Re: Listy's Themed Quiz * Egypt * 22/01

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22/January - Egypt

1) Who succeeded Anwar Sadat following his assassination in 1981 and has been President ever since? 

Hosni Mubarak

2) Which American actor provided the voice for both Moses and God in the 1998 animated film 'The Prince of Egypt'?

3) Creator of the universe, which god took the form of a solar disc? 

Aten

4) Now in the British Museum, name the granite stone discovered in 1799 by Pierre-François Bouchard containing Egyptian and Greek, using three scripts, Hieroglyphic, Demotic Egyptian and Greek? 

Rosetta Stone

5) In which city are the remains of the temples of Ptah and Apis?

6) Which Sixth dynasty ruler of Egypt's Old Kingdom is generally thought to have ruled for 94 years making his reign the longest of any monarch? 

Cheops

7) With the exception of the Great Pyramid of Giza, this ancient wonder of the world survived the longest, it was destroyed by two earthquakes in 1303 and 1323, name it. 

Library at Alexandria

8) Who is the god of Destruction, Thunder, War and Evil who slew his brother Osiris only for his consort Isis to bring him back to life?

9) Married to Nefertiti, what name did Amenhotep IV take when he became a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt?

10) What name is given to the indigenous form of Christianity that was established by the apostle Mark in Egypt around 42 AD? 

Coptic

11) Son of Neith, he symbolised the fertility of the Nile River and the authority of the pharaohs, what type of creature was the Egyptian God Sobek?

12) Which group released the single 'Walk Like An Egyptian' in 1986? 

Bangles

13) In 1922 the 5th Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter opened the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, exposing treasures unsurpassed in the history of archaeology. What is 5th Earl of Carnarvon's name?

14) What year saw the opening of the Suez Canal? 

1957

15) Which popular tourist resort overlooking the Strait of Tiran at the mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba saw a series of bombings in 2005? 

Taba

16) Who was the Egyptian protector goddess of women and children, often depicted as part crocodile, part lion and part hippopotamus?

17) Adviser to King Zoser, he was probably the architect of the so-called Step Pyramid at Sakkara, which physician did the Greeks identify with their own god of healing Asclepius? 

Aeschylus

18) Which town is home to the Great Sphinx?

19) One of the most familiar of Egyptian hieroglyphs, it resembles the Christian cross, with a loop above the transverse bar. What is this hieroglyphic charcater called? 

Ankh

20) Which legendary actor is also one of the world's best known contract bridge players? 

Omar Sharif

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