Egyptian Geography

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  1. Complete the sentence about Cairo with the correct year: Cairo's historic center was awarded World Heritage Site status in ______.
  2. Complete the sentence about Cairo with the correct year: The Cairo Metro, opened in ______, is the oldest metro system in Africa, and ranks amongst the fifteen busiest in the world, with over 1 billio…
  3. Complete the sentence about Shubra El Kheima with the correct year: Shubra El Kheima was a village on the Nile where Mohamed Ali built a palace in its vicinity in ______ as a rural retreat.
  4. Complete the sentence about Shubra El Kheima with the correct year: Shubra El Kheima hosts the Fountain Pavilion of Mohamed Ali Pasha, built in ______ as part of a palace complex that no longer exists…
  5. Complete the sentence about Port Said with the correct year: The city was established in ______ during the building of the Suez Canal.
  6. Complete the sentence about Mansoura, Egypt with the correct year: The Mansoura Air Battle on October 14, ______, occurred during the Yom Kippur War.
  7. Complete the sentence about Mansoura, Egypt with the correct year: The Mansoura National Museum used to be Dar Ibn Lockman, the house where Louis IX was imprisoned in ______ during the Seventh Crusade…
  8. Complete the sentence about Mansoura, Egypt with the correct year: The Mansoura branch of the National Library was inaugurated in ______ as the Mansoura Misr Library.
  9. Complete the sentence about Ismailia with the correct year: Ismailia was founded in ______, during the construction of the Suez Canal, by Khedive Ismail, after whom the city is named.
  10. Complete the sentence about Ismailia with the correct year: Following the Battle of Kafr-el-Dawwar in ______ the British established a base there.
  11. Complete the sentence about Ismailia with the correct year: Ismailia War Cemetery was designed in ______ by Sir Robert Lorimer marking the casualties of the battle.
  12. Complete the sentence about Ismailia with the correct year: In ______, the Battle of Ismailia took place in the city between the Egyptian Armed Forces and the Israel Defense Forces.
  13. Complete the sentence about Zagazig with the correct year: The city is home to Zagazig University, founded in ______, one of the largest universities in Egypt, with colleges in different fields of sci…
  14. Complete the sentence about Damietta with the correct year: Badr al-Jamali started his four year military campaign in Egypt after arriving in Damietta in December ______.
  15. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Taba was located on the Egyptian side of the armistice line in ______.
  16. Complete the sentence about Taba, Egypt with the correct year: Israel reoccupied Taba after the Six-Day War in ______, and a 400-room hotel was subsequently built in the town.
  17. Complete the sentence about Taba, Egypt with the correct year: Following the ______ Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, Egypt and Israel started to negotiate the exact position of the border.
  18. Complete the sentence about Taba, Egypt with the correct year: By February 26, ______, the negotiations were completed and the award was implemented.
  19. Complete the sentence about Taba, Egypt with the correct year: Hosni Mubarak raised the Egyptian flag on the town on 19 March ______.
  20. Complete the sentence about Marsa Matruh with the correct year: Mersa Matruh began as a small fishing town but was important enough to host an Egyptian temple under Ramesses II c. ______ BC.
  21. Complete the sentence about Siwa Oasis with the correct year: The first European to document a visit since Roman times was the English traveller William George Browne, who came in ______ to see the an…
  22. Complete the sentence about Kharga Oasis with the correct year: Browne paused for several days at Kharga, leaving with the rest of the group on 7 June ______.
  23. Complete the sentence about Kharga Oasis with the correct year: In ______, the narrow gauge Western Oasis Lines provided twice-weekly train services.
  24. Complete the sentence about Dakhla Oasis with the correct year: Sir Archibald Edmonstone visited Dakhla oasis in the year ______.
  25. Complete the sentence about Nuweiba with the correct year: Nuweiba Port was built in ______ on the Gulf of Aqaba, and serves as a ferry port as well, facilitating between Jordan and Egypt.
  26. Complete the sentence about Rosetta with the correct year: The Rosetta Stone was discovered in nearby Fort Julien in ______.
  27. Complete the sentence about Rosetta with the correct year: During the Seventh Crusade, Louis IX of France briefly occupied the town in ______.
  28. Complete the sentence about Rosetta with the correct year: Following the destruction of Damietta during the crusade, Al-Zahir Baybars built it again in ______.
  29. Complete the sentence about Abu Simbel with the correct year: The complex was relocated in its entirety in ______ to higher ground to avoid it being submerged by Lake Nasser, the Aswan Dam reservoir.
  30. Complete the sentence about Abu Simbel with the correct year: The temple remained unknown to Europeans until March ______, when the Swiss researcher Johann Ludwig Burckhardt found the small temple and…
  31. Complete the sentence about Abu Simbel with the correct year: In ______, British politician and explorer William John Bankes, accompanied only by servants and guides, travelled from Cairo up the Nile…
  32. Complete the sentence about Valley of the Kings with the correct year: In ______, it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site alongside the rest of the Theban Necropolis.
  33. Complete the sentence about Valley of the Queens with the correct year: Along with the Valley of the Kings and nearby Thebes, the Valley of the Queens was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List i…
  34. Complete the sentence about Deir el-Bahari with the correct year: By the Third Intermediate Period, Deir el-Bahari became a burial ground for priests and a hiding place for royal mummies such as those…
  35. Complete the sentence about Giza pyramid complex with the correct year: Several were found in a well in the floor of the temple by Mariette in ______.
  36. Complete the sentence about Great Sphinx of Giza with the correct year: Contrary to a popular myth, the nose was not destroyed by cannonfire from Napoleon's troops during his ______ Egyptian campaign.
  37. Complete the sentence about Great Sphinx of Giza with the correct year: When the stele was re-excavated in ______, the lines of text referring to Khaf had flaked off and were destroyed.
  38. Complete the sentence about Pyramid of Khafre with the correct year: Arab historian Ibn Abd al-Salam recorded that the pyramid was opened in ______.
  39. Complete the sentence about Pyramid of Khafre with the correct year: The pyramid was first explored in modern times by Giovanni Belzoni on March 2, ______, when the original entrance was found on the…
  40. Complete the sentence about Pyramid of Khafre with the correct year: The first complete exploration was conducted by John Perring in ______.
  41. Complete the sentence about Pyramid of Khafre with the correct year: In ______, American mountaineer Elbridge Rand Herron fell from the pyramid while climbing its outside surface and was killed instan…
  42. Complete the sentence about Nile with the correct year: A monument was erected nearby in ______ by Burkhart Waldecker close to the town of Rutovu, near Mount Kikizi.
  43. Complete the sentence about Lake Nasser with the correct year: The construction of the Aswan High Dam began in ______ at the behest of Lake Nasser's namesake and the second president of Egypt, Gamal A…
  44. Complete the sentence about Aswan High Dam with the correct year: Like the Aswan Low Dam, which had been completed in ______, the High Dam has changed the economy and culture of Egypt.
  45. Complete the sentence about Aswan High Dam with the correct year: The British began construction of the first dam across the Nile in ______.
  46. Complete the sentence about Suez Canal with the correct year: In ______, French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps formed the Compagnie de Suez for the express purpose of building the canal.
  47. Complete the sentence about Suez Canal with the correct year: The Suez Canal Authority officially opened the new side channel in ______.
  48. Complete the sentence about Sinai Peninsula with the correct year: Israel, along with France and the United Kingdom, invaded and occupied Sinai during the Suez Crisis of ______.
  49. Complete the sentence about Sinai Peninsula with the correct year: Israel invaded the Sinai at the start of the Six-Day War of ______ due to Egyptian forces massing to invade Israel.
  50. Complete the sentence about Sinai Peninsula with the correct year: On 6 October ______, Egypt launched the Yom Kippur War, seizing most of the east bank of the Suez Canal while Israel seized even more…
  51. Complete the sentence about Mount Sinai with the correct year: The summit has a Greek Orthodox chapel, constructed in ______ on the ruins of a 16th-century church, that is not open to the public.
  52. Complete the sentence about Mediterranean Sea with the correct year: Around ______ BC the eastern Mediterranean was greatly affected by the Bronze Age Collapse, which resulted in the destruction of ma…
  53. Complete the sentence about Qattara Depression with the correct year: The elevation of the depression was first measured in ______ by an officer of the British Army leading a light car patrol into the…
  54. Complete the sentence about Qattara Depression with the correct year: Most notable was his ______ journey during which he crossed the depression east to west and visited the oases of Qara and Siwa.
  55. Complete the sentence about Wadi El Rayan with the correct year: In the northwest is Wadi El Hitan, a protectorate containing fossils of extinct whales including Tutcetus rayanensis, named after this…
  56. Complete the sentence about White Desert National Park with the correct year: Sahara el Beyda, the White Desert Protected Area, is a national park in Egypt, first established as a protected area in __…
  57. Complete the sentence about Gulf of Aqaba with the correct year: Movement on one of these faults caused the ______ Gulf of Aqaba earthquake.
  58. Complete the sentence about Great Bitter Lake with the correct year: Before the canal was built in ______, the Great Bitter Lake was a dry salt valley or basin.
  59. Complete the sentence about Great Bitter Lake with the correct year: When the Suez Canal was closed for eight years, beginning during the Six-Day War in ______, the salinity of the lake increased subs…
  60. Complete the sentence about Great Bitter Lake with the correct year: Following the opening of the Suez Canal in ______, the area has witnessed massive marine migrations from the Red Sea, through the c…
  61. Complete the sentence about Zamalek with the correct year: The palace was built and first used for guests attending the ______ opening of the Suez Canal.
  62. Complete the sentence about Zamalek with the correct year: In ______ the Gezira Sporting Club was built in the southern region of the island.
  63. Complete the sentence about Maadi with the correct year: Maadi traces its modern history to ______, when the railway between Cairo to the north and Helwan to the south was built.
  64. Complete the sentence about Maadi with the correct year: The town planning was done in ______ by a Canadian retired officer, Captain Alexander J.
  65. Complete the sentence about Maadi with the correct year: The Divisional Cavalry Regiment disembarked on 14 February ______ and entrained for the New Zealand base camp at Maadi.
  66. Complete the sentence about Garden City, Cairo with the correct year: Garden City was a city strictly planned by private investors wishing to escape the period of national construction that took place…
  67. Complete the sentence about Garden City, Cairo with the correct year: After ______, there was a movement in direct response to the period of nationalist construction that took place throughout Egypt.
  68. Complete the sentence about Tahrir Square with the correct year: The ______ Egyptian revolution and the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak occurred at the Tahrir Square.
  69. Complete the sentence about Tahrir Square with the correct year: The statue-less pedestal erected by King Farouk was eventually removed in ______ during the construction of the Sadat metro station und…
  70. Complete the sentence with the correct year: As of May ______, 14 ministries and government entities have been relocated there.
  71. Complete the sentence about New Administrative Capital with the correct year: Plans for the new capital were announced by the then-Egyptian housing minister Mostafa Madbouly at the Egypt Economic Deve…
  72. Complete the sentence about Pharos of Alexandria with the correct year: In ______, a team of French archaeologists dived in the water of Alexandria's Eastern Harbour and discovered some remains of the…
  73. Complete the sentence about Montaza Palace with the correct year: The larger El-Haramlek Palace and royal gardens were added to the Montaza Palace grounds, being built by King Fuad I in ______, as a s…
  74. Complete the sentence about Egyptian cobra with the correct year: Naja haje was first described in Europe by Swedish zoologist Carl Linnaeus in ______.
  75. Complete the sentence about Egyptian cobra with the correct year: A ______ study found that the Arabian cobra constitutes a separate species, Naja arabica, whereas the subspecies legionis was synonymi…
  76. Complete the sentence about Egyptian cobra with the correct year: The Egyptian cobra garnered increased attention in Canada in late ______, when a pet cobra escaped and forced the evacuation of a hous…
  77. Complete the sentence about Sacred ibis with the correct year: Georges Cuvier named it Ibis religiosus in his Le Règne Animal of ______.
  78. Which place completes this sentence about Shubra El Kheima? Shubra El Kheima station serves the northern terminus of Line 2 of the ______ Metro.
  79. Which place completes this sentence about Port Said? The city was established in 1859 during the building of the ______ Canal.
  80. Which place completes this sentence about El-Mahalla El-Kubra? El Mahalla El Kubra was designated as the capital of Gharbia Governorate in 1320 by Ibn Qalawun, before it was relocated to ______ in 183…
  81. Which place completes this sentence about Ismailia? Situated on the west bank of the ______ Canal, it is the capital of the Ismailia Governorate.
  82. Which place completes this sentence about Ismailia? Ismailia was founded in 1863, during the construction of the ______ Canal, by Khedive Ismail, after whom the city is named.
  83. Which place completes this sentence about Ismailia? The head office of the ______ Canal Authority is located in Ismailia at the shore of Lake Timsah.
  84. Which place completes this sentence about Aswan? Around 330, the legion stationed here received a bishop from ______; this later became the Coptic Diocese of Syene.
  85. Which place completes this sentence about Aswan? The voyage from Aswan to ______ usually took 21 to 28 days in favorable weather.
  86. Which place completes this sentence about Qena? Tourists traveling between ______ and the Red Sea will assuredly pass through this city since there is only one good road connection.
  87. Which place completes this sentence about Taba, Egypt? During the ______ Crisis in 1956, it was briefly occupied by Israel but restored to Egypt when the Israelis retreated in 1957.
  88. Which place completes this sentence about Bahariya Oasis? Located in ______ Governorate, the main economic sectors are agriculture, iron ore mining, and tourism.
  89. Which place completes this sentence about Rosetta? Following the destruction of ______ during the crusade, Al-Zahir Baybars built it again in 1250.
  90. Which place completes this sentence about Kom Ombo? Ombos was the first city below ______ at which any remarkable remains of antiquity occur.
  91. Which place completes this sentence about Abu Simbel? The complex was relocated in its entirety in 1968 to higher ground to avoid it being submerged by Lake Nasser, the ______ Dam reservoir.
  92. Which place completes this sentence about Abu Simbel? In 1815, British politician and explorer William John Bankes, accompanied only by servants and guides, travelled from ______ up the Nile as far as…
  93. Which place completes this sentence about Valley of the Kings? The sedimentary rock was originally deposited between 35 and 56 million years ago during a time when the Mediterranean Sea sometimes exte…
  94. Which place completes this sentence about Saqqara? Consequently, they are less well preserved than the world-famous pyramids built by the Fourth Dynasty kings at ______.
  95. Which place completes this sentence about Dahshur? Ultimately their breadth of experience would allow them to build the Great Pyramid of ______; the last of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World stil…
  96. Which place completes this sentence about Great Pyramid of Giza? The Great Pyramid of ______ is the largest of the Egyptian pyramids and the most famous landmark of the Giza pyramid complex in Giza, E…
  97. Which place completes this sentence about Great Sphinx of Giza? Some time around the First Intermediate Period, the ______ Necropolis was abandoned, and drifting sand eventually buried the Sphinx up t…
  98. Which place completes this sentence about Red Pyramid? The Red Pyramid, also called the North Pyramid, is the largest of the pyramids located at the Dahshur necropolis in ______, Egypt.
  99. Which place completes this sentence about Lake Nasser? The construction of the ______ High Dam began in 1960 at the behest of Lake Nasser's namesake and the second president of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nass…
  100. Which place completes this sentence about Lake Nasser? Finished in 1970, the ______ High Dam across the Nile was built to replace the insufficient Aswan Low Dam built in 1902.

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