Sikkim GK Multiple Choice Questions
1. The festival “Losar” is celebrated as?
Answer: Tibetan New Year
2. Kailash Mansarovar Yatra is undertaken by which route in Sikkim?
Answer: Nathula pass
3. What is the meaning of the term “Lachen”?
Answer: Big Pass
4. In which year, Sikkim officially declared itself as fully organic state?
Answer: 2016
5. Which Folk Dance belongs to Sikkim?
Answer: Maruni
6. In which year Sikkim became a princely state of British India?
Answer: 1890
7. Which is the largest Buddhist Monastery in Sikkim?
Answer: Rumtek Monastery
8. Which one is recognised as state mammal of Sikkim?
Answer: Red Panda
9. Where is Temi Tea Garden located?
Answer: South Sikkim
10. Who was Sikkim’s last sovereign King?
Answer: Palden Namgyal
11. How many private Universities are in Sikkim?
Answer: Four
12. Total number of members in the Sikkim Legislative Assembly is?
Answer: 32
13. Where is the National Institute of Technology, Sikkim located?
Answer: Ravangla
14. Who was the first Chief Justice of Sikkim High Court?
Answer: Man Mohan Singh Gujral
15. Which monastery is popularly known as Dharma Chakra Centre?
Answer: Rumtek Monastery
16. The Treaty of Titalia was signed between British and Kingdom of Sikkim in the year?
Answer: 1817
17. Where is the only civilian helipad located in Sikkim?
Answer: Gangtok
18. Which festival symbolizes the birth, Enlightenment and achieving nirvana by Lord Buddha?
Answer: Saga Dawa
19. Which one is the only Indian state who shares its border with Sikkim?
Answer: West Bengal
20. Where is Zero Point located in Sikkim?
Answer: Yumthang Valley
21. In which year, the Indo-Sikkimese Treaty was signed?
Answer: 1950
22. What is found in Yumthang Valley?
Answer: Flower Sanctuary
23. In Bangladesh, the Teesta River joins with the?
Answer: Brahmaputra River
24. Name the Folk Wind Instrument made of Bamboo found in Sikkim?
Answer: Panthong Palit
25. Total number of districts in Sikkim?
Answer: 4
26. Who were said to be the original inhabitants of Sikkim?
Answer: Lepchas
27. Who was the first Chief Minister of Sikkim?
Answer: Kazi Lhendup Dorjee
28. In which year Prem Singh Tamang became the Chief Minister of Sikkim?
Answer: 2019
29. Which one is the largest district of Sikkim by area wise?
Answer: North Sikkim District
30. Which is the second capital of the former Kingdom of Sikkim?
Answer: Rabdentse (1670 to 1814)
31. Who was the first chancellor of Sikkim University?
Answer: M. S. Swaminathan
32. Which river is known as the “Lifeline of Sikkim”?
Answer: Teesta River
33. Which one is a left tributary river of Teesta?
Answer: Dik Chhu
34. Which Dynasty ruled Nepal from 1642 to 1975?
Answer: Namgyal Dynasty
35. Which district of Sikkim has been selected as “aspirational” district under NITI Aayog?
Answer: West district
36. Which district is Dzuluk located in?
Answer: East Sikkim
37. The oldest Monastery of Sikkim is?
Answer: Dubdi
38. Which is the first 100% sustainable region in the world?
Answer: Sikkim
39. What is the Sikkim’s highest Civilian Award?
Answer: Sikkim Ratna
40. What is the meaning of “Saga Dawa”?
Answer: Fourth Month
41. Where did the holy men consecrate the first Chogyal of Sikkim?
Answer: Yuksom
42. Where is India’s highest ATM located?
Answer: Nathu La Pass
43. Sikkim is the largest exporter of which of these?
Answer: Large Cardamom
44. Which is the highest Dam in Sikkim?
Answer: Teesta -V Dam (86.8 m above foundation)
45. Who led delegation of British to Sikkim in 1884 to explore a trade route with Tibet through the Lachen valley?
Answer: Colman Macaulay
46. When was Sikkim declared as an Organic State?
Answer: December 2015
47. The total number of recognised official languages in Sikkim is?
Answer: 12
48. When was the Indo-Sikkimese treaty signed?
Answer: 1950
49. The Pakyong airport was inaugurated in?
Answer: 2018
50. What is the rank of Sikkim on Per Capita alcohol consumption amongst all Indian states?
Answer: Third
51. When was the Tamang and Limbu Community granted Tribal Status?
Answer: 2002
52. Which was the closest Operational Airport to Sikkim before Pakyong Airport was built?
Answer: Bagdogra Airport
53. Who was the first Director General of Police?
Answer: Ghatak
54. Which Famous Personality belongs to Sikkim?
Answer: Baichung Bhutia
55. Sikkim Public Service Commission was established in the year?
Answer: 1978
56. Which is the first Greenfield Airport constructed in the Northeastern Region of India?
Answer: Pakyong Airport
57. Who is the first Chogyal of Sikkim?
Answer: Phuntsog Namgyal
58. Tamang Shailo and Rumtek Chaam are the Traditional Dances of which State?
Answer: Sikkim
59. The Treaty of Titalia guaranteed security of Sikkim by the British against?
Answer: Nepal
60. India is connected to which country through Nathu La Pass?
Answer: China
61. When was the historic Indo-Chinese trade route through Nathula reopened?
Answer: 2006
62. The monks of _____ Monastery are entitled to the title “ta-tshang”?
Answer: Permayangtse
63. Which district is the Kirateshwar Mahadev Temple located in?
Answer: West Sikkim
64. After Sikkim, which North-East state has been officially declared Open Defecation Free (ODF)?
Answer: Arunachal Pradesh
65. Which district is Fambong Lho Wildlife Sanctuary located in?
Answer: East Sikkim
66. The Rangit dam is build across which tributary of Tista River in Sikkim?
Answer: Rangit River
67. Paljor Stadium in Sikkim is associated with which Sport?
Answer: Football
68. The total number of recognised official languages in Sikkim is?
Answer: 11
69. Which supercomputer does NIT Sikkim hold at their campus?
Answer: PARAM Kanchenjunga
70. Which one is recognised as the state animal of Sikkim?
Answer: Red Panda
71. As per the Koppen’s classification of the Indian climate, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh are the part of which climatic region?
Answer: Cold Humid type
72. In which year, Sikkim becomes a part of India as its 22nd state?
Answer: 1975
73. Which Bollywood personality has become the official brand ambassador of Sikkim?
Answer: AR Rahman
74. The legislature of Sikkim is?
Answer: Unicameral
75. Which one is the largest buddhist monastery in Sikkim?
Answer: Rumtek Monastery
76. Who is last Chogyal of Sikkim?
Answer: Palden Thondup Namgyal
77. Sisekpa Tumyen is a festival celebrated by which community?
Answer: Limbu
78. When did Sikkim cede Darjeeling to the British?
Answer: 1835
79. The Khangchendzonga National Park occupies approximately _____ area of Sikkim?
Answer: 40%
80. Dress regulations and Finger print section in the Sikkim Police Department was first introduced by?
Answer: S.K. Anand
81. In which district the Yumthang Valley of Flowers Sanctuary is located?
Answer: North Sikkim
82. How many sanctuaries are there in Sikkim?
Answer: 7
83. When Sikkim becomes first state in India with 100 percent sanitation coverage?
Answer: 2014
84. Temi Tea Garden, which is the only tea garden in Sikkim is located in?
Answer: South Sikkim District
85. Which range separates Sikkim from Nepal?
Answer: Singalila Range
86. Which festival is celebrated to pay homage to Mount Kanchenjunga in Sikkim?
Answer: Pang Lhabsol
87. Sikkim was included in North East council of states in the year?
Answer: 2002
88. Which National Highway connects Gangtok with Siliguri?
Answer: NH 10
89. Number of Sub Divisions in Sikkim is?
Answer: 16
90. Who was the first Speaker of the Sikkim Legislative Assembly?
Answer: C.S. Roy
91. Which Article in Indian constitution give special provision for Sikkim?
Answer: 371 F
92. Which one was the first capital of Sikkim Kingdom?
Answer: Yuksom
93. Which one Monastery is described as the “Heart of Sikkim/Denzong”?
Answer: Tashiding Monastery
94. The Nathu La pass connects India with?
Answer: China
95. Which is not a Pass in East Sikkim?
Answer: Chiwabhanjang
96. Who is the first Governor of Sikkim?
Answer: B. B. Lal
97. Who became the third Chief Minister of Sikkim from 11 may until 24 may 1984, the shortest term in history of Sikkim?
Answer: B.B. Goorung
98. By which amendment Sikkim become a full State of India?
Answer: 36th Amendment
99. Who was the first political officer of Sikkim?
Answer: John Claude White
100. When Sikkim High Court was established?
Answer: 16th May 1975
101. Tashiding Monastery was built in the reign of?
Answer: Chakdor Namgyal