Multiple Choice City Quiz – Cairo

Can you answer these multiple choice questions about the city of Cairo?

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1. On what river is Cairo located?

Congo

Niger

Nile

Zambezi

2. Which of these cities is located just across the river from Cairo?

Alexandria

Giza

Luxor

Port Said

3. What square was the site of major protests during the "Arab Spring" in 2011?

King Farouk Square

Nasser Square

Prince Edward Square

Tahrir Square

4. What is Cairo's nickname?

The City of a Thousand Minarets

The City of Martyrs

The Desert Rose

The Oasis

5. Starting in Cairo, and flying due north, what is the first foreign country you would reach?

Italy

Russia

Syria

Turkey

6. What Christian order has its headquarters in Cairo?

Coptic Orthodox Church

Maronite Church

Southern Baptist Convention

Syriac Orthodox Church

7. What former UN Secretary General was born and died in Cairo?

Kofi Annan

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Gamal Abdel Nasser

U Thant

8. When was Cairo founded?

about 3000 BC

331 BC

969 AD

1792 AD

9. Which Islamic caliphate was based in Cairo?

Abbasid

Fatimid

Rashidun

Umayyad

10. Which of these people NEVER visited Cairo?

Napoleon Bonaparte

Winston Churchill

Marco Polo

Saladin

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14 Comments

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Mar 13, 2025

Credit @baptistegorce for question #10.

Level 72

Mar 13, 2025

nother Featured MCCQ :D

Level 63

Mar 13, 2025

a remade one alas

Level 83

Mar 13, 2025

While I could be wrong, all I see is that Alexandria is where the Coptic orthodox church is located, not Cairo

Level ∞

Mar 13, 2025

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_Orthodox_Church

Headquarters: Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, Cairo, Egypt

Level 83

Mar 13, 2025

Oh weird, it's confusing cause it's literally called the patriarchate of Alexandria

But it seems you are correct

Level 83

Mar 13, 2025

I'm really bad at these, ha ha. I'm regularly in the bottom 30th percentile.

Level 88

Mar 14, 2025

I can't remember the last time I saw a question have a wrong answer guessed more often than the correct one, let alone three times.

Level 64

Mar 14, 2025

Loving these 10 beautiful little quest on city specific quiz theme ❤️❤️❤️.

Level 73

Jun 13, 2025

The more usual nickname for Cairo is Umm al-Dunya, 'mother of the world'.

Level 17

Aug 17, 2025

Egypt as a whole is nicknamed 'Umm al dunya', not Cairo itself.

Level 42

Jun 26, 2025

turns out CAIRO and MEMPHIS isnt the same city

Level 74

Jul 1, 2025

I left one question empty (because I couldn't even narrow it down) and answered one wrong and still better than 93,7% of test takers. Seems like the questions were pretty hard.

Level 79

Sep 15, 2025

Yeah few people get the question for when it was founded because it's natural to assume it's associated with ancient Egypt like Luxor and Memphis, or even with Greek conquests like Alexandria, though it wasn't a thing until the Fatimids founded it.