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Ancient Egypt quiz
How well do you really know Ancient Egypt? These 8 questions start easy and end with a Boss round. There are no multiple choice options: you type what you know, and every answer is checked against the key facts.
60 seconds a question, one 2x boost, and a leaderboard. Playing with friends writes a fresh set of Ancient Egypt questions for your group.
The questions
- Warm-up
What were ancient Egypt’s enormous royal tombs called, and which rulers were they built for?
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- Pyramids
- They were tombs
- They were built for pharaohs
- Easy
When the Nile flooded each year, how did the floodwater help Egyptian farmers, and what did it leave behind?
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- Floodwater spread across nearby land.
- It left fertile silt, or rich soil, behind.
- The enriched soil helped crops grow.
- Easy
A famous Egyptian tomb was found nearly intact in 1922. Which ruler was buried there, and who led the discovery?
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- The tomb belonged to Tutankhamun, also called King Tut.
- Howard Carter led the discovery.
- The tomb was found in 1922.
- Medium
What plant gave ancient Egyptians paper-like sheets, and how did they turn its stalks into writing material?
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- Papyrus
- They cut the stalks into strips
- They layered and pressed the strips into sheets
- Medium
When ancient Egyptians prepared a body for burial, which parts did they remove, and what substance did they use to dry the body?
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- They removed the brain and many internal organs.
- They usually left the heart in the body.
- They used natron, a natural salt mixture, to dry the body.
- Medium
What did Akhenaten put at the center of Egyptian religion, and what happened to the worship of other gods?
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- Akhenaten promoted the Aten, represented by the sun disk.
- He gave Aten worship special prominence.
- Worship of other gods was restricted or suppressed.
- Hard
At Deir el-Bahri, which female pharaoh commissioned the grand mortuary temple, and what was the temple called?
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- Hatshepsut commissioned it
- It was a mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahri
- It was called Djeser-Djeseru, or the Temple of Hatshepsut
- Boss
Along the Nile, what did ancient Egyptians call the fertile land and the desert, and which name belonged to each?
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- Kemet meant the fertile Nile land, or “Black Land.”
- Deshret meant the desert, or “Red Land.”
- The names referred to the dark fertile soil and the surrounding desert.
How scoring works
- Each question has 2 or 3 key facts. Each one earns full, half or no credit, so a wrong answer scores zero.
- Later questions are worth more, fast answers earn a bonus, and great answers in a row build a streak.
- A famous myth or a clear factual error halves the points.
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