| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| On what river is Cairo situated? | Nile | 99%
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| What Cairo suburb is home to the "Great Pyramid"? | Giza | 96%
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| What Tennessean city shares its name with an ancient Egyptian capital in Metro Cairo? | Memphis | 88%
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| Either Cairo or what city is Africa's biggest city, depending on how you measure? | Lagos | 78%
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| What is the closest world capital to Cairo? | Jerusalem | 75%
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| What international body is headquartered in Cairo? | Arab {League} | 62%
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| Put on your thinking cap ... What is the tallest structure in Cairo and Egypt? | {Cairo} Tower | 60%
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| What city square was the site of massive protests during the Arab Spring? | Tahrir Square | 58%
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| What Egyptian President was assassinated in 1981 in Cairo? | Anwar Sadat | 55%
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| Cairo's Al-Azhar University is world's second-oldest institution of higher learning. In what North African city is world's oldest located? | Fez | 35%
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| What chivalrous nemesis of the Crusaders built the Cairo Citadel? | Saladin | 35%
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| What is the nickname of Cairo? | The City of a Thousand {Minarets} | 30%
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| What is the Arabic pronunciation of the city? | al-{Qāhirah} | 26%
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| What famous bazaar is one of Cairo's main tourist attractions? | Khan el-{Khalili} | 22%
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| Cairo's name in Arabic means "the Conqueror", which is supposedly named after what object in our solar system - known as "the Conquering Star" in Arabic? | Mars | 22%
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| The opening and closing scenes of what 2016 X-Men movie took place in Cairo? | X-Men: {Apocalypse} | 21%
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| What historic caliphate established Cairo in 969? | Fatimid Caliphate | 18%
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| What island in that river is the above located, and is Cairo's most populous one? | Gezira Island | 10%
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| What will the new Egyptian capital replacing Cairo reportedly be named? | Wedian | 4%
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| What U.S. state capital became Egypt's first sister city in 1951? | Baton Rouge | 3%
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