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Exploring Egypt: A Quiz on History, Culture, and Landmarks

Test your knowledge about Egypt's history, culture, and landmarks with this engaging quiz.

#Egypt #History #Culture #Geography #Tourism

1 What does the following picture show?  Giza Pyramids   The Great Sphinx and the Pyramids of Giza, built during the Old Kingdom, are modern national icons that are at the heart of Egypt's thriving tourism industry.   Cairo's unique cityscape with its ancient mosques. Cairo is known as the "city of a thousand minarets"   Suez Canal Bridge

2 When was Egypt established?

3 Who played Leonard in the movie Egypt?

4 What type of government does Egypt have?

5 Which of the following is an officially recognised ethnic group in Egypt?

6 What is the calling code of Egypt?

7 What is the leader of Egypt called?

8 What is the currency of Egypt?

9 What does the following picture show?  Cairo International Stadium   The Nile River near Aswan.   Mosque of Muhammad Ali   Tourists ride in a traditional Nile boat.

10 What is the capital of Egypt?

đź’ˇ Interesting Facts

  • on July 30, 1970, Israeli and Soviet fighter pilots battled in the skies over Egypt in an engagement codenamed Rimon 20.
  • on December 26 and 27, 1969 during the War of Attrition the elite special forces unit Sayeret Matkal kidnapped a whole Egyptian P-12 radar system in a mission called Operation Rooster 53.
  • talks between President Gerald Ford and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1975 were held at the Deerwood Country Club in Jacksonville, Florida.
  • the Byzantine Komnenian army was deployed in places as far-ranging as Italy, Hungary, and Egypt, and was instrumental in the Komnenian restoration of the empire.
  • the Egyptian actress Faten Hamama has received more than forty awards and starred in almost one hundred films.
  • many of the earliest known copies of the New Testament are remains of papyrus books from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt (papyrus pictured).
  • in Tanta, Egypt, some restaurants sell an "al-Tourbini sandwich", named after a serial child killer.
  • during Operation Raviv of September 1969, Israeli troops used captured Arab armor (T-55 pictured) to raid Egypt's Red Sea coast.
  • during his Eastern journey Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovitch of Russia visited Egypt, India, China and Japan travelling a distance of more than 51,000 km (31,500 mi).
  • during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, 105 Israelis were taken prisoner by Egypt in the Battle of Nitzanim, which was viewed as humiliating in Israel.
  • half-Egyptian Bazil Ashmawy spent a night with ghostbusters in a haunted shopping centre and was hypnotised by witches to meet his ancestors for his TV show Baz's Culture Clash.
  • the mentally ill Egyptian policeman who perpetrated the Ras Burqa massacre, killing seven Israeli tourists, including four children, was hailed in the Egyptian opposition press as a national hero.
  • the Democratic Movement for National Liberation was the sole communist faction in Egypt that supported the 1952 Revolution.
  • the historian and geographer Robin Donkin served in Egypt and Jordan as a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery.
  • the fifth-century Syriac Curetonian Gospels found in Egypt represent a considerably older, independent textual tradition of the four gospels.
  • the slang term brass razoo is speculated to have originated from Egyptian or Indian currency.
  • when Zionists and the Jewish Anti-Zionist League clashed in Cairo in 1947, Egyptian police sided with the Zionists.
  • while fleeing from Greece to Egypt during World War II, a frustrated Olivia Manning used a chamberpot to crush a fellow refugee's Parisian hats.
  • the Roman merchants who traded with ancient Tamil country, used the monsoon winds to reduce the travel time between Egypt and India to forty days.
  • the Gospel of Philip was one of the many Gnostic writings found in 1946 in the Egyptian village of Nag Hammâdi.
  • the Dendera zodiac (pictured), an ancient relief on display at the Louvre, was originally a planisphere on the ceiling of a temple in Egypt.
  • the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was re-established on 15 March 1922, less than a month after Egypt was officially granted independence from Britain.
  • the United States Africa Command, the newest U.S. military Unified Combatant Command, will cover all of Africa, except for Egypt.
  • the Workers Committee for National Liberation, a communist labour group, was broken up by the Egyptian government in January 1946.
  • after serving in U.S. embassies in Egypt and Lebanon, Edward Sheehan wrote his debut novel Kingdom of Illusion about the playboy king of a fictional Middle Eastern country.
  • after Egyptian land reform individual land ownership in Egypt was limited to a maximum of 200 feddans.
  • British Conservative Member of Parliament Cyril Banks was friendly with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, and left his party over the Suez Crisis.
  • Irish television celebrity Bazil Ashmawy was born in Libya and is half Egyptian.
  • Abdel Latif Boghdadi resigned his position as vice president of Egypt because Nasser adopted a more Soviet Union-style system for Egypt rather than closer United States relations.
  • Andronikos Kontostephanos was the leading general of Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos, and that his career took him from Hungary to Egypt.
  • Coptic architectural monuments in Christian Cairo include the Hanging Church, one of the oldest in Egypt.
  • Israeli pilot and peace activist Abie Nathan landed his plane in Egypt in 1966 in an attempt to deliver a message of peace to President Nasser.
  • Egyptian military figure and politician Youssef Seddik launched the first military procedures in the July 23 Revolution of 1952.
  • Egypt had an active national cricket team before World War II, but only one player was a native Egyptian.
  • Egypt's Fahd Armored Personnel Carrier has specialized variants ranging from an infantry fighting vehicle to a command post vehicle to deal with different threats.
  • Egyptian actor C. K. Alexander composed under the pseudonyms Mario Quimber and Basheer Qadar.
  • Egyptian diplomat Amr Bey picked up squash while posted in the United Kingdom and went on to win six consecutive British Open Squash Championships in the 1930s.
  • Gamal Salem was chief judge of the court that sentenced seven Muslim Brotherhood leaders to death for participating in an assassination attempt on Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
  • Heba Kotb, Egypt's first licensed sexologist, hosts a call-in show named The Big Talk where she gives Qur'anic advice.
  • Zarafa was a giraffe presented to Charles X of France from Mehmet Ali Pasha, the Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt in 1826, to encourage the King of France to end his support for the Greeks in their fight for independence.
  • King Farouk I of Egypt secretly communicated with representatives of Nazi Germany during World War II through his father-in-law Youssef Zulficar Pasha, Egypt's first ambassador to Iran.
  • Sir Douglas Dodds-Parker, a junior Foreign Office minister during the Suez Crisis in 1956, was sacked by new Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1957 for his private opposition to the invasion of Egypt.
  • after Egypt was defeated by Israel during the Six-Day War the Egyptian government issued copies of the Hope paintings to its troops.
  • Yolande Harmer, who was one of the most prominent Israeli spies in Egypt in 1948 is thought of as "Israel's Mata Hari".
  • Richard Henry Savage (pictured) served in Egypt for a year with Charles Pomeroy Stone in the Egyptian Army, under Khedive Isma'il Pasha.
  • Khaled Mohieddin, a former member of the Free Officers Movement, founded the leftist Taggamu party in Egypt.
  • Melek Tourhan, whose father offered her for adoption as an infant in order to improve her lot in life, went on to become Sultana of Egypt.
  • Prince Kamal el Dine Hussein (pictured), the only person in Egyptian history to voluntarily renounce his rights of succession to the throne, did so to pursue a life of discovery and travel.
  • Qualifying Industrial Zones are special free-trade zones in Jordan and Egypt created to take advantage of the free trade agreements between the United States and Israel.
  • Armant is a breed of dog which originated in Egypt.
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