Question: What is the Hebrew name for Egypt?
Answer: מִצְרַיִם

Question: What is the oldest term for Egypt?
Answer: Akkadian

Question: What does the oldest know term for Egypt translate to?
Answer: "border" or "frontier".

Question: During 6000 BC what area was occupied by a Neolithic culture?
Answer: Nile Valley

Question: What culture succeeded the Naqada culture?
Answer: Badarian culture

Question: When is the earliest hieroglyghics date back?
Answer: 3200 BC

Question: How long did cultures coexist in lower Egypt?
Answer: more than two thousand years

Question: How long was the upheval of the first Intermediate period?
Answer: 150 years

Question: In 1650 BC Lower Egypt was control by what invaders?
Answer: Hyksos

Question: What new capital was founded in 1650, lower Egypt?
Answer: Avaris

Question: What was the first foreign ruling dynasty of Egypt?
Answer: Semitic Hyksos

Question: What year were the New Kingdom in control?
Answer: 1550–1070 BC

Question: What dynasty maked the rise of Egypt as international power?
Answer: Eighteenth Dynasty

Question: Who were some well known Pharaohs of the New Kindom?
Answer: Hatshepsut, Thutmose III, Akhenaten and his wife Nefertiti, Tutankhamun and Ramesses II

Question: Who were some of the invaders to Egypt during the New Kingdom?
Answer: Libyans, Nubians and Assyrians

Question: Who took control of Egypt in 525 BC?
Answer: Achaemenid Persians

Question: What pharaoh was captured by the group led by Camyses II?
Answer: Psamtik III

Question: From where did Camyses II rule Egypt?
Answer: Susa in Persia

Question: What was the duration of the 27th dynasty of Egypt?
Answer: 525 BC to 402 BC,

Question: What were the reaches of the Ptolemaic Kingdom?
Answer: Syria in the east, to Cyrene to the west, and south to the frontier with Nubia

Question: What were leaders known as during Ptolemaic Kingdom?
Answer: Pharaohs

Question: What was the capital in the Prolemaic Kingdom?
Answer: Alexandria

Question: What religious life was the Ptolemaic Kingdom?
Answer: Egyptian

Question: Who was last ruler of Ptolemaic Kingdom?
Answer: Cleopatra VII

Question: Who captured Alexandria, ending Ptolemaic rule?
Answer: Octavian

Question: How did Mark Anthony's love die?
Answer: suicide

Question: What culture annexed Egypt?
Answer: Rome

Question: Who took control of Egypt from Sasanian Persian rule?
Answer: Byzantines

Question: What war gave Sasanin Persians control of Egypt?
Answer: Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628

Question: How long were Sasanin Persians ruling Egypt?
Answer: ten years

Question: What religion did Arabs bring to Egypt?
Answer: Sunni Islam

Question: Who modernized Egyptian army?
Answer: Muhammad Ali Pasha

Question: In what 2 ways was Army improved?
Answer: strengthening it with numbers and in skill

Question: Why did military use barracks?
Answer: to avoid distraction of their growth

Question: What traits grew among military men that helped Ali maintain rule?
Answer: nationalism and pride

Question: When was Suez canal completed?
Answer: 1869

Question: Who partnered with Egypt to build Suez Canal?
Answer: French

Question: In what year did Egypt sell its portion of Suez Canal?
Answer: 1875

Question: Who sold Egypt's portion of Suez?
Answer: Ismail

Question: To whom did Egypt sell its interest in Suez Canal?
Answer: British Government

Question: When was new constitution drafted?
Answer: 1923

Question: What system of government was constitution based on?
Answer: parliamentary system

Question: Who was elected in 1924?
Answer: Saad Zaghlul

Question: Who succeeded King Farouk?
Answer: his son Fuad

Question: How long did British military presence remain in Egypt?
Answer: 1954

Question: In what year did Egypt and Syria Form a sovereign union?
Answer: 1958

Question: What was the sovereign union with Syria known?
Answer: United Arab Republic

Question: How long did the union with Syria last?
Answer: 1961

Question: Who found the claims of Israeli attack baseless?
Answer: Mohamed Fawzi

Question: How many steps did Nasser take in preparation for war?
Answer: three successive steps

Question: Who warned of impending Israeli attack on Syria in May 1967?
Answer: Soviet Union i

Question: On what day did Nasser state "The battle will be a general one and our basic objective will be to destroy Israel?"
Answer: 23 May

Question: How many rich, upper class were in Egypt in 1950s?
Answer: less than half a million

Question: How many middle class were in Egypt in 1950s
Answer: four million

Question: How many lower class were in Egypt in 1950s
Answer: 17 million

Question: What professions made up the buld on middle class under Nasser?
Answer: Doctors, engineers, teachers, lawyers, journalists

Question: What direction did the Egypt economy take in the 1960s?
Answer: went from sluggish to the verge of collapse

Question: When did Nasser die?
Answer: 1970

Question: Who succeeded Nasser?
Answer: Anwar Sadat

Question: Which side of the Cold War was Sadat?
Answer: United States,

Question: What was the October War?
Answer: surprise attack to regain part of the Sinai territory Israel had captured 6 years earlier

Question: What did Sadat exchange for the remainder of Sinai?
Answer: peace with Israel

Question: What was encouraged through Infitah?
Answer: foreign investment

Question: What tools did Infitah use to attract investment?
Answer: reduced taxes and import tariffs

Question: What was largely ignored and upset many of Sadat's polidy?
Answer: elimination of subsidies on basic foodstuffs

Question: What occured in 1977?
Answer: Egyptian Bread Riots.

Question: What group dominated the political scene when Mubarak was in power?
Answer: National Democratic Party,

Question: What laws created in 1990s impacted culture?
Answer: 1993 Syndicates Law, 1995 Press Law, and 1999 Nongovernmental Associations Law

Question: When did parliamentary politics become irrelevant in Egypt?
Answer: late 1990s

Question: What did constitutional changes in 2007 prohibit?
Answer: parties from using religion as a basis for political activity

Question: What was Dr. Ali El Deen Hilal Dessouki's position?
Answer: Media Secretary of the National Democratic Party

Question: What was the long term goal for Egypt?
Answer: democracy

Question: What presidential powers were included in 2007 law changes?
Answer: power to dissolve parliament and end judicial election monitoring

Question: When was interim government instituted?
Answer: 18 January 2014

Question: What was the support by voters for referendum?
Answer: 98.1%

Question: Who was elected President in 2014?
Answer: Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

Question: What group boycotted the elections?
Answer: Muslim Brotherhood and some liberal and secular activist groups

Question: When does most of Egypts rain fall?
Answer: winter months

Question: Where does snow fall in Egypt?
Answer: Sinai's mountains and some of the north coastal cities

Question: When was the last snow fall in Cairo?
Answer: 13 December 2013,

Question: What is the sunniest county in the world?
Answer: Egypt

Question: How many species of plants were recorded in Egypt?
Answer: 2426

Question: How many species of fungi were recorded in Egypt?
Answer: 627

Question: How many species of algae were recorded in Egypt?
Answer: 1483

Question: How many species of animals were recorded in Egypt?
Answer: 15,000

Question: How many species of protazoa were recorded in Egypt?
Answer: 371

Question: What branch of government are the House of Representatives focused on?
Answer: legislation

Question: What percent of votes did el-Sisi get? 
Answer: 96.91%

Question: What tems do House of Representatives serve?
Answer: five-year terms

Question: Who came in second place in election for Egypt president to es-Sisi?
Answer: Hamdeen Sabahi

Question: Who were primary targets of Egypt terrorist attacks?
Answer: Christian Copts, foreign tourists and government officials