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Answer
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On what river do the vast majority of Egyptians live?
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The Nile
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What major dam on that river was completed in 1970?
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Aswan High Dam
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What is the name of the canal connecting the Mediterranean and Red seas?
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Suez
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What is the capital of Egypt?
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Cairo
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What is Egypt's second largest city?
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Alexandria
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In what city can the Great Pyramid be found?
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Giza
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What is the name of Egypt's Christian ethnic group?
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Copts
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What ancient Egyptian capital is the namesake of a major city in Tennessee?
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Memphis
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What city is the namesake of a popular Las Vegas casino?
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Luxor
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What famous landmark has a lion's body and a human head?
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The Great Sphinx
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What is the official language of Egypt?
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Arabic
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What Egyptian peninsula was captured by Israel in 1967, and returned in 1982?
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Sinai Peninsula
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What was the site of the largest Arab Spring protests in 2011?
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Tahrir Square
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What long-time President was overthrown as a result of those protests?
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Hosni Mubarak
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What peacemaking President was assassinated in 1981?
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Anwar Sadat
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What symbol-based system of writing was used in ancient Egypt?
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Hieroglyphics
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What stone, discovered in 1799, provided the key to deciphering those symbols?
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Rosetta Stone
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Who was the ancient Egyptian sun god?
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Ra
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What ancient goddess was seen as the ideal mother?
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Isis
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What was the title of the rulers of ancient Egypt?
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Pharaoh
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What female leader was the lover of both Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony?
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Cleopatra
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What paper-like material was invented by the ancient Egyptians?
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Papyrus
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What teenage ruler's tomb was discovered in 1922?
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Tutankhamun
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What ancient Egyptian has been called history's first architect and doctor?
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Imhotep
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What "great" leader led Egypt for 66 years beginning in 1279 B.C.?
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Ramesses II
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-Ptolemaic dynasty, especially the institute at the library of Alexandria, and the scientists, astronomers, and mathematicians who worked there (I know Cleopatra was the last of this dynasty but she was also far less consequential than the first three Ptolemies)
-location of key ancient Greek manuscripts for the New Testament that were preserved for many hundreds of years thanks to the arid climate
-use as breadbasket of ancient Rome
-in medieval times, the Mamluks
-historic leadership within the Islamic world of the Cairo theologians
"What ancient Egyptian capital is the namesake of a major city in Tennessee?"
"What city is the namesake of a popular Las Vegas casino?"
How would I know these as an Egyptian?
As for the Luxor casino, it is quite famous for its pyramid and the extremely powerful light at its top. But I rather agree that a hint about the ancient temple of Thebes would be better.