Q 01/05

What is the capital and largest city of Bhutan?

A) Kathmandu

B) Paro

C) Thimphu

D) Punakha

Answer · why

C) Thimphu

Thimphu, about 2,300 m up in the Himalayas, has no airport of its own: the nearest is at Paro, and the rest of the journey is by road.

Q 02/05

Bhutan is landlocked between which two countries?

A) China and India

B) Nepal and India

C) China and Nepal

D) India and Bangladesh

Answer · why

A) China and India

China and India are its only neighbours: close as they look on a map, Bhutan never touches Nepal, because the Indian state of Sikkim lies between them...

Q 03/05

Bhutan is famous for measuring its progress by which index instead of GDP alone?

A) Gross Domestic Wellbeing

B) National Contentment Rating

C) Human Development Index

D) Gross National Happiness

Answer · why

D) Gross National Happiness

Gross National Happiness was the fourth king's idea, and it travelled: a Bhutanese resolution led the UN to declare 20 March the International Day of ...

Q 04/05

In Dzongkha, Bhutan's own name Druk Yul means what?

A) Valley of the Snow Lion

B) Land of the Thunder Dragon

C) Roof of the World

D) Kingdom of the Clouds

Answer · why

B) Land of the Thunder Dragon

Land of the Thunder Dragon: by tradition, the thunder that rolls through Bhutan's valleys is said to be the voice of dragons.

Q 05/05

Bhutan's capital is one of very few national capitals in the world without a single what?

A) Traffic light

B) Petrol station

C) Taxi rank

D) Roundabout

Answer · why

A) Traffic light

Traffic lights are absent from the capital, where smartly uniformed police stand at the busiest junctions and direct the cars by hand instead.