutan?
8. When did the Indian prime minister,
Jawaharlal Nehru, and his daughter, Indra Gandhi, to visit Bhutan for the first
time?
9. When was Airmail, DHL and express mail services introduced in Bhutan?
10. When were Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substance Notification Act
passed in Bhutan?
11. Who first discovered the national flower of Bhutan- Blue Puppy in 1933 in a remote part of
Sakteng in eastern Bhutan?
12. When was the modern postal system introduced?
13. When was the Army Welfare Committee
established?
14. When was the Royal Bhutan Army organized as a
regular military force in Bhutan?
15. When was Dashain declared as a national holiday in Bhutan?
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Answer
1.
31st December
2005, by Royal Decree
2.
1964
3.
1962
4.
1976
5.
1979
6.
1990
7.
1986
8.
1958
9.
1993
10. 1988
11. British botanist George
Sherriff
12. 1962
13. 1978
14. 1950
15. 1980
Quiz on First in Bhutan – Round 7
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central
School, Bhutan
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1. Who instituted Chhoetse Penlop (Trongsa Penlop) system in Bhutan?
2. When was the concept of monitoring and support services in education
system established?
3. Name the first party to be formed in Bhutan?
4. When was Cadre System in
Bhutan introduced?
5. When was a Land Act passed in Bhutan?
6. When was the Stamp Act in Bhutan passed?
7. When did Bhutan first move toward a
constitutional monarchy with the foundation of its National Assembly?
8. When was the Integrated Fisheries Development
Project started at Gelephu?
9. When did the Department of Animal Husbandry
establish a Fishery Development Programme, initially for stocking rivers with
game fish and for developing commercial capability as a long-term goal?
10. In which year was the High-technology
windmill in Wangdiphodrang installed to produce electricity to run irrigation
pumps?
11. Name the first Bhutanese
ruler to confront British power, losing in a power bid in Cooch Behar, a
traditional Bhutanese dependency.
12. When was the Bhutan Development Finance
Corporation established?
13. When was the Textile Museum inaugurated?
14. In which year Bhutan declared Dzongkha as a medium for official
communication?
15. When was BCSR-Bhutan Civil Service Rules introduced?
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Answer
1.
Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyel
2.
1968
3.
PDP (People’s Democratic
Party)
4.
1989
5.
1978
6.
1978
7.
1953
8.
1985
9.
1977
10. 1987
11. Druk Desi Sonam Lhundup
12. 1988
13. June, 2001
14. 1995
15. 1971
Quiz on First in Bhutan – Round 8
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central
School, Bhutan
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1.
When did Bhutan open
mountaineering?
2.
When was Dzongkha
incorporated in the ISCE as vernacular?
3.
When was the first National
Festival of Arts and Craft organized in Thimphu, Bhutan?
4.
When was the National
Library of Bhutan established?
5.
When was the National Legal
Course introduced in Bhutan?
6.
When was BNB (Bhutan
National Bank) opened in Bhutan?
7.
When did TTC host the joint
convocation with NIE for the first time?
8.
When was RIM (Royal
Institute of Management) established in Bhutan?
9.
When
was the national dress of Bhutan introduced?
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Answer
1.
1983
2.
1972
3.
1996
4.
1967
5.
1995
6.
1996
7.
25th December,
1999
8.
1996
9.
17th
century
Quiz on First in Bhutan – Round 1
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central
School, Bhutan
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1. When
was the new monetary system established in Bhutan?
2. When was Buddhism introduced to Bhutan?
3. When was Bhutan Board of Examination
established?
4. When did the first SAARC summit in Bhutan take place?
5. When was the Drukpa Kagyupa School established in Bhutan?
6. When was BBS
established?
7. When was the National Law of Bhutan started?
8. When was Road Safety and Transport Act in Bhutan passed?
9. When was the first bilateral agreement
between China (PRC) and Bhutan signed?
10. When did Internet arrive in Bhutan?
11. Name the first prime minister of Bhutan under the democratically elected
government.
12. When was the note of National Anthem adopted?
13. When did Radio Broadcasting begin in Bhutan?
14. Which First European (Portuguese) visited Bhutan in 1629?
15. When did the Duar War between Bhutan and British India start?
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Answer
1.
1974
2.
9th century A.D
3.
1982
4.
April 2010
5.
12th century A.D
6.
1979
7.
1958
8.
1997
9.
1998
10. 1999
11. Lyonchen Jigme Yoeser Thinley
12. 1953
13. 1973
14. Jesuits
15. 1864
Quiz on First in Bhutan – Round 2
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central
School, Bhutan
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1. When did Bhutan join the United Nations?
2. When was Bank of Bhutan management nationalized?
3. When was Penden Cement Authority Ltd. Commissioned?
4. When was the new monetary system established in Bhutan?
5. When was the first Bhutanese currency notes released?
6. Where was the first Junior College opened in
1976?
7. In 1961 what development plan was introduced
in Bhutan?
8. When was Royal Bhutan Embassy established in New Delhi?
9. When did Guru Padmasambhava come to Bhutan?
10. When was The Bhutan Broadcasting Services (BBS), the television centre
in Thimphu inaugurated?
11. When was National
Assembly of Bhutan (Tshogdu) established?
12. When was Druk Air BAe-146 jet services introduced in Bhutan?
13. When was Citizenship law enacted in Bhutan?
14. When was the Prime Minister Jigme Palden Dorji assassinated?
15. When was Tourism introduced in Bhutan?
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Answer
1.
1971
2.
1997
3.
1980
4.
1974
5.
1974
6.
Sherubtse, Kanglung
7.
First Five-Year Economic
Development Plan
8.
1978
9.
747 A.D
10. 3 June, 2009
11. 1949
12. 1987
13. 21st August, 1926
14. 1964
15. 1974
Quiz on First in Bhutan – Round 3
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central
School, Bhutan
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1. When was Royal
Monetary Authority 'established?
2. When was a Bhutan Postal Corporation Act Passed?
3. When was the Bon religion introduced in
Bhutan?
4. Where and when the First internet cafe was opened in Bhutan?
5. When was the No
Objection Certificate (NOC) introduced in Bhutan?
6. When was Police Act Passed?
7. When was Druk Air Dornier flights started in Bhutan?
8. When was the State Trading Corporation of Bhutan (STCB) privatized?
9. When was BST (Bhutan Standard Time- + 6.00 GMT) introduced?
10. When was Degree courses introduced at Sherubtse College, Trashigang?
11. When was the Companies Act of Bhutan passed?
12. When was Cable
television and internet services allowed in Bhutan?
13. When was Prisoner's Act passed?
14. When was Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) established?
15. When was Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Bhutan established?
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Answer
1.
1983
2.
1996
3.
6th
century AD
4.
Thimphu, 2000
5.
1990
6.
1980
7.
1983
8.
1997
9.
1980
10. 1983
11. 1996
12. 1999
13. 1982
14. 1982
15. 1980
Quiz on First in Bhutan – Round 4
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central
School, Bhutan
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1. When was SW (Short Wave) transmission in radio introduced in Bhutan?
2. When was Marriage Act and Loan Act amended in Bhutan?
3. When was Coin like stamps issued in Bhutan for the first time?
4. When did Bhutan host the SAARC summit in Thimphu?
5. When was the Civil Aviation Department established in Bhutan?
6. When was Royal Institute of Management established in Bhutan?
7. When did Ratified Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of
Discrimination against Women begin in Bhutan?
8. When was the Bilateral Free Trade Agreement between Bangladesh and
Bhutan re-signed
9. In which year did
Bhutan celebrate its first centenary of the glories period of the Monarchy?
10. Who introduced potatoes in Bhutan for the first time?
11. When was Royal Monetary Act of Bhutan passed?
12. When was Tax policy in Bhutan introduced?
13. When was Inheritance Act Passed?
14. When was Marriage Act Passed?
15. When was a Financial Institutions Act and National Security Act passed
in Bhutan?
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Answer
1.
1979
2.
1996
3.
1966
4.
April 2010
5.
1986
6.
1986
7.
1981
8.
May 2003
9.
2008
10. George Bogle
11. 1982
12. 1983
13. 1980
14. 1908
15. 1991
Quiz on First in Bhutan – Round 5
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central
School, Bhutan
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1. When were Mines and Minerals Act, and Forest and Nature
Conservation Acts passed in Bhutan?
2. When was Loan Act Passed?
3. When was Livestock Act Passed?
4. When was District
Development Committees established in Bhutan?
5. When was 4th Five Year Plan launched in Bhutan?
6. When was Land Acquisition Act passed in Bhutan?
7. When Explosives Act, Company Act and the Royal Advisory Council Act
were passed in Bhutan?
8. When was the Convention on Chemical Weapons signed?
9. In which year was the Treaty of Friendship signed with newly-independent
India on Aug 08?
10. Name the first American to visit the Bhutan in 1951?
11. When did Bhutan
produce its first postage stamps for national use?
12. In which year Bhutan Post released the first CD-ROM postage stamps in
the world?
13. When was potatoes introduced in Bhutan?
14. When was the first Chhoetse Penlop appointed in Bhutan?
15. When a unit called the “Inspectorate of Schools” established in Bhutan?
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Answer
1.
1995
2.
1980
3.
1980
4.
1981
5.
1976
6.
1986
7.
1989
8.
1997
9.
1949
10. Burt Kerr Todd
11. 1962
12. 2008
13. 1774
14. 1964
15. Mid-1980s
Quiz on First in Bhutan – Round 6
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central
School, Bhutan
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1. When was Election Commission established in Bhutan?
2. When did Paro see its first motor vehicle?
3. When did Thimphu see its first motor vehicle?
4. In which year Motor
Vehicle Act passed in Bhutan?
5. When was the Customs Act in Bhutan passed?
6. When was an IDD service (International Direct Dialling services)
introduced in Bhutan?
7. When was the Special Commission for Cultural Affairs Established in
Bhutan?
8. When did the Indian prime minister,
Jawaharlal Nehru, and his daughter, Indra Gandhi, to visit Bhutan for the first
time?
9. When was Airmail, DHL and express mail services introduced in Bhutan?
10. When were Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substance Notification Act
passed in Bhutan?
11. Who first discovered the national flower of Bhutan- Blue Puppy in 1933 in a remote part of
Sakteng in eastern Bhutan?
12. When was the modern postal system introduced?
13. When was the Army Welfare Committee
established?
14. When was the Royal Bhutan Army organized as a
regular military force in Bhutan?
15. When was Dashain declared as a national holiday in Bhutan?
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Answer
1.
31st December
2005, by Royal Decree
2.
1964
3.
1962
4.
1976
5.
1979
6.
1990
7.
1986
8.
1958
9.
1993
10. 1988
11. British botanist George
Sherriff
12. 1962
13. 1978
14. 1950
15. 1980
Quiz on First in Bhutan – Round 7
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central
School, Bhutan
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1. Who instituted Chhoetse Penlop (Trongsa Penlop) system in Bhutan?
2. When was the concept of monitoring and support services in education
system established?
3. Name the first party to be formed in Bhutan?
4. When was Cadre System in
Bhutan introduced?
5. When was a Land Act passed in Bhutan?
6. When was the Stamp Act in Bhutan passed?
7. When did Bhutan first move toward a
constitutional monarchy with the foundation of its National Assembly?
8. When was the Integrated Fisheries Development
Project started at Gelephu?
9. When did the Department of Animal Husbandry
establish a Fishery Development Programme, initially for stocking rivers with
game fish and for developing commercial capability as a long-term goal?
10. In which year was the High-technology
windmill in Wangdiphodrang installed to produce electricity to run irrigation
pumps?
11. Name the first Bhutanese
ruler to confront British power, losing in a power bid in Cooch Behar, a
traditional Bhutanese dependency.
12. When was the Bhutan Development Finance
Corporation established?
13. When was the Textile Museum inaugurated?
14. In which year Bhutan declared Dzongkha as a medium for official
communication?
15. When was BCSR-Bhutan Civil Service Rules introduced?
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Answer
1.
Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyel
2.
1968
3.
PDP (People’s Democratic
Party)
4.
1989
5.
1978
6.
1978
7.
1953
8.
1985
9.
1977
10. 1987
11. Druk Desi Sonam Lhundup
12. 1988
13. June, 2001
14. 1995
15. 1971
Quiz on First in Bhutan – Round 8
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central
School, Bhutan
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1.
When did Bhutan open
mountaineering?
2.
When was Dzongkha
incorporated in the ISCE as vernacular?
3.
When was the first National
Festival of Arts and Craft organized in Thimphu, Bhutan?
4.
When was the National
Library of Bhutan established?
5.
When was the National Legal
Course introduced in Bhutan?
6.
When was BNB (Bhutan
National Bank) opened in Bhutan?
7.
When did TTC host the joint
convocation with NIE for the first time?
8.
When was RIM (Royal
Institute of Management) established in Bhutan?
9.
When
was the national dress of Bhutan introduced?
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Answer
1.
1983
2.
1972
3.
1996
4.
1967
5.
1995
6.
1996
7.
25th December,
1999
8.
1996
9.
17th
century
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