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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Cities 1: One of, if not the largest cities in Africa, founded under the Fatimid Dynasty	Cairo	100%
People 2: Last pharaoh of Egypt and descendent of Alexander the Great; she's best known for her affairs with Julius Caesar and Marc Antony.	Cleopatra VII	91%
Artificial Landmarks 4: Largest dam on the Nile River; its construction threatened to flood the Temple of Abu Simbel.	Aswan Dam	82%
Cities 3: "The world's greatest open-air museum;" in Greek, it's Thebes, in Ancient Egyptian, it's Waset, and in Coptic, it's Pape.	Luxor	82%
Artificial Landmarks 1: Last of the Ancient Wonders of the World.	Pyramids of Giza	82%
Mythology 1: Jackal-headed god of funerals	Anubis	64%
People 4: Second president of Egypt who nationalized the Suez Canal.	Gamal Abdel Nasser	64%
People 3: Sultan of Egypt and Syria who led Muslim forces in the Second and Third Crusades.	Saladin	64%
Mythology 2: Wife of Osiris and mother of Horus who presided over healing; a major temple to her can be found at Philae.	Isis	55%
History 4: WWII battle that forced the German and Italian armies out of Egypt	Second Battle of El Alamein	55%
Mythology 3: Cat goddess	Bastet	45%
Culture 1: Set of funerary texts meant to guide souls through the afterlife.	Book of the Dead	45%
Cities 2: City established with the construction of the Suez Canal. Its twin city is Port Fuad.	Port Said	45%
History 1: Site of the Arab Spring protests that removed Mubarak	Tahrir Square	45%
People 1: Deified doctor, mathematician, and polymath who shares his name with the antagonist of "The Mummy."	Imhotep	36%
History 3: Kingdom that conquered Egypt in the eighth century BCE	Kush	36%
History 2: Egypt's other Ancient Wonder of the World; its ruins were used to build the Citadel of Qaitbay	Lighthouse of Alexandria	36%
Mythology 4: Serpent who tries to swallow Ra (the sun god) every night; eclipses are blamed on him.	Apep	27%
Paleontology 4: Its name means "king of lizards" because this early whale's discoverers assumed it to be a reptile due to its serpentine shape.	Basilosaurus	27%
Natural Landmarks 3: Mountain named for a Christian saint laid to rest here.	Mount Catherine	27%
Paleontology 2: Relative of the modern-day sawfish that grew to 4.25 meters (13.9 feet) in length and was likely food for the above answer.	Onchopristis	27%
Paleontology 3: Titanosaur that dwelt alongside the above in the Bahariya Formation, discovered in an expedition in 2000	Paralititan	27%
Paleontology 1: This piscivorous theropod is infamous for killing a Tyrannosaurus in Jurassic Park III	Spinosaurus	27%
Artificial Landmarks 3: One of the oldest pyramids, notable for its unsmoothed sides	Step Pyramid of Djoser	27%
Natural Landmarks 2: Site known for fossils of prehistoric whales.	Wadi Al-Hitan	27%
Natural Landmarks 1: As its name would suggest, this site of crystalline formations is an unusual color.	White Desert	27%
Culture 3: This novel by Naguib Mahfouz was only officially released in Egypt in 2006 due to strong opposition from Muslim authorities.	Children of Gebelawi	18%
Artificial Landmarks 2: Temple notable for early medical devices and crocodile mummies found inside.	Kom Ombo Temple	18%
Cities 4: City named after a battle in the Seventh Crusade; in Arabic, its name means "victorious."	Mansoura	18%
Natural Landmarks 4: National park near Sharm El-Sheikh that may have once held a shrine to the Greek god Poseidon.	Ras Muhammad	18%
Culture 2: Considered the "first" Arabic novel, published in 1913 and focusing on romantic and marital affairs in rural Egypt.	Zaynab	18%
Culture 4: Festival marking the beginning of spring that has been celerated in Egypt for thousands of years.	Sham Ennessim	0%

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