Merrill
Around 3000 BC was the first known use of what paper-like material by the Egyptians?
Papyrus
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.
Memphis
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?
Rosetta Stone
What is the name for the type of writings Ancient Egyptians would put on walls?
Hieroglyphics.
What European leader was able to conquer Egypt?
Napoleon Bonaparte
Archaeological research estimates that its initial nose was about 3 feet wide when it was first constructed around 2500 BC. What is this object?
The Sphinx
About 2,000 years before the Egyptians started using it, the Chinchorro people of Chile came up with which process for preserving their dead?
The Sphinx is inspired by this animal.
A cat.
What book the the Bible tells the story about Israelite liberation from Egypt?
The Book of Exodus
What is the compulsory civic duty that all Egyptian citizens must be a part of?
Voting
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?
Scissors
Along with Ancient Egyptian, the Rosetta Stone, carved during the Hellenistic period and key to the deciphering of hieroglyphics, features which other language?
Ancient Greek
Egyptians were considered the first type of what?
Graphic designers
What is the language which was the final language of Ancient Egypt?
The Coptic language
What is the name of the largest solar project in Africa which is located in Egypt?
Benban Solar Park
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?
Alexandria
What was the two-letter name of the Falcon-headed God of the Sun in ancient Egyptian mythology?
Ra
The first plague that God unleashed on the Egyptians when He sent Moses to free the Israelites, was when He turned water into what?
Blood
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?
Nefertiti
The conquest by what religious group led to Arabic replacing the Coptic language?
Muslim conquest
Chametz are foods with leavening agents that are forbidden on which Jewish holiday that celebrates the exodus of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt?
Passover
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?
Cholula
The only female Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh
Hatshepsut
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.
A crocodile.
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?
Pharaoh Eagle Owl