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Question	Answer	% Correct
On what river do the vast majority of Egyptians live?	The Nile	99%
What is the capital of Egypt?	Cairo	98%
What is the official language of Egypt?	Arabic	91%
What female leader was the lover of both Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony?	Cleopatra	88%
What is the name of the canal connecting the Mediterranean and Red seas?	Suez	86%
In what city can the Great Pyramid be found?	Giza	84%
What teenage ruler's tomb was discovered in 1922?	Tutankhamun	84%
What is Egypt's second largest city?	Alexandria	81%
What famous landmark has a lion's body and a human head?	The Great Sphinx	80%
What paper-like material was invented by the ancient Egyptians?	Papyrus	79%
What was the title of the rulers of ancient Egypt?	Pharaoh	79%
What symbol-based system of writing was used in ancient Egypt?	Hieroglyphics	78%
Who was the ancient Egyptian sun god?	Ra	78%
What stone, discovered in 1799, provided the key to deciphering those symbols?	{Rosetta} Stone	70%
What ancient Egyptian capital is the namesake of a major city in Tennessee?	Memphis	67%
What Egyptian peninsula was captured by Israel in 1967, and returned in 1982?	Sinai Peninsula	66%
What city is the namesake of a popular Las Vegas casino?	Luxor	60%
What is the name of Egypt's Christian ethnic group?	Copts	57%
What major dam on that river was completed in 1970?	Aswan High Dam	48%
What ancient goddess was seen as the ideal mother?	Isis	46%
What "great" leader led Egypt for 66 years beginning in 1279 B.C.?	Ramesses II	44%
What long-time President was overthrown as a result of those protests?	Hosni Mubarak	42%
What peacemaking President was assassinated in 1981?	Anwar Sadat	34%
What was the site of the largest Arab Spring protests in 2011?	{Tahrir} Square	27%
What ancient Egyptian has been called history's first architect and doctor?	Imhotep	18%