Egypt Country Quiz

Can you guess these facts about ancient and modern Egypt?

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Last updated: December 16, 2019

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First submitted	February 17, 2014
Times taken	76,259
Average score	68.0%
Rating	4.82

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Hint	Answer
River near which the vast majority of Egyptians live	The Nile
Major dam on that river completed in 1970	Aswan High Dam
Canal which connects the Mediterranean to the Red Sea	Suez
Capital of Egypt	Cairo
Suburb of the above where the Great Pyramid can be found	Giza
Egypt's second largest city	Alexandria
Christian ethnic group accounting for about 10% of Egypt's population	Copts
Ancient Egyptian capital which is the namesake of a major city in Tennessee	Memphis
City which is the namesake of a popular Las Vegas casino	Luxor
Famous landmark with a lion's body and a human head	The Great Sphinx
Official language of Egypt	Arabic
Egyptian peninsula captured by Israel in 1967 and returned in 1982	Sinai Peninsula
Site of the largest Arab Spring protests in 2011	Tahrir Square
Ruler overthrown as a result of those protests	Hosni Mubarak
Peacemaking President who was assassinated in 1981	Anwar Sadat
Symbol-based system of writing was used in ancient Egypt	Hieroglyphics
Stone, discovered in 1799, that provided the key to deciphering those symbols	Rosetta Stone
The ancient Egyptian sun god	Ra
Ancient goddess seen as the ideal mother	Isis
Title of the rulers of ancient Egypt?	Pharaoh
Female leader who was the lover of both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony	Cleopatra
Paper-like material was invented by the ancient Egyptians	Papyrus
Teenage ruler's tomb that was discovered in 1922	Tutankhamun
Egyptian who has been called history's first architect and doctor	Imhotep
"Great" leader who ruled Egypt for 66 years beginning in 1279 BC?	Ramesses II

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65 Comments

Level 79

Apr 29, 2014

Found this to be much easier than most of these country quizzes- got 100%.

Level 80

Aug 29, 2016

Ditto, pretty straightforward.

Level 37

May 2, 2023

As an egyptian I got two wrong 🙃🙃

Level 24

Apr 29, 2014

Wouldn't have got many if my roommate didn't live in Egypt for a while!

Level 89

Apr 29, 2014

Rather easy indeed. I thought Giza was a district of Cairo.

+11

Level 79

May 12, 2014

If you've been there, it seems like a suburb.

+27

Level 68

Dec 25, 2016

Also if you haven't been there, it seems like a suburb.

+10

Level 79

Nov 5, 2017

It wouldn't really seem like anything to you if you hadn't been there... not having been there.

Level 92

Aug 3, 2019

By God, it IS a suburb!

Level 79

Mar 4, 2020

which probably contributes to the feeling

Level 49

Jul 23, 2022

It is a suburb, just was there and you wouldn't see Cairo end and Gizeh (yes, this spelling should be accepted) begin.

Level 50

May 2, 2014

Sphynx is spelt with a y.

+17

Level 48

Feb 9, 2016

Sphynx is a cat whilst sphinx refers to Egyptian mythology.

Level 81

Mar 4, 2020

This is correct. The hairless cat is spelt with a y and the ancient monument is spelt with an i.

Level 68

Jul 23, 2022

Oh wow, I have learned something new today. Thanks.

Level 92

Aug 3, 2019

Links to prove it?

+36

Level 75

Jul 16, 2020

No, LYNX to prove it

Level 37

Apr 26, 2022

🤦🏻‍♂️ lol

Level 49

Nov 20, 2016

Imhotep is definitely not history's first doctor- there's not even evidence that he was a physician in the first place...

Level 92

Aug 3, 2019

Obviously not. Nor was he the first human to plan a building ahead of time. He is the earliest known to be credited as such.

+10

Level ∞

May 13, 2020

I didn't say he was the first doctor. I said he "has been called" the first doctor.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=imhotep+first+doctor

Level 65

Dec 21, 2016

ozymandias should be accepted for ramesses II

Level ∞

Dec 4, 2019

That will work now.

Level 70

Jul 15, 2020

Yes, and the Sphinx should be replaced with a giant squid.

Level 33

Jun 29, 2021

I disagree. Ozymandias is not common in English to refer to Ramses at all. The only notable use of the term that I can think of is the famous poem by Shelley.

Level 79

Dec 21, 2016

Could you accept Tahir? I had no idea how to spell the place.

Level ∞

Dec 4, 2019

Yes, that will work now.

Level 63

Jul 15, 2020

It shouldn't. Tahrir and Tahir have two very different meanings. It's kind of hypocritical that in other quizzes, obvious type-ins are not accepted, whereas in this quiz, Tahir is accepted for Tahrir, which is totally different.

Level 56

Nov 27, 2020

Hypocritical is a strong word.

Level 65

Dec 21, 2016

Might want to change that Isis question.

+41

Level 68

May 27, 2018

No need to change it. It's not her fault that a group of barbaric fundamentalists use her name as one of its acronyms in the English language.

+38

Level 80

Mar 4, 2020

I like that fact that Isis is defended by her husband here.

Level 79

Jun 28, 2021

husband/brother

Level 61

Dec 21, 2016

I forgot Cleopatra.... I don't know how that's possible....

+37

Level 68

May 27, 2018

Your screen name seems to shed some light on the topic.

Level 59

Oct 16, 2018

Forgot Seuz......(faceplam)

+20

Level 76

Sep 18, 2019

Or misspelled it.

Level 21

Feb 3, 2019

hmmmmmmm..... Giza looks like a suburb of Cairo.

Level 88

Mar 4, 2020

Doesn't mean it's not a city.

Level 68

Jan 26, 2020

You spelled Rameses wrong

Level ∞

May 13, 2020

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

Level 56

Jul 23, 2022

Ramsis is spelled many different ways

Level 88

Mar 4, 2020

I knew Imhotep because of the board game. If you've never played it, look it up. It's a lot of fun.

Level 93

Jul 15, 2020

Better than knowing Imhotep from The Mummy movies.

Level 68

Oct 13, 2022

Hey, that's ofensive... XD

Level 76

Jul 17, 2020

I knew him because we learned about him in my history class - didn't help me from forgetting his name though

Level 55

May 9, 2020

I've never heard of Imhotep being credited as the "first doctor". Wikipedia only has a single sentence on the topic, and half of it is "there is no evidence that Imhotep himself was a physician".

Level ∞

May 13, 2020

I didn't say he was the first doctor. I said he "has been called" the first doctor.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=imhotep+first+doctor

Level 71

Jul 15, 2020

I kept on thinking it was the Aswen Dam :P

Level 59

Jul 16, 2020

While Ra being the most well known, the sun god was called many different names througout Egypt history. You might consider other names/type-ins to be accepted, such as Re, Amon, Amun or Atum.

Level 33

Jun 29, 2021

Egypt has so much history that is known to pop culture, that even a very long quiz still misses so much! (I don't mean that in a bad way):

-Ptolemaic dynasty, especially the institute at the library of Alexandria, and the scientists, astronomers, and mathematicians who worked there (I know Cleopatra was the last of this dynasty but she was also far less consequential than the first three Ptolemies)

-location of key ancient Greek manuscripts for the New Testament that were preserved for many hundreds of years thanks to the arid climate

-use as breadbasket of ancient Rome

-in medieval times, the Mamluks

-historic leadership within the Islamic world of the Cairo theologians

Level 85

Jul 13, 2021

You mean Imhotep in the Mummy movies wasn't historically accurate??

Level 56

May 22, 2022

Honestly, some of these hints are rubbish. Like

"What ancient Egyptian capital is the namesake of a major city in Tennessee?"

"What city is the namesake of a popular Las Vegas casino?"

How would I know these as an Egyptian?

Level 89

Jul 23, 2022

There aren't too many ancient Egyptian capitals, and Memphis is not a totally unknown American city either.

As for the Luxor casino, it is quite famous for its pyramid and the extremely powerful light at its top. But I rather agree that a hint about the ancient temple of Thebes would be better.

Level 56

Aug 11, 2022

I don't usually complain about "American centrism" on this website but... seriously?

Level 71

Jun 24, 2022

I wonder why these are phrased as questions when the questions in a lot of the other country quizzes (and other quizzes in general) aren't.

Level 63

Feb 10, 2023

24/25, i could not, no matter how hard i tried, think of Mubarak.

Level 68

Mar 7, 2023

Could you accept Re for Ra?

Level 24

Apr 15, 2023

No! I couldn’t remember the name Anwar Sadat.

Level 73

Aug 23, 2023

Why are two questions in the Egypt quiz about the United States? Sure you can think of some better ones...

Level 80

Jan 29, 2024

Cool quiz. Surprised there wasn't a question on Nasser.

Level 81

Apr 10, 2024

Gamal Abdel Nasser, proud son of Beni Mur, beacon of Arab nationalism, hero of the Egyptian people. Yet no question on Nasser in this quiz?

Level 81

Apr 10, 2024

It would also be nice to mention the Mamluks who established Cairo, Muhammad Ali, the Wafd, and the Free Officers... But apparently there is no space.

Level 37

Jun 12, 2024

I'm an Egyptian who does this all the time. I always get 100%!!!!

Level 46

Aug 28, 2025

Bruh the silent "h" at the end of pharaoh cost me a first try attempt for the badge. Please change the type-ins, they make it hard for non-native speakers.