Trivia Quiz on Ancient Egypt

1. What was extracted through the nasal passages of dead pharaohs

A) Heart

B) Lungs

C) Brain

D) Stomach

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2. What was the pharon

A) A type of ancient Egyptian god

B) The ceremonial title of a pharaoh's heir

C) Lighthouse

D) A famous ancient Egyptian battle site

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3. Whose tomb was discovered by Howard Carter in 1922

A) Ramses II

B) Cleopatra VII

C) Tutankhamen

D) Nefertiti

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4. The Egyptian hieroglyph for 100,000 is what

A) Coiled rope

B) Lotus flower

C) Pointing finger

D) Tadpole

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5. The letter B comes from Egyptian hieroglyphics meaning what

A) Bread

B) Water

C) House

D) Basket

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6. Ancient Egyptians shaved their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of what

A) Their dogs

B) Their cats

C) Their cattle

D) Their pharaohs

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7. Of what were ancient egyptian pillows made

A) Wood

B) Clay

C) Leather

D) Stone

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8. Where is the modern site of the biblical land of Goshen

A) Sinai Peninsula

B) Canaan

C) Mesopotamia

D) Egypt the nile delta

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9. License plates: what's cheops's profession

A) Pharaoh

B) Architect

C) Historian

D) Egyptologist

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10. In egyptian mythology, who was horus' mother

A) Nephthys

B) Hathor

C) Bastet

D) Isis

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11. In egyptian mythology, what is the life force called

A) Ba

B) Akh

C) Ka

D) Ren

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12. What is a king of egypt

A) Vizier

B) Sultan

C) Pharaoh

D) Khedive

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13. Celibate Egyptian priests were forbidden to eat what aphrodisiac

A) Garlic

B) Figs

C) Onions

D) Honey

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14. Hathor was the Egyptian goddess of what

A) The Sky

B) The Moon

C) The Underworld

D) The Sun

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15. What egyptian object is also known as 'the key to the nile'

A) Ankh

B) Was-scepter

C) Djed pillar

D) Udjat eye

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16. What is a pharaoh

A) A god worshipped in ancient Greece

B) A type of ancient Egyptian jewelry

C) Queen of egypt

D) King of egypt

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17. In egyptian mythology, who was isis the wife of

A) Osiris

B) Horus

C) Anubis

D) Set

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18. Who was king of Egypt from 1375 to 1358 b.c

A) Amenhotep III

B) Thutmose IV

C) Ramses II

D) Amenhotep iv

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19. Cleopatra sometimes wore a fake what

A) Crown

B) Beard – for Official Duties

C) Fake mustache

D) Mask

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20. Sakhmet was the egyptian god of ______

A) War and divine vengeance

B) Love and beauty

C) Wealth and fertility

D) Chaos and storms

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21. Where were the first gambling casinos

A) Egypt

B) Venice, Italy

C) France

D) China

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22. Who was the egyptian god of the underworld and vegetation

A) Anubis

B) Osiris

C) Ra

D) Isis

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23. Shu was an Egyptian God of what

A) The Sea

B) The Sky

C) The Air

D) The Earth

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24. In 1500 BC Egyptian women had to be what to be beautiful

A) Bald

B) Wearing a wig

C) Bearded

D) Dyeing hair blue

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25. A nilometer measures the rise and fall of what

A) Rivers (originally Nile)

B) The sea level

C) The flow rate of rivers

D) The depth of wells

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26. What kind of a head does a Criosphinx possess

A) Bull

B) Ram

C) Lion

D) Hawk

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27. What gem was Cleopatra's signet

A) The Emerald

B) The Ruby

C) The Amethyst

D) The Sapphire

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28. The ancient Egyptians worshiped a sky Goddess name her

A) Nut

B) Isis

C) Hathor

D) Sekhmet

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29. Egyptian embalmers replaced the bodies eyes with what

A) Glass beads

B) Onions

C) Copper prosthetic eyes

D) Lapis lazuli eyes

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30. Moses 10 plagues on Egypt - what was the fourth

A) Water to blood

B) Frogs

C) Flies

D) Pestilence on livestock

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31. In 1361 bc, who became the king of egypt at the age of nine

A) Akhenaten

B) Ay

C) Tutankhamen

D) Ramesses II

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32. Where could you see a likeness of Pharaoh Khafres head

A) On the Sphinx

B) In the British Museum

C) On the Rosetta Stone

D) In the Louvre

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33. Mentu Egyptian Tyr Norse Gods of what

A) War

B) Love

C) Death

D) Harvest

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34. With which creature was the Egyptian God Horus identified

A) Cat

B) Crocodile

C) Falcon

D) Snake

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35. What is the Greek word for Egyptian

A) Coptic

B) Nubian

C) Pharaonic

D) Demotic

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36. Picture representing word or syllable

A) Pictogram

B) Ideogram

C) Heiroglyph

D) Glyph

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37. After who is the 'Ramses' brand condom named?

A) Pharaoh Ramses III

B) Pharaoh Tutankhamun

C) Pharaoh Ramses II

D) Pharaoh Akhenaten

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38. What was an Egyptian king called

A) Khedive

B) Sultan

C) Emperor

D) Pharaoh

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39. Who was the egyptian god of war and divine vengeance

A) Sakhmet

B) Anhur

C) Hathor

D) Sobek

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40. Seen on Egyptian rivers what is a Shadoof used for

A) Measuring the Nile's flood levels

B) Water bucket on pole

C) Grinding grain at the mill

D) Hanging laundry to dry on a line

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41. Who is the egyptian goddess of love

A) Hathor

B) Isis

C) Bastet

D) Sekhmet

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42. Who was the Egyptian god of the Nile, depicted in human form with a beard, large belly, & a crown of aquatic

A) Sobek

B) Osiris

C) Khnum

D) Hapi

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43. A golden _____ removed from King Tut's tomb was still sharp enough to be used

A) dagger

B) knife

C) sickle

D) Razor

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44. Who was Cleopatra's first husband

A) Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator

B) Mark Antony

C) Ptolemy Dionysus – her brother

D) Ptolemy XIV Philopator

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45. What queen married 2 of her brothers

A) Elizabeth I

B) Isabella I of Castile

C) Cleopatra

D) Catherine the Great

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46. What vegetable was considered a cure for sex problems in old Egypt

A) Garlic

B) Radish

C) Onion

D) Turnip

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47. Khons was the Egyptian god of what

A) Sun

B) War

C) The Nile

D) Moon

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48. In which country did the study of geometry originate

A) Greece

B) Babylon

C) Egypt

D) India

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49. Whose attendance compulsory at priests banquets in Egypt

A) Pharaohs

B) Nobles

C) Scribes

D) Mummies – dead reminded short life

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50. The pyramids are built of which rock

A) Granite

B) Limestone

C) Sandstone

D) Basalt

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