Question: What geographical part of Kathmandu did Yambu once occupy?
Answer: northern

Question: Speakers of what languages sometimes call Kathmandu Yambu?
Answer: Sino-Tibetan

Question: Where in Kathmandu was Yengal located?
Answer: southern half

Question: What religion did the Sankhu monastery belong to?
Answer: Buddhist

Question: Who won the war between the Licchavis and the Kiratas?
Answer: Licchavis

Question: Who did the migrating Shakyas pretend to be?
Answer: Koliyas

Question: What sect of Buddhism is the only remaining one based in Sanskrit?
Answer: Newar

Question: Who killed the Shakyas?
Answer: Virudhaka

Question: Under the Licchavi dynasty, what name was typically used to refer to Yengal?
Answer: Dakshin Koligram

Question: Kathmandu resulted from the merger of what two settlements?
Answer: Dakshin Koligram

Question: Who is Kathmandu's historical founder?
Answer: Gunakamadeva

Question: Who did Chandrahrasa belong to?
Answer: Manjushri

Question: How many barracks guarded ancient Kathmandu?
Answer: eight

Question: Trade between what two countries typically went through ancient Kathmandu?
Answer: India and Tibet

Question: Who ruled Nepal after the Licchavi?
Answer: Malla

Question: Along with Khas, who attacked Nepal in the early Malla period?
Answer: Turk Muslims

Question: What fraction of Kathmandu's population died in an ancient earthquake?
Answer: third

Question: Along with the Mangriha, what Licchavi-era building was destroyed in an ancient earthquake?
Answer: Kailashkut Bhawan

Question: What notable Nepali figure died in a Kathmandu earthquake?
Answer: Abhaya Malla

Question: How many cities were present in the Kathmandu Valley in the late Malla period?
Answer: four

Question: In the waning years of the Malla dynasty, what fortified cities existed in the Kathmandu Valley?
Answer: Kantipur, Lalitpur, Bhaktapur, and Kirtipur

Question: What cultures influenced Nepal in the later Malla era?
Answer: India, Tibet, China, Persia, and Europe

Question: What is an example of a book of medicine from the Malla period?
Answer: Haramekhala

Question: When does Amarkosh date to?
Answer: 1381

Question: Who won the Battle of Kathmandu?
Answer: Gorkha Kingdom

Question: What battle inaugurated the conquering of the Kathmandu Valley by the Gorkha?
Answer: Kirtipur

Question: How many stories high was the Basantapur tower?
Answer: nine

Question: What European country did Bhimsen Thapa oppose?
Answer: Great Britain

Question: How many stories made up the Dharahara tower?
Answer: nine

Question: What river is south of Kathmandu?
Answer: Bagmati

Question: What geographic portion of the Kathmandu Valley houses Kathmandu?
Answer: northwestern

Question: About how many feet above sea level is Kathmandu?
Answer: 4,600

Question: How large is Kathmandu in terms of square miles?
Answer: 19.56

Question: Where does the Lalitpur Sub-Metropolitan City stand in relation to the Bagmati River?
Answer: south

Question: How many rivers travel through Kathmandu?
Answer: eight

Question: Where did the canal that once terminated in Kathmandu originate?
Answer: Nagarjuna hill

Question: How many feet high are the mountains from which the Bagmati flows?
Answer: 4,900–9,800

Question: How many districts make up the Kathmandu Valley urban area?
Answer: three

Question: What are Madhyapur Thimi, Kirtipur and Bhaktapur?
Answer: municipalities

Question: How many sub-metropolitan cities are present in the districts that make up the Kathmandu valley?
Answer: 1

Question: About how many people live in a square kilometer in Gonggabu VDC?
Answer: 20,000

Question: What is another term for VDCs?
Answer: villages

Question: What is the Kathmandu Valley's average temperature in winter, in degrees Fahrenheit?
Answer: 50.2

Question: Along with a subtropical highland climate, what climate classification covers Kathmandu?
Answer: humid subtropical climate

Question: What is the Köppen abbreviation for a humid subtropical climate?
Answer: Cwa

Question: How many meters up is the Cool Temperate Zone?
Answer: 2,100–3,300

Question: How many significant climate regions exist in Nepal?
Answer: Five

Question: What sort of temperature is typical on a Kathmandu morning?
Answer: cool

Question: About what percentage of Kathmandu's annual rainfall falls during the monsoon months?
Answer: 65

Question: On what date in 2013 was it 15.4 degrees Fahrenheit in Kathmandu?
Answer: January 10

Question: In what months does the monsoon occur in Nepal?
Answer: June to August

Question: In what year did the most rain in recorded history fall on Kathmandu?
Answer: 2003

Question: What religion proliferated throughout Central Asia in part due to the efforts of Lhasa Newar merchants?
Answer: Buddhism

Question: Existing between what two countries contributed to Kathmandu becoming a center of trade?
Answer: India and China

Question: Other than trade, what was the traditional basis of Kathmandu's economy?
Answer: agriculture

Question: Approximately what portion of Nepal's GDP is produced by the Kathmandu metropolitan area?
Answer: one third

Question: What do Kathmandu residents earn per capita each year?
Answer: $2200

Question: What is the GDP of Kathmandu?
Answer: 6.5billion

Question: What percentage of Kathmandu's economy is trade?
Answer: 21

Question: What portion of Kathmandu's economy consists of agriculture?
Answer: 9%

Question: Approximately when did the Nepalese tourism industry begin?
Answer: 1950

Question: What city was connected to Kathmandu via the Tribhuvan Highway?
Answer: Raxaul

Question: When did construction on the Tribhuvan Highway begin?
Answer: 1956

Question: What is the most significant industry in Nepal?
Answer: tourism

Question: Along with Buddhists, what religion's devotees visit Kathmandu?
Answer: Hindu

Question: How many tourists visited Kathmandu in the period 1961-62?
Answer: 6,179

Question: What event led to an increase in tourism in 2009?
Answer: end of the Maoist insurgency

Question: What Nepalese mountains are claimed to attract tourists?
Answer: Himalayas

Question: What Kathmandu neighborhood is noted for its abundance of tourists?
Answer: Thamel

Question: What neighborhood is also known as Jhamel?
Answer: Jhamsikhel

Question: What is the traditional name for Freak Street?
Answer: Jhochhen Tol

Question: What tourists first brought attention to Jhocchen Tol?
Answer: hippies

Question: How many stars is Kathmandu's Grand Hotel?
Answer: four

Question: What type of hotel is Aloha Inn?
Answer: three-star

Question: De L'Annapurna is an example of what sort of hotel?
Answer: five-star

Question: What attractions are present at Hotel Yak & Yeti and the Hyatt Regency?
Answer: casinos

Question: How many sectors make up the Kathmandu metropolitan area?
Answer: five

Question: What sector of Kathmandu doesn't have the word 'sector' in its name?
Answer: City Core

Question: What is the purpose of Kathmandu being divided into 35 wards?
Answer: civic administration

Question: How many members of the Council received their positions via nomination rather than election?
Answer: 20

Question: How many hectares in size is Kathmandu's ward 26?
Answer: 4

Question: What is Kathmandu's fire department called?
Answer: Barun Yantra Karyalaya

Question: What year saw the founding of Kathmandu's fire department?
Answer: 1937

Question: When did Bhaktapur receive coverage from the fire department?
Answer: 1944

Question: How many fire trucks did West Germany donate to Kathmandu?
Answer: seven

Question: What is the mission of FAN?
Answer: raising public awareness about fire and improving safety

Question: What was the population of Kathmandu in 1991?
Answer: 427,045

Question: About how many people are likely to live in Kathmandu in 2021?
Answer: 1,319,597

Question: How dense was the population of Kathmandu in 1991?
Answer: 85

Question: How many acres of land did the KMC control in 2001?
Answer: 20,300