Egypt Jeopardy Questions
Herodotus recorded that the mummification process took this many days.
70 days
According to David Down, this sojourner to Egypt may have helped Khufu with his advanced knowledge of mathematics and engineering.
Abraham
This pharaoh built the first professional fighting force.
Amosis the first
This dam, built by the British and completed in 1902, tamed the flooding of the Nile River for the first time.
Aswan Dam
Khufu is also known by this Greek name.
Cheops
This Scottish missionary spent much of his time exploring Africa in his search for the source of the Nile River.
David Livingstone
The first step pyramid was built for this pharaoh's burial.
Djoser
Egyptian sailboats took advantage of these winds to sail south against the Nile River's current.
Etesian winds
This area, just south of Cairo on the west side of the Nile is home to the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx.
Giza
This female pharaoh dressed like a man and wore a fake beard, presumably because she might not have been accepted as ruler.
Hatshpsut
44. This Greek Historian viewed the ruins of Egypt in the fifth century B.C.
Herodotus
These Asiatics, people from the north, invaded Egypt around the time of the Exodus apparently without encountering opposition.
Hyksos
These periods—some say two, others say three—were times of chaos and disorder.
Intermediate Period
This Frenchman worked tirelessly until he eventually cracked the code of Egyptian writing.
Jean Francois Champollion
This famous vizier ended up in Egypt because his brothers sold him into slavery.
Joseph
This son of Khufu thought he could protect his pyramid by building the Great Shpinx in front of it.
Khafre
The Blue Nile and the White Nile converge near this Egyptian city.
Khartoum
The Great Pyramid, one of the wonders of the ancient world, was built for this pharaoh's burial.
Khufu
Eventually the source of the Nile River was traced to this lake in central Africa.
Lake Victoria
This Egyptian priest and scholar was the first to chronicle the kings of Egypt.
Manetho
The Nile River empties into this sea.
Mediterranean
This ancient capital of Egypt can also be found in Tennessee.
Memphis
Scholars credit this king of Upper Egypt with unifying Upper and Lower Egypt to become the first king of the unified states.
Menes
This son of Ham settled in Egypt.
Mizraim
One of the pharaoh's daughters rescued this Hebrew baby who was hidden in the reeds of the Nile.
Moses
This French general led his military into Egypt, where one of his soldiers discovered the Rosetta Stone.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The pharaoh Menes is also known by these two names.
Narmar and Aha
Egyptians used this form of hydrated sodium salts in the mummification process.
Natron
This river in Egypt is the longest river in the world.
Nile River
This fan-shaped area at the mouth of the Nile was one of the most fertile areas in the world.
Nile River Delta
One of the tunnels in the Great Pyramid points directly to a star in the belt of this constellation.
Orion
This pharaoh loved making images of himself, and on his mortuary temple in Thebes, he had a 57-foot-high statue of himself that weighed 1,000 tons.
Ramesses the Great
Abu Simbel is the mortuary temple of this great Egyptian pharaoh.
Ramesses the great
This large black stone held the key to deciphering hieroglyphics.
Rosetta Stone
This desert, the largest in the world, was one of the natural barriers that protected Ancient Egypt from invasion.
Sahara Desert
Another tunnel in the Great Pyramid points directly to this star, which is also the name of modern day satellite radio station.
Sirius
David Livingstone was the first European to see the beautiful waterfall that lays claim to being the world's largest sheet of falling water.
Victoria Falls
In honour of Britain's reigning monarch, David Livingstone gave this name to the beautiful waterfall he discovered on the Zambezi River.
Victoria falls
Belief in this explains why the Egyptians were so concerned about building tombs to protect their bodies.
afterlife
The angle on this pyramid changed direction part way up, indicating that the builders realized the slope they started with could not be maintained.
bent pyramid
This important part of the body was reportedly extracted by a hook through the nose.
brain
Egyptians used these jars to store the dead person's internal organs.
canopic jars
In ancient times, Upper Egypt extended to the beginning of this series of six rapids.
cataracts
Dog people would not understand the Egyptian's fascination with these animals which they immortalized by mummifying them.
cats
In the more organized structure of the military in the New Kingdom, young men had to worry about this forced military service.
conscription
Egyptian history is divided into 30 or 31 of these periods where kings from one family reigned.
dynasties
In Ancient Egypt, as in today, his person prepares a dead body for burial.
embalmer
This severe shortage of food in Canaan caused Joseph's brothers to come to Egypt.
famine
These typical Egyptian sailboats still sail along the Nile River using the Etesian winds to go south, and the river's current to go north.
feluccas
linen fabric is woven from the fibers of this blue-flowering plant.
flax
In system of organization, levels of authority are ranked one above the other.
hierarchy
This Egyptian writing at first appears to be simple pictographs, but is actually made up mostly of symbols representing syllabic sounds.
hieroglyphics
Abu Simbel, the great temple of Ramesses the Great, was relocated during the building of this dam, built only four kilometres upstream from the original Aswan Dam.
high dam
This particular type of climate is the reason so many Egyptian artifacts have been preserved for thousands of years.
hot and dry
This division of the Egyptian military consisted mainly of foot soldiers.
infantry
These table-like structures were the first tombs used for pharaohs.
mastabas
Eventually pharaohs stopped building pyramids and instead showed a preference for being buried in one of these tombs.
mortuary temple
This process, meant to preserve the body for the afterlife, took 70 days to complete.
mummification
These districts or provinces in Ancient Egypt were governed by a nomarch.
nomes
Unlike most rivers in the region, the Nile River flows in this direction.
north
Our word "paper" comes from the name of this reed that grows along the banks of the Nile.
papyrus
This Jewish holiday commemorates the angel of death passing over their homes during the final plague.
passover
This box, where a mummy was placed, was often made of granite or other stone including alabaster.
sarcophagus
Boys who excelled at writing in school might get a job as one of these.
scribe
The invention of this device helped farmers get water from the Nile River into their storage canals.
shadoof
These large stone statues, which have the bodies of lions and the heads of men, rams, or hawks, dotted the landscape of Ancient Egypt.
sphinx
As the Egyptian military invaded other countries and collected this tax, Egypt became very wealthy.
tribute
The man who held this important position was second only to the pharaoh in status and power.
vizier