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Religion
Geography and
Arts &
Architecture
Politics
Economic and
Social
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Egyptologists:
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Final Jeopardy
Category 1 questions follow
Question
What is the belief in more than one god?
Answer
Polytheism
Question
What are specially treated bodies wrapped in cloth?
Answer
Mummies
Question
What is the term for life after death?
Answer
The Afterlife
Question
What are imaginary creatures with the bodies of
lions and the heads of other animals or humans?
Answer
Sphinxes
Question
What is the process by which you preserve bodies so
they won’t decay? (This creates mummies!)
Answer
Embalming
Category 2 questions follow
Question
What river runs from central Africa 4,000 miles to
the Mediterranean Sea?
Answer
The Nile
Question
What is the Egyptian writing system of symbols
which was one of world's first writing systems?
Answer
Hieroglyphics
Question
What is the term for a triangle shaped area of land
made of soil deposited by a river?
Answer
A delta
Question
What was a long lasting paper-like material made
from reeds?
Answer
Papyrus
Question
What were huge stone tombs with four triangle
shaped walls that met at a point on top?
Answer
Pyramids
Category 3 questions follow
Question
Who was the rule who sought to unify Upper and
Lower Egypt; invaded lower Egypt and married a
princess; considered first pharaoh?
Answer
Menes
Question
What is a dynasty?
Answer
A series of rulers from the same family?
Question
Who was the pharaoh whose tomb was found
undisturbed in 1922? Also known as the Boy King?
Answer
King Tutankhamen or King Tut
Question
What pharaoh was married to the Pharaoh
Thutmose II before he died and their son was too
young to rule so she dressed as a man and called
herself king?
Answer
Queen Hatshepsut
Question
Who was the most famous pharaoh of the Old
Kingdom ruling in 2500 BC; best known for
monuments to him?
Answer
Khufu
Category 4 questions follow
Question
What are imports?
Answer
Goods brought in from other regions
Question
What is a system of people in different lands who
trade goods?
Answer
A trade network
Question
What is the title used by the ruler of Egypt means
"Great House?”
Answer
Pharaoh
Question
Who are honored people that worked for
government and temples keeping records and
accounts and copying religious and literary texts?
Answer
Scribes
Question
What is the terms that means items send out to
other regions?
Answer
Exports
Final Jeopardy follows
Question
What was a stone slab inscribed with hieroglyphics
with text in Greek and a later form of Egyptian
which helped scientists to decode hieroglyphics?
Answer
The Rosetta Stone