Question: During which dynasty was the term Xizang first used?
Answer: Qing

Question: Which Chinese suffix means "area, district, region, ward"?
Answer: qū

Question: What is the best-known medieval Chinese name for Tibet?
Answer: Tubo

Question: When did the name for Tibet, Tubo, first appear in Chinese characters?
Answer: 7th century

Question: Who reconstructed Middle Chinese spoken from the 7th century to the 10th century?
Answer: William H. Baxter

Question: Who is an American Tibetologist?
Answer: Elliot Sperling

Question: What name for Tibet most clearly includes the entire Tibetan plateau?
Answer: Tubote

Question: What is another pre-modern Chinese name for Tibet?
Answer: Wusiguo

Question: How many people across the Tibetan Plateau speak 'greater Tibetan'?
Answer: approximately 6 million

Question: How many people who have fled modern-day Tibet are considered to be exile speakers of Tibetan?
Answer: approximately 150,000

Question: Why are Dzongkha, Sikkimese, Sherpa, and Ladakhi considered to be separate languages?
Answer: political reasons

Question: What is written Tibetan base on?
Answer: Classical Tibetan

Question: What influenced the consistency of the written Tibetan language?
Answer: Tibetan empire

Question: From what was the Tibetan language's script derived?
Answer: ancient Indian Brāhmī script

Question: Where did the Zhang Zhung people migrate from?
Answer: Amdo region

Question: Where did the Zhang Zhung people migrate to?
Answer: western Tibet

Question: What is considered to be the original home of the Bon religion?
Answer: Zhang Zhung

Question: Which Yarlung king attempted to remove the influence of the Zhang Zhung?
Answer: Drigum Tsenpo

Question: Who was the first factual king of Tibet?
Answer: Songtsän Gampo

Question: Who founded the Tibetan Empire?
Answer: Songtsän Gampo

Question: Who did Songtsan Gampo marry in 640?
Answer: Princess Wencheng

Question: Who was Songtsan Gampo's first wife?
Answer: Princess of Nepal, Bhrikuti

Question: What did Songtsan Gampo unite?
Answer: parts of the Yarlung River Valley

Question: When did Tibet and China sign a peace treaty?
Answer: 821/822 CE

Question: Where does a bilingual account of Tibet and China's peace treaty exist?
Answer: Jokhang temple in Lhasa

Question: When did a civil war over succession lead to the collapse of imperial Tibet?
Answer: mid-9th century

Question: What followed the collapse of imperial Tibet?
Answer: Era of Fragmentation

Question: What was divided between warlords and tribes with no dominant centralized authority?
Answer: political control over Tibet

Question: Which dynasty ruled Tibet through a top-level administrative department?
Answer: Mongol Yuan

Question: What was a dpon-chen?
Answer: great administrator

Question: Who confirmed the dpon-chen?
Answer: Mongol emperor

Question: Who was the political authority of the region?
Answer: Sakya lama

Question: Who held administrative and military power?
Answer: dpon-chen

Question: Who managed religious and regional political affairs?
Answer: Tibet

Question: Who managed structural and administrative rule?
Answer: Mongols

Question: Who gained temporal power in Tibet in the 1240s?
Answer: Mongolian prince Khuden

Question: Who founded the Yuan dynasty?
Answer: Imperial Preceptor of Kublai Khan

Question: When was the Phagmodrupa Dynasty founded?
Answer: Between 1346 and 1354

Question: Who founded the Gelug school?
Answer: disciples of Je Tsongkhapa

Question: Who dominated politics after 1435?
Answer: minister family Rinpungpa

Question: What sect did the Tsangpa Dynasty of Shigatse favor?
Answer: Karma Kagyu

Question: Who is known for unifying the Tibetan heartland?
Answer: 5th Dalai Lama

Question: Who helped the 5th Dalai Lama?
Answer: Güshi Khan

Question: What did the 5th Dalai Lama and his intimates establish?
Answer: Lhasa state

Question: What is the Tibetan goverment referred to as?
Answer: Ganden Phodrang

Question: When did the Qing dynasty begin to rule in Tibet?
Answer: 1720

Question: When did Amdo come under Qing control?
Answer: 1724

Question: When was Kham incorporated into neighboring Chinese provinces?
Answer: 1728

Question: Who restored the Dalai Lama as a ruler?
Answer: Qing

Question: What was the governing councel called?
Answer: Kashag

Question: When did the Qing Qianlong Emperor send a large Chinese army into Tibet?
Answer: 1792

Question: Why did the Qing Qianlong Emperor send a large Chinese army into Tibet?
Answer: push the invading Nepalese out

Question: What was the Qing reorganization of the Tibetan called?
Answer: Twenty-Nine Regulations for Better Government in Tibet

Question: When was Tibet dominated by the Manchus?
Answer: 18th century

Question: When did George Bogle come to Shigatse to investigate prospects of trade.
Answer: 1774

Question: Who came to Tibet from Europe?
Answer: Jesuits and Capuchins

Question: When did the British and Russian empires begin encroaching on Tibet?
Answer: 19th century

Question: When did a British expedition to Tibet invade the country?
Answer: 1904

Question: With whom were the British hopeing to negotiate?
Answer: 13th Dalai Lama

Question: How many Tibetan troops died at the Massacre of Chumik Shenko?
Answer: 600

Question: How many British troops died at the Massacre of Chumik Shenko?
Answer: 12

Question: Who imposed the Treaty of Lhasa?
Answer: Francis Younghusband

Question: When did the Xinhai Revolution topple the Qing dynasty?
Answer: 1911–12

Question: Who declared himself ruler of an independent Tibet?
Answer: Dalai Lama

Question: When did Tibet and Mongolia conclude a treaty of mutual recognition?
Answer: 1913

Question: When did the Tibetan government sign the Simla Accord with Britain?
Answer: 1914

Question: Why did the Chinese goverment denounce the accord?
Answer: illegal

Question: Where did the Dalai Lama's government flee to during the 1959 Tibetan Rebellion?
Answer: Dharamsala

Question: How many Tibetans died during the Great Leap Forward?
Answer: between 200,000 and 1,000,000

Question: How many monasteries were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution?
Answer: 6,000

Question: When did China and India fight a war over South Tibet and Aksai Chin?
Answer: 1962

Question: To where did Chinese troops withdraw?
Answer: north of the McMahon Line

Question: When did Hu Yaobang visit Tibet?
Answer: 1980

Question: When did monks in the Drepung and Sera monasteries start protesting for independence?
Answer: 1989

Question: What did the government do when it halted reforms?
Answer: started an anti-separatist campaign

Question: When was the most recent Tibetan unrest?
Answer: 2008

Question: For what have the Beijing and Lhasa goverments been criticized?
Answer: human rights

Question: On which border of Tibet is Mount Everest located?
Answer: Nepal

Question: How tall, in feet, is Mount Everest?
Answer: 29,029

Question: Where is the source of the Yangtze river?
Answer: Tibetan Plateau

Question: Which mountain is a holy pilgrimage for both Hindus and Tibetans?
Answer: Mount Kailash

Question: Who do Hindus believe lives in Mount Kailash?
Answer: Lord Shiva

Question: What is the Tibetan name for Mount Kailash?
Answer: Khang Rinpoche

Question: Which lake is the largest in China?
Answer: Qinghai Lake

Question: What is the average annual snowfall in Tibet?
Answer: 18 inches

Question: What weather pattern exerts some influence on eastern TIbet?
Answer: Indian monsoon

Question: What are winters like in Tibet?
Answer: intense cold

Question: Where is Tibet ranked among China's 31 provinces on the UN's Human Development Index?
Answer: lowest

Question: What has increased tourism to Tibet in recent years?
Answer: increased interest in Tibetan Buddhism

Question: What is Tibet exempt from?
Answer: all taxation

Question: From which area does tourism bring the most income?
Answer: sale of handicrafts

Question: In what year was a national conference on Tibet held in China?
Answer: 2010