Fun World Trivia Questions and Answers

1. Who called Egypt “the Gift of the Nile”?

(a) Hippocrates
(b) Cicero
(c) Herodotus
(d) Ptolemy

Answer: (c) Herodotus

2. What is the capital city of Egypt?

(a) Khartoum
(b) Cairo
(c) Bamako
(d) Cape Town

Answer: (b) Cairo

3. Egypt is the ______ most populous country in Africa.

(a) Fourth
(b) Third
(c) Second
(d) Fifth

Answer: (b) Third

4. Egypt is popularly known as the:

(a) Land of Cakes
(b) Land of Lilies
(c) Land of Maple
(d) Land of Pyramids

Answer: (d) Land of Pyramids

5. In which year was the Suez Canal officially opened?

(a) 1869
(b) 1879
(c) 1889
(d) 1909

Answer: (a) 1869

6. The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean Sea with the:

(a) Atlantic Ocean
(b) Red Sea
(c) Pacific Ocean
(d) Black Sea

Answer: (b) Red Sea

7. In which year was the Suez Canal nationalized?

(a) 1955
(b) 1957
(c) 1956
(d) 1958

Answer: (c) 1956

8. Which Egyptian president nationalized the Suez Canal?

(a) Hosni Mubarak
(b) Anwar Sadat
(c) Gamal Abdel Nasser
(d) Ferdinand de Lesseps

Answer: (c) Gamal Abdel Nasser

9. Who is regarded as the chief architect and promoter of the Suez Canal project?

(a) Gustave Eiffel
(b) Ferdinand de Lesseps
(c) Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
(d) Le Corbusier

Answer: (b) Ferdinand de Lesseps

10. What was the nationality of Ferdinand de Lesseps?

(a) Egyptian
(b) American
(c) Swiss
(d) French

Answer: (d) French