Egypt is a country with a rich history and culture that spans thousands of years. Known for its ancient pyramids and temples, Egypt is a treasure trove of trivia facts and information. Some of the most interesting Egypt trivia facts include the fact that the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Sphinx are the only remaining ancient wonders of the world. The ancient Egyptians built these structures over 4,500 years ago and they continue to fascinate people to this day. Ancient Egypt was also one of the most advanced civilizations during its time, with a sophisticated system of hieroglyphics and a complex religion.
The Egyptians believed in many gods and goddesses, and built temples and pyramids to honor them. They also made significant contributions to the fields of mathematics, medicine, and architecture. In addition, Egypt has a rich cultural heritage that can be seen in its art, music, and dance. Egyptian art, for example, is known for its elaborate hieroglyphics, bold colors, and striking imagery. The country's traditional music, meanwhile, features a mix of Arabic, African, and Mediterranean influences.
From the Nile river to the Sahara desert, Egypt has a lot to offer to tourists and history enthusiasts.
60 Egypt Trivia Questions Ranked From Easiest to Hardest (Updated for 2024)
- In the 2002 cult classic film “Bubba Ho-Tep,” Elvis Presley and a fella who claims to be JFK in hiding defend a retirement home from what kind of reanimated Egyptian ghoul?
Answer: Mummy
- “Compulsory,” “universal civic duty,” and “mandatory” are all terms that describe which act that citizens of legal age must partake in if they live in countries like Australia, Luxembourg, and Egypt?
Answer: Voting
- Famously burned by Julius Caesar, one of the greatest libraries of the ancient world was founded in the third century BC in what Egyptian city?
Answer: Alexandria
- According to certain interpretations, Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum may have been the first recorded instance of a same-sex couple. They were both servants in what ancient civilization?
Answer: Egypt
- Two bronze blades resembling scythes: That's how ancient Egyptians defeated paper circa 1500 BCE in one of the earliest examples of what school supply?
Answer: Scissors
- Created in the 15th century BC, the oldest object in New York City's Central Park is an obelisk also known as the "needle" of what Ptolemaic Egyptian queen?
Answer: Cleopatra
- Archaeological research estimates that its initial nose was about 3 feet wide when it was first constructed around 2500 BC. What is this object?
Answer: The Sphinx
- The celebration of Passover commemorates the Exodus of the Jewish people from the pharaoh’s subjugation in which ancient land?
Answer: Egypt
- During the beginning of the third episode of "Moon Knight," Marc Spector (and Steven Grant) experience multiple blackouts in what Egyptian capital city while attempting to pursue Arthur Harrow?
Answer: Cairo
- The Papyrus of Kahun contains the first record of veterinary medicine. It dates back to the reign of Amenemhat III over what African kingdom?
Answer: Egypt
- Now owned by Heineken, the Al Ahram Brewery was nationalized during the 1960s tenure of President Nasser in what African country?
Answer: Egypt
- The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus was written in the 17th century BC and contains the earliest recorded reference to the brain. In what ancient empire was this papyrus written?
Answer: Egypt
- Around 3000 BC was the first known use of what paper-like material by the Egyptians?
Answer: Papyrus
- Providing its name (and its image for the logo) to a modern piece of modern language learning software, what ancient stone slab discovered in Egypt in 1799 provided the key to deciphering hieroglyphics, and is now the most visited item on display in the British Museum?
Answer: The Rosetta Stone
- What is the popular hairless breed of cat that's name is inspired by Egyptian culture?
Answer: Sphynx
- The first plague that God unleashed on the Egyptians when He sent Moses to free the Israelites, was when He turned water into what?
Answer: Blood
- Home to a Great Pyramid of the non-Egyptian variety, which city in Puebla, Mexico gives its name to a wooden-capped brand of hot sauce?
Answer: Cholula
- Hatshepsut was one of the only female pharaohs of which ancient civilization, reigning from around 1478 BC until she died in 1458 BC?
Answer: Egypt
- The largest solar project in Africa is Benban Solar Park, located in the desert approximately 50 km north of Aswan in what country?
Answer: Egypt
- Chametz are foods with leavening agents that are forbidden on which Jewish holiday that celebrates the exodus of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt?
Answer: Passover
- The dead Coptic language is the final stage of the language of what ancient culture? The modern African country that bears this culture’s name is largely covered by the Sahara Desert.
Answer: Egyptian
- Which former capital of Ancient Egypt is located 12 miles (20 km) south of Cairo on the west bank of the Nile? The city in question shares its name with a city in Tennessee.
Answer: Memphis
- One of the first writings about Singapore was when what “P” Ancient Egyptian astronomer and geographer identified a place on the Malay Peninsula that he called “Sabana?”
Answer: Ptolemy
- The recreation of which famous Egyptian landmark at the Luxor is actually taller than the original (by two stories!)?
Answer: Sphinx
- Along with Ancient Egyptian, the Rosetta Stone, carved during the Hellenistic period and key to the deciphering of hieroglyphics, features which other language?
Answer: Ancient Greek
- About 2,000 years before the Egyptians started using it, the Chinchorro people of Chile came up with which process for preserving their dead?
Answer: Mummification
- What holiest day of the Jewish year focuses on atonement with a fast, confession, and prayer? It lent its name to an armed conflict between Israel and a coalition of Egypt and Syria in 1973.
Answer: Yom Kippur
- What was the two-letter name of the Falcon-headed God of the Sun in ancient Egyptian mythology?
Answer: Ra
- U.S. inventor Frank Shuman built the world's first thermal solar power station in 1913 at Maadi, in what African country? The power station provided energy to power pumps for agriculture.
Answer: Egypt
- Until a country broke off from it in 2011, Africa's largest nation by land area was what neighbor of Egypt?
Answer: Sudan
- In 1956, Israel invaded Egypt, followed by the UK and France, forcing outside pressure from the United States. This crisis is referred to by what name? It refers to the canal the Western powers were hoping to control.
Answer: Suez Crisis
- 2022 saw the MCU debut, on Disney+, of what lunar anti-hero, played by Oscar Isaac, a white-clad hero struggling with mental issues and his connection to an Egyptian god?
Answer: Moon Knight
- Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, what 1956 three-hour-plus epic film stars Charlton Heston as Moses, who is raised as a prince of Egypt and leads the Israelites out of slavery?
Answer: The Ten Commandments
- The book of Exodus tells of the Israelite liberation from slavery under which nation?
Answer: Egypt
- The first capital of Egypt shares its name with which southern U.S. city that may not have any pyramids, but once was home to the King?
Answer: Memphis
- All and all, there were 10 plagues of Egypt. The first appears in EXODUS 7: 14-17 when the river turns from water into which bodily fluid?
Answer: Blood
- In the Bible, which Egyptian land is noted for being the place that the Pharaoh of Joseph gave to the Hebrews (Genesis 45:9–10)? (Hint: It’s also the place they left in Exodus).
Answer: Goshen
- In ancient Egyptian mythology, the god Geb, who is often depicted with the head of a goose, is the father of what underworld god who married his sister Isis?
Answer: Osiris
- Before being renamed in honor of a great leader in 331 BC, which Egyptian empire was built on a settlement known as Rhakotis?
Answer: Alexandria
- Which Virginian city shares its name with the second-most populous city in Egypt?
Answer: Alexandria
- The tallest building in Africa is the newly completed (as of early 2023) Iconic Tower in the New Administrative Capital of what country? The tower stands 1,292 feet (393.8 meters) tall.
Answer: Egypt
- Also known as the Desert Eagle Owl, Savigny's Eagle Owl or the Sahara Eagle Owl, which eagle owl that shares a name with ancient Egyptian rulers are found in the rocky deserts of northwestern Africa and the Middle East?
Answer: Pharaoh Eagle Owl
- Africa's two oldest universities (in Morocco and Egypt) came into existence before 1000 A.D. The third oldest is a relative youngster, dating back to 1827, and located in what West African nation?
Answer: Sierra Leone
- In January 2024, two African countries agreed to join the BRICS emerging countries group. One was Egypt. What was the other one, a landlocked power in the Horn of Africa region?
Answer: Ethiopia
- What third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt is often regarded as the most powerful pharaoh of the New Kingdom? His successors and later Egyptians called him the "Great Ancestor". He is known as Ozymandias in Greek sources
Answer: Ramesses the Great
- What ancient civilization is often considered the "first graphic designers" because they would often brand domestic animals with hieroglyphs to mark ownership?
Answer: Egypt
- In ancient Egypt, which Queen, whose name translates as “a beautiful woman has come”, was the wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten and was once considered a candidate for Tutankhamun’s mother?
Answer: Nefertiti
- A Roman Egyptian structure, saved in 1963 from the flooding caused by the creation of the Aswan Dam and donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is known as the "Temple of" what Nubian city?
Answer: Dendur
- Parts of England's River Thames are known alternatively by what name that is also the name of an ancient Egyptian goddess?
Answer: Isis
- The Premier League record for most goals scored in a single 38-game season was set by what Egyptian-born Liverpool player in 2018?
Answer: Mo Salah
- When reading the King James version of the Bible, the last word of the Book of Genesis is the name of what Middle Eastern country?
Answer: Egypt
- The Ancient Egyptian deity Anubis, god of mummification and the afterlife, was typically depicted as having the head of which wild canid?
Answer: Jackal
- What opera by Giuseppe Verdi had its premiere on Christmas Eve, 1871 in the Khedivial Opera House of Cairo, Egypt?
Answer: Aida
- The sports teams of Southern Illinois University are named for what Egyptian dog breed, sometimes called "Persian greyhounds?"
Answer: Salukis
- Sobek, an Egyptian commonly referred to in Egyptian texts, is commonly depicted having the head of what animal? This god is associated with fertility and military prowess.
Answer: Crocodile
- Benban Solar Park is a desert-located solar power station with planned capacity 3.8 TWh. It is currently the 4th-largest solar power plant in the world with plans to become the largest at some point. In what country would you find this massive installation that is visible from outer space?
Answer: Egypt
- The Muslim conquest of Egypt led to Arabic replacing what language, descended from Egyptian and still in use as the liturgical language of the Egyptian Catholic and Orthodox Churches, though it has no native speakers?
Answer: Coptic
- The southern end of the Suez Canal is at the Egyptian city of Suez. In what city is the northern end?
Answer: Port Said
- Although known to the ancient Egyptians, pure methanol was first isolated by what English chemist in 1661?
Answer: Robert Boyle
- What is the name of the Egypt-based software company that primarily offers a bug reporting tool with a "Shake to Send" feature? The company integrates with many other tools thought its SDK and raised $5 million in a Series A led by Accel in 2020.
Answer: Instabug
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