Objective: answer at least 7 questions correctly. Only answer each question once or it will be counted as a mistake. JavaScript required!
Cleans up his room. Dies immediately. Suffers a slow, painful death. Nothing.
2. In 1923 Lord Carnarvon financed the excavation of King Tut's burial chamber. He died soon after it was opened. How did he die?
He died in a secret passage. He died from a mosquito bite. He was executed by Egyptian officials for opening the chamber. He was killed by grave robbers.
3. All the royal mummies, except King Tut, can be found:
In the Egyptian Museum. At a royal PTA meeting. In the Louvre. Nowhere - they were stolen by treasure seekers.
4. How long did it take Jean-Francois Champollion to translate the Rosetta Stone?
14 years. 40 years. 4 years. Forever, he never completed it.
5. How long did the hieroglyphs go undeciphered?
1,400 years. 400 years. 1,000 years. 500 years.
6. The Rosetta Stone has three scripts written upon it - hieroglyphic, demotic, and what other?
Latin Pig Latin Greek Hebrew
7. Egyptians believed each god could incarnate himself or herself as:
the Sun an animal Barney the next Pharoah
8. Actor Boris Karloff had modeled his costume in his famous movie 'The Mummy' on which King? went to:
Ramses III Tut Elvis Akhenaton
9. The process of mummification involved cleaning the body. The organs and intestines had to be removed before the body could be preserved. Using one method, the brain was removed:
through the eye sockets. through the nose. never removed. through the base of the skull.
10. The Great Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops) covers how many acres?
31 acres. 5 acres. 13 acres. 51 acres.
Your score is out of 10.