Facts About World -Egypt (Chapter-1)

Facts About World -Egypt
(Chapter-1)

1. Who called Egypt ‘the gift of the Nile’?

(a) Hippocrates                                    (b) Cicero

(c) Herodotus                                       (d) Ptolemy

Answer: (c)

2. The capital of Egypt:

(a) Khartoum                                       (b) Cairo

(c) Bamako                                           (d) Cape Town

Answer: (b)

3. Egypt is the ....... most populous country in the continent of Africa.

(a) Fourth                                                 (b) Third

(c) second                                                 (d) Fifth

Answer: (b)

4. Egypt is known as:

(a) Land of Cakes                                    (b) Land of Lilies

(c) Land of Maple                                    (d) Land of Pyramid

Answer: (d)

5. The Suez Canal was opened in .........

(a) 1869                                                       (b) 1879

(c) 1889                                                       (d) 1909

Answer: (a)

6. The Suez Canal connects Mediterranean Sea and .........

(a) Atlantic Ocean                                     (b) Red Sea

(c) Pacific Ocean                                        (d) Black Sea

Answer: (b)

7. The Suez Canal was nationalised in.......

(a) 1955                                                     (b) 1957

(c) 1956                                                      (d) 1958

Answer: (c)

8. The Egyptian president who nationalized Suez Canal:

(a) Hozni Mubarak                                        (b) Anwar Sadat

(c) Abdul Nasser                                      (d) Ferdinand de Lesseps

Answer: (c)

9. The architect of Suez canal is .........

(a) Gustav Eiffel                                             (b) Ferdinand de Lesseps

(c) Bartholdi                                                   (d) Corbusier

Answer: (b)

10. The nationality of Ferdinand de Lesseps:

(a) Egypt                                                           (b) USA

(c) Switzerland                                                (d) France

Answer: (d)

11. The length of Suez Canal is now ....... kms

(a) 192                                                                (b) 292

(c) 392                                                                (d) 492

Answer: (a)

12. ......... is the Asian part of Egypt.

(a) Gaza                                                              (b) Sinai Peninsula

(c) Anatolia                                                        (d) Asia Minor

Answer: (b)

13. T he city of Alexandria was founded by ...... in B.C.332.

(a) Caesar                                                          (b) Cleopatra

(c) Alexander the Great                                 (d) Ptolemy

Answer: (c)

14. .......was the script of ancient Egyptians.

(a) Hieroglyphics                                              (b) Cuneiform

(c) Pictographic                                                 (d) Devanagari

Answer: (a)

15. Ancient Egyptians worshipped ........

(a) Rats                                                               (b) Cats

(c) Tiger                                                              (d) Elephant

Answer: (b)

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