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Egypt Country Quiz

Can you answer these questions about ancient and modern Egypt?
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Last updated: December 16, 2019
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First submittedFebruary 17, 2014
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On what river do the vast majority of Egyptians live?
The Nile
What major dam on that river was completed in 1970?
Aswan High Dam
What is the name of the canal connecting the Mediterranean and Red seas?
Suez
What is the capital of Egypt?
Cairo
What is Egypt's second largest city?
Alexandria
In what city can the Great Pyramid be found?
Giza
What is the name of Egypt's Christian ethnic group?
Copts
What ancient Egyptian capital is the namesake of a major city in Tennessee?
Memphis
What city is the namesake of a popular Las Vegas casino?
Luxor
What famous landmark has a lion's body and a human head?
The Great Sphinx
What is the official language of Egypt?
Arabic
What Egyptian peninsula was captured by Israel in 1967, and returned in 1982?
Sinai Peninsula
What was the site of the largest Arab Spring protests in 2011?
Tahrir Square
What long-time President was overthrown as a result of those protests?
Hosni Mubarak
What peacemaking President was assassinated in 1981?
Anwar Sadat
What symbol-based system of writing was used in ancient Egypt?
Hieroglyphics
What stone, discovered in 1799, provided the key to deciphering those symbols?
Rosetta Stone
Who was the ancient Egyptian sun god?
Ra
What ancient goddess was seen as the ideal mother?
Isis
What was the title of the rulers of ancient Egypt?
Pharaoh
What female leader was the lover of both Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony?
Cleopatra
What paper-like material was invented by the ancient Egyptians?
Papyrus
What teenage ruler's tomb was discovered in 1922?
Tutankhamun
What ancient Egyptian has been called history's first architect and doctor?
Imhotep
What "great" leader led Egypt for 66 years beginning in 1279 B.C.?
Ramesses II
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Level 82
Apr 29, 2014
Found this to be much easier than most of these country quizzes- got 100%.
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Level 82
Aug 29, 2016
Ditto, pretty straightforward.
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Level 25
May 2, 2023
As an egyptian I got two wrong 🙃🙃
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Level 24
Apr 29, 2014
Wouldn't have got many if my roommate didn't live in Egypt for a while!
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Level 86
Apr 29, 2014
Rather easy indeed. I thought Giza was a district of Cairo.
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Level 82
May 12, 2014
If you've been there, it seems like a suburb.
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Level 69
Dec 25, 2016
Also if you haven't been there, it seems like a suburb.
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Level 82
Nov 5, 2017
It wouldn't really seem like anything to you if you hadn't been there... not having been there.
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Level 88
Aug 3, 2019
By God, it IS a suburb!
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Level 82
Mar 4, 2020
which probably contributes to the feeling
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Level 45
Jul 23, 2022
It is a suburb, just was there and you wouldn't see Cairo end and Gizeh (yes, this spelling should be accepted) begin.
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Level 51
May 2, 2014
Sphynx is spelt with a y.
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Level 49
Feb 9, 2016
Sphynx is a cat whilst sphinx refers to Egyptian mythology.
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Level 79
Mar 4, 2020
This is correct. The hairless cat is spelt with a y and the ancient monument is spelt with an i.
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Level 68
Jul 23, 2022
Oh wow, I have learned something new today. Thanks.
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Level 88
Aug 3, 2019
Links to prove it?
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Level 70
Jul 16, 2020
No, LYNX to prove it
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Level 38
Apr 26, 2022
🤦🏻‍♂️ lol
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Level 44
Nov 20, 2016
Imhotep is definitely not history's first doctor- there's not even evidence that he was a physician in the first place...
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Level 88
Aug 3, 2019
Obviously not. Nor was he the first human to plan a building ahead of time. He is the earliest known to be credited as such.
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Level ∞
May 13, 2020
I didn't say he was the first doctor. I said he "has been called" the first doctor.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=imhotep+first+doctor

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Level 65
Dec 21, 2016
ozymandias should be accepted for ramesses II
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Level ∞
Dec 4, 2019
That will work now.
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Level 76
Jun 28, 2021
ozymandias doesn't seem to work - did this get removed as a valid type-in?
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Level 72
Jul 15, 2020
Yes, and the Sphinx should be replaced with a giant squid.
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Level 33
Jun 29, 2021
I disagree. Ozymandias is not common in English to refer to Ramses at all. The only notable use of the term that I can think of is the famous poem by Shelley.
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Level 76
Dec 21, 2016
Could you accept Tahir? I had no idea how to spell the place.
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Level ∞
Dec 4, 2019
Yes, that will work now.
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Level 60
Jul 15, 2020
It shouldn't. Tahrir and Tahir have two very different meanings. It's kind of hypocritical that in other quizzes, obvious type-ins are not accepted, whereas in this quiz, Tahir is accepted for Tahrir, which is totally different.
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Level 57
Nov 27, 2020
Hypocritical is a strong word.
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Level 65
Dec 21, 2016
Might want to change that Isis question.
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Level 62
May 27, 2018
No need to change it. It's not her fault that a group of barbaric fundamentalists use her name as one of its acronyms in the English language.
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Level 66
Sep 18, 2019
Ow is that what he meant? Really?
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Level 78
Mar 4, 2020
I like that fact that Isis is defended by her husband here.
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Level 76
Jun 28, 2021
husband/brother
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Level 61
Dec 21, 2016
I forgot Cleopatra.... I don't know how that's possible....
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Level 62
May 27, 2018
Your screen name seems to shed some light on the topic.
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Level 60
Oct 16, 2018
Forgot Seuz......(faceplam)
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Level 66
Sep 18, 2019
Or misspelled it.
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Level 21
Feb 3, 2019
hmmmmmmm..... Giza looks like a suburb of Cairo.
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Level 83
Mar 4, 2020
Doesn't mean it's not a city.
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Level 63
Jan 26, 2020
You spelled Rameses wrong
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Level ∞
May 13, 2020
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesses_II
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Level 56
Jul 23, 2022
Ramsis is spelled many different ways
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Level 68
Mar 4, 2020
Tutankhamun wasn't 10 years old when he died, he reigned for 10 years...
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Level ∞
May 13, 2020
Fixed, thanks!
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Level 84
Mar 4, 2020
I knew Imhotep because of the board game. If you've never played it, look it up. It's a lot of fun.
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Level 89
Jul 15, 2020
Better than knowing Imhotep from The Mummy movies.
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Level 66
Oct 13, 2022
Hey, that's ofensive... XD
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Level 75
Jul 17, 2020
I knew him because we learned about him in my history class - didn't help me from forgetting his name though
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Level 54
May 9, 2020
I've never heard of Imhotep being credited as the "first doctor". Wikipedia only has a single sentence on the topic, and half of it is "there is no evidence that Imhotep himself was a physician".
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Level ∞
May 13, 2020
I didn't say he was the first doctor. I said he "has been called" the first doctor.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=imhotep+first+doctor

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Level 71
Jul 15, 2020
I kept on thinking it was the Aswen Dam :P
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Level 60
Jul 16, 2020
While Ra being the most well known, the sun god was called many different names througout Egypt history. You might consider other names/type-ins to be accepted, such as Re, Amon, Amun or Atum.
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Level 62
Jul 19, 2020
its Mark Antony, not Anthony, innit?
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Level 78
Jul 21, 2020
It is if you ask Shakespeare, although his spelling was somewhat erratic.
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Level 33
Jun 29, 2021
Egypt has so much history that is known to pop culture, that even a very long quiz still misses so much! (I don't mean that in a bad way):

-Ptolemaic dynasty, especially the institute at the library of Alexandria, and the scientists, astronomers, and mathematicians who worked there (I know Cleopatra was the last of this dynasty but she was also far less consequential than the first three Ptolemies)

-location of key ancient Greek manuscripts for the New Testament that were preserved for many hundreds of years thanks to the arid climate

-use as breadbasket of ancient Rome

-in medieval times, the Mamluks

-historic leadership within the Islamic world of the Cairo theologians

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Level 83
Jul 13, 2021
You mean Imhotep in the Mummy movies wasn't historically accurate??
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Level 56
May 22, 2022
Honestly, some of these hints are rubbish. Like

"What ancient Egyptian capital is the namesake of a major city in Tennessee?"

"What city is the namesake of a popular Las Vegas casino?"

How would I know these as an Egyptian?

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Level 86
Jul 23, 2022
There aren't too many ancient Egyptian capitals, and Memphis is not a totally unknown American city either.

As for the Luxor casino, it is quite famous for its pyramid and the extremely powerful light at its top. But I rather agree that a hint about the ancient temple of Thebes would be better.

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Level 56
Aug 11, 2022
I don't usually complain about "American centrism" on this website but... seriously?
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Level 68
Jun 24, 2022
I wonder why these are phrased as questions when the questions in a lot of the other country quizzes (and other quizzes in general) aren't.
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Level 60
Feb 10, 2023
24/25, i could not, no matter how hard i tried, think of Mubarak.
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Level 67
Mar 7, 2023
Could you accept Re for Ra?
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Level 22
Apr 15, 2023
No! I couldn’t remember the name Anwar Sadat.
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Level 65
Aug 23, 2023
Why are two questions in the Egypt quiz about the United States? Sure you can think of some better ones...
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Level 66
Jan 29, 2024
Cool quiz. Surprised there wasn't a question on Nasser.