Stats: History of Egypt 🇪🇬

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Early Egyptian civilizations relied on the annual flood of this river	Nile River	97%
The above period also gave birth to these giant monuments serving as kings' tombs	Pyramids	80%
One of the oldest writing systems in the world, invented by ancient Egyptians	Hieroglyphics	70%
Title for the monarchs of the above historical period	Pharaoh	70%
This city on the coast with a great library became scholarly capital of the world	Alexandria	67%
1956 crisis that occurred after the above president nationalized a canal	Suez Crisis	67%
Greek rule ended when this ruler killed herself by poison in 30 BC, starting Roman rule	Cleopatra VII	63%
Famous structure in the above city that guides ships to harbor at night	Pharos	63%
The bodies of kings were preserved in the above monuments using this technique	Mummification	60%
Mathematician known as Father of Geometry who wrote Elements	Euclid	57%
Second president, in office 1954-1970, who spread his ideals on Arab unity by radio	Gamal Abdel Nasser	57%
Fourth president, in office 1981-2011, ousted during the Arab Spring	Hosni Mubarak	57%
Egypt launched assault on Israel during this 1973 war but was again defeated	Yom Kippur War	57%
Third president, in office 1970-1981, assassinated for making peace with Israel	Anwar Sadat	53%
The largest of the above was built for this king, criticized as an oppressor by Herodotus	Khufu	53%
Muslim hero and sultan of Egypt who captured Jerusalem in 1187	Saladin	53%
Egypt was defeated in this 1967 war against Israel, losing the Sinai Peninsula	Six-Day War	53%
Ferdinand de Lesseps led the construction of this project, which opened in 1869	Suez Canal	53%
Two 1942 battles, part of WWII North African campaigns, fought on Egyptian territory	Battles of El Alamein	50%
St. Mark spread Christianity to Egypt, establishing this church	Coptic Church	50%
Prime minister, architect and physician of the above period serving under Djoser	Imhotep	50%
After conquest by Alexander in 332 BC, Egypt was controlled by this Greek general	Ptolemy I	50%
Son of the above, returned to religious normalcy and died in his nineteenth year	Tutankhamen	50%
Structure completed in 1970 using tolls collected from the above canal	Aswan High Dam	43%
Empire that followed the Romans, its defeat led to Egypt's conversion to Islam	Byzantine Empire	43%
City square in Cairo where protests during the Arab Spring took place	Tahrir Square	43%
King who worshipped only one god, the sun deity Aten	Akhenaten	37%
1978 accords establishing peace and allowing for the return of the Sinai Peninsula	Camp David Accords	37%
Mentuhotep II reunited Egypt, starting this 2055-1650 BC period of Egyptian history	Middle Kingdom	37%
Current (sixth) president who removed Mohamed Morsi from power in 2013	Abdel Fattah el-Sisi	33%
Aswan site built by Ramesses II, with four statues of himself in front of the main temple	Abu Simbel	33%
King accredited with unifying Upper and Lower Egypt in the 32nd century BC	Narmer	33%
Ahmose I established this 1550-1069 BC period of Egyptian history	New Kingdom	33%
2686-2181 BC period of Egyptian history, consolidating absolute power of monarch	Old Kingdom	33%
Group of people who seized Egypt in 1250, driving away the invading Mongols	Mamluks	30%
Egypt was invaded by this group in the End of Bronze Age Collapse	Sea Peoples	30%
Albanian who gained power as Ottoman viceroy of Egypt in 1805	Muhammad Ali Pasha	27%
Religious organization that the above president ordered a crackdown on	Muslim Brotherhood	27%
Islamic caliphate following the Abassid that founded Cairo in 969	Fatimid Caliphate	23%
King of this period who built temples and attained unprecedented power for a woman	Hatshepsut	23%
August 1789 battle in which the British under Nelson defeated Napoleon	Battle of the Nile	20%
Ottoman Turks under this sultan conquered Egypt in 1517	Selim I	20%
Prestigious university in Cairo established during this period	Al-Azhar University	17%
Dynasty encompassing Egypt, Syria, Yemen and Palestine established by the above	Ayubbid Dynasty	17%
War which Egypt lost in 1948, leading the the founding of Israel	First Arab-Israeli War	17%
First king of Egypt after Egyptian independence in 1922	Fuad I	17%
July 1798 battle in which Napoleon defeated the Turks	Battle of the Pyramids	13%
Librarian and polymath who calculated the circumference of the Earth	Eratosthenes	13%
Second king of Egypt, ruling from 1936 to 1952	Farouk I	13%
1650 BC invasion that ended the above historical period	Hyksos Invasion	13%
Ruler of the above who won the 1260 Battle of Ain Jalut and the Seventh Crusade	Baybars	10%
Military leader who became first president but was forced to resign in 1954	Mohamed Naguib	10%
Son of the above, king who expanded Egypt by conquering Syria and Nubia	Thutmose III	10%
Librarian and poet who wrote the Aetia	Callimachus	7%
Group whose 1952 movement toppled the monarchy	Free Officers	7%
First prime minister whose Wafd party campaigned for Egyptian independence	Saad Zaghloul	7%
1879-1882 nationalist uprising that led to full British occupation	‘Urabi Revolt	7%
Well-known mosque in Cairo established during this period	Al-Hakim Mosque	3%
Christian theologian and ascetic who authored On the First Principles	Origen	3%
Radio station through which the above president spread his ideals	Voice of the Arabs	3%

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