Question: What direction does the canal north of Bitter lakes flow?
Answer: north in winter and south in summer

Question: What basic part of civilization has been characterized by achievement and challenges?
Answer: Drinking water supply and sanitation

Question: From 1990 to 2010 what was improvement in piped water supply to urban areas?
Answer: 89% to 100%

Question: From 1990 to 2010 what was improvement in piped water supply to rural areas?
Answer: 39% to 93%

Question: Currently how much of Egypt's population is connected to sanitary sewers?
Answer: 99%

Question: Because of low sanitation coverage 17,000 Egyptian children to die each year from what condition?
Answer: diarrhoea

Question: Relative to other countries of world how do Egypts's water tariffs compare?
Answer: among the lowest in the world

Question: Due to low waer tariffs, what is required to maintain water treatment operation?
Answer: government subsidies

Question: What is the largest ethnic group in Egypt?
Answer: Ethnic Egyptians

Question: What are the minorities that live in eastern deserts of Egypt?
Answer: Abazas, Turks, Greeks, Bedouin Arab tribes

Question: Where are Dom clans mostly gathered?
Answer: Nile Delta and Faiyum

Question: Approximately how many rufugees and asylum seekers are in Egypt?
Answer: between 500,000 and 3 million

Question: What cities house several important Jewish archaelogical sites?
Answer: Cairo, Alexandria and other cities

Question: How may Palestinian refugees are in Egypt?
Answer: 70,000

Question: How many recent Iraqi refugees are in Egypt?
Answer: 150,000

Question: What is official language of Egypt?
Answer: Modern Standard Arabic

Question: What are main laguages of immigrants?
Answer: Greek, Armenian and Italian

Question: In the 19th century, what city of Egypt was a large community of Italian Egyptians?
Answer: Alexandria

Question: What are the three most spoken languages in Egypt?
Answer: Egyptian Arabic (68%), Sa'idi Arabic (29%), Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic (1.6%)

Question: Prior to 7th century, what was primary religion of Egypt?
Answer: Christian

Question: What became the main source of law with increasing Islamic influence in Egypt?
Answer: Sharia

Question: Under what leader did Islam become official religion of Egypt?
Answer: Anwar Sadat

Question: What church do 90% of Christian minority in Egypt belong?
Answer: Coptic Orthodox Church

Question: Where are other Non-native Christian communities found?
Answer: urban regions of Cairo and Alexandria

Question: What do Syro-Lebanese belong to?
Answer: Greek Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Maronite Catholic denominations

Question: What 3 religions does Egypt recognise?
Answer: Islam, Christianity, and Judaism

Question: What recognition do Baha'i and Hmadi community get from Egyptian government?
Answer: are not recognised by the state

Question: Until what year did some minorities need to lie about religion or not get mandatory state issued ID?
Answer: 2008

Question: What color was frequently used in Egyptian designs?
Answer: Egyptian blue

Question: What art required adherence to rigid code?
Answer: wall paintings done in the service of the Pharaohs

Question: What is the main performing arts venue in Egyptian capital?
Answer: The Cairo Opera House

Question: Who designed the Pyramid of Djoser?
Answer: Imhotep

Question: Who was the first to develop literature?
Answer: Egyptians

Question: What syles did writers in Arabic literature experiment with first?
Answer: modern styles

Question: What was the first modern Egyptian novel?
Answer: Zaynab

Question: When was Munammad Huayn Haykal's first modern novel published?
Answer: 1913

Question: Who financed Studio Misr?
Answer: Talaat Harb

Question: In more that 100 years how many films have been produced in Egypt?
Answer: 4000 films

Question: In what year was Studio Misr founded?
Answer: 1936

Question: What share of Arab productions have come from Egypt?
Answer: three quarters

Question: What elements mix for Egyptian music?
Answer: indigenous, Mediterranean, African and Western

Question: Who is credited with invention of music by ancient Egyptians?
Answer: Hathor

Question: What artist are considered the golden age of Egyptian music?
Answer: Abdu El Hamouli, Almaz and Mahmoud Osman, who influenced the later work of Sayed Darwish, Umm Kulthum, Mohammed Abdel Wahab and Abdel Halim Hafez

Question: What is more contemporary Egyptian Pop Singer?
Answer: Amr Diab and Mohamed Mounir

Question: What is the oldest era in Egypt?
Answer: prehistoric

Question: How many museums are found in Egypt?
Answer: at least 60

Question: What are some examples of Ages in Egypt?
Answer: Pharonic, Roman, Greek, Islamic

Question: What is koshari?
Answer: mixture of rice, lentils, and macaroni

Question: What can be added to koshari?
Answer: Fried onions

Question: What is a polular green soup of Egypt?
Answer: mulukhiyya

Question: What beans are used to make falafel?
Answer: Fava bean

Question: What is the most popular sport in Egypt?
Answer: Football

Question: What is one of the toughest derbies in the world, run in Egypt?
Answer: The Cairo Derby

Question: In terms of international trophies, whos is the most successful club?
Answer: Al Ahly

Question: What was the last international competition Egypt hosted?
Answer: 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup

Question: Who holds Guiness record for Deepest salt water scuba dive?
Answer: Ahmed Gabr

Question: How deep did Gabr dive?
Answer: 1,066 feet down

Question: In what body of water did Gabr dive?
Answer: Red Sea

Question: What millennium did Mosaic start?
Answer: the 3rd millennium BC

Question: What kind of mosaic were made in Tiryns?
Answer: Pebble mosaics

Question: Who besides the Romans did the Jewish people get influenced by?
Answer: Byzantine

Question: When did mosaic fall out of fashion?
Answer: the Renaissance

Question: The Norman kingdomwas in what italian city state?
Answer: Sicily

Question: The pebble mosaics found at Tiyns are from what age?
Answer: Bronze age

Question: The Beauty of Durres is in what country?
Answer: Albania

Question: The famous artists Sosus was from what area?
Answer: Pergamon

Question: When was the Greek figure style mostly formed?
Answer: the 3rd century BC

Question: When was the famous mosaic "The Beauty of Durres" created?
Answer: the 4th-century BC

Question: What common artform is far more prestigious than mosaic?
Answer: paintings

Question: Which culture adapted the use of mosaics for large ground coverings in their villas?
Answer: the Romans

Question: Most names of Roman mosaic workers are what nationality?
Answer: Greek

Question: Often regular everyday craftsman were most likely what?
Answer: slaves

Question: Carthage and Tunisia are in what general area?
Answer: North Africa

Question: What type of mosaic uses small tesserae?
Answer: opus vermiculatum

Question: What were small panel mosaics known as?
Answer: emblemata

Question: What was the name of the mosaic technique that used larger tesserae?
Answer: opus tessellatum

Question: What was the benefit of using small pieces to create a mosaic?
Answer: very fine detail

Question: Why were black and white pieces used in most italian mosaics?
Answer: cheaper than fully coloured work

Question: Which caesar hired builders to construct the Domus Aurea?
Answer: Nero

Question: When did figure wall mosaics become the highest form of artistic expression?
Answer: the Christian era

Question: The church of Santa Costanza is in what country?
Answer: Rome

Question: When was the Domus Aurea constructed?
Answer: 64 AD

Question: The imperial family of Rome used the church of Santa Costanza as what?
Answer: a mausoleum

Question: In what area of Italy is the largest collection of mosaics in the world?
Answer: Sicily

Question: Who most likely lived in the large villa rustica?
Answer: Emperor Maximian

Question: What caused the mosaics at the villa rustica to be protected for centuries? 
Answer: a landslide