40 Ancient Egypt Trivia Questions for Kids

1. What useful layer did the Nile leave on fields after its yearly floods?

2. In which direction does the Nile flow through Egypt toward the sea?

3. What did an Egyptian farmer lift with a shaduf, a long pole with a bucket?

4. What did the ancient Egyptians mean by the Red Land?

5. Which sea lies north of Egypt, where the Nile reaches the coast?

6. Which animals are shown pulling ploughs in ancient Egyptian farm scenes?

7. Emmer, an important crop for ancient Egyptian bakers, is a type of what?

8. What was stored in an Egyptian granary?

9. What were most ordinary ancient Egyptian houses built from?

10. Which food was a daily staple for both rich and poor Egyptians?

11. Before baking, what did Egyptians use a saddle quern to do?

12. Which valued sweetener did ancient Egyptians obtain from beehives?

13. What containers did ancient Egyptians weave from palm leaves?

14. Which simple tool helped Egyptian bakers remove bits from their flour?

15. Ancient Egyptian workers could receive which of these as payment?

16. What coating helped smooth uneven Egyptian stone walls before artists painted them?

17. Which flowing script helped Egyptian scribes write everyday notes faster than detailed hieroglyphs?

18. What cheap surface could Egyptian pupils reuse for writing practice as an ostracon?

19. Which ingredient gave many ancient Egyptian black inks their dark colour?

20. Which ink colour could an Egyptian scribe use for titles and corrections?

21. Animal figures in hieroglyphs face toward which part of a line of writing?

22. The ancient Egyptian cubit was based on the distance from the elbow to where?

23. What shapes formed the drawing grids Egyptian artists used to plan human figures?

24. What did an ancient Egyptian outflow water clock measure by letting liquid drain from a bowl?

25. What part of the face did ancient Egyptians outline with kohl?

26. What made the surface of an Egyptian metal mirror reflect a face clearly?

27. Which mineral was the main ingredient of Egyptian faience, a shiny glazed material?

28. What colour is lapis lazuli, a stone used in ancient Egyptian jewellery?

29. Which metal did Egyptians use for tools before bronze became common?

30. What did an Egyptian carpenter use an adze to smooth?

31. Egyptian craftspeople used mortise-and-tenon joints mainly to connect pieces of what?

32. In Egyptian art, what was a broad collar worn around?

33. How many squares were on a usual ancient Egyptian senet board?

34. What animal shape formed the coiled board of the ancient Egyptian game mehen?

35. How did a musician make an Egyptian sistrum rattle?

36. What did the loop-topped ankh symbol mean in ancient Egypt?

37. An Egyptian scarab charm was shaped like which small creature?

38. What snake appeared as the uraeus on an Egyptian royal headdress?

39. What shape was the cartouche placed around an Egyptian ruler's name?

40. The title pharaoh came from words that originally meant what?