Merrill
Gardens
Jeopardy
Egypt
Edition
100

Around 3000 BC was the first known use of what paper-like material by the Egyptians?

Papyrus

100

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

100

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

100

What is the name for the type of writings Ancient Egyptians would put on walls?

Hieroglyphics.

100

What European leader was able to conquer Egypt?

Napoleon Bonaparte

200

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

200

About 2,000 years before the Egyptians started using it, the Chinchorro people of Chile came up with which process for preserving their dead?

Mummification
200

The Sphinx is inspired by this animal.

A cat.

200

What book the the Bible tells the story about Israelite liberation from Egypt?

The Book of Exodus

200

What is the compulsory civic duty that all Egyptian citizens must be a part of?

Voting

300

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

300

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

300

Egyptians were considered the first type of what?

Graphic designers

300

What is the language which was the final language of Ancient Egypt?

The Coptic language

300

What is the name of the largest solar project in Africa which is located in Egypt? 

Benban Solar Park

400

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

400

What was the two-letter name of the Falcon-headed God of the Sun in ancient Egyptian mythology?

Ra

400

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

400

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

400

The conquest by what religious group led to Arabic replacing the Coptic language?

Muslim conquest

500

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

500

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

500

The only female Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh

Hatshepsut  

500

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.

500

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