⚡ Egyptian Mythology Trivia Questions & Answers
Ra, Osiris, Anubis and the gods of the Nile. Below are 30 free egyptian mythology trivia questions with answers — part of Mythology trivia on BUZZ. Want a real challenge that adapts to what you know? Play the Mythology quiz — no signup needed to start.
30 Egyptian Mythology trivia questions
Q1. Who is the Egyptian god of the dead and ruler of the underworld?
Answer: Osiris
💡 Osiris was murdered by his brother Seth, who scattered his body. His wife Isis reassembled him, restoring him to life — he became ruler of the dead. He's depicted as a green-skinned mummy wearing a white crown.
Q2. Who is the Egyptian sun god?
Answer: Ra
💡 Ra, also called Ra-Horakhty or Amun-Ra, traveled the sky in a solar barque by day and battled the serpent Apophis at night.
Q3. Embalmers removed the lungs, liver, stomach, and intestines into jars — but which organ stayed put?
Answer: The heart
💡 Egyptians left the heart inside the body because they believed it would testify for or against its owner in the afterlife's judgment.
Q4. Which Egyptian funerary rite let a mummy magically eat, breathe and speak again?
Answer: Opening of the Mouth
💡 Priests touched ritual tools to the mummy's face to reawaken its senses for the afterlife.
Q5. Which Egyptian god has the head of a jackal and guides the dead to the afterlife?
Answer: Anubis
💡 Anubis oversees embalming and funerary rites. He weighs the heart of the dead against the feather of Ma'at (truth). If the heart is lighter, the soul passes to paradise; if heavier, the soul is eaten by Ammit.
Q6. What is the Egyptian 'Book of the Dead'?
Answer: A collection of spells to help the dead reach the afterlife
💡 More accurately the 'Book of Coming Forth by Day', it contains around 192 known spells, selected per scroll based on the deceased's status.
Q7. What is the 'Eye of Horus' in Egyptian mythology?
Answer: A protective symbol of healing and royal power
💡 The wadjet was a widely used amulet. Seth damaged Horus's eye and Thoth healed it; its six parts represented mathematical fractions.
Q8. Egypt's divine scribe had a curved, pen-like beak — what bird inspired this wisdom god's look?
Answer: Ibis
💡 Thoth's ibis beak echoed a scribe's pen dipping into ink — a fitting symbol for the god credited with inventing hieroglyphic writing.
Q9. This desert god turned jealous of his brother and hacked his body apart forever — who was he?
Answer: Set
💡 Despite murdering Osiris, Set later fought on the side of order — riding with Ra's sun boat to battle the chaos serpent Apep.
Q10. An ostrich feather stood for this Egyptian ideal of truth and cosmic balance — what's it called?
Answer: Ma'at
💡 Ma'at's feather became a hieroglyph for 'truth' itself, and her name later described the whole principle of cosmic order.
Q11. This cat-headed Egyptian goddess protected homes from evil spirits, especially women and children.
Answer: Bastet
💡 Bastet's festival at her cult city of Bubastis reportedly drew hundreds of thousands of visitors each year, according to the historian Herodotus.
Q12. Shown as a woman with cow horns cradling a sun disk, which goddess ruled love, music, and joy?
Answer: Hathor
💡 Hathor's favorite instrument was the sistrum, a rattling percussion instrument believed to drive away evil.
Q13. What was the name given to the ancient Egyptian writing system using picture symbols?
Answer: Hieroglyphics
💡 Hieroglyphics remained undeciphered for centuries after ancient Egyptian civilisation ended. The Rosetta Stone, found in 1799, allowed Jean-François Champollion to crack the code in 1822.
Q14. How many gods made up Heliopolis's ruling divine family, the Ennead?
Answer: Nine
💡 Together they were believed to form a tribunal with power to judge both gods and mortals.
Q15. Which Egyptian creator god was believed to have formed himself from primordial waters?
Answer: Atum
💡 His name comes from an Egyptian verb meaning "to finish" or "to complete."
Q16. Egypt's Bennu bird, a phoenix precursor, was usually depicted as which bird?
Answer: A heron
💡 Its name comes from an Egyptian word meaning "to rise," tying it to the sun and creation.
Q17. Thoth appeared as which chattering primate at sunrise, its dawn noise linked to prayer?
Answer: Baboon
💡 Ancient Egyptians mummified millions of baboons and ibises near Hermopolis and Memphis in honor of Thoth.
Q18. A star-covered goddess arches on her toes and fingertips clear across the heavens — who is she?
Answer: Nut
💡 Egyptians believed the sun and moon crossed Nut's body by day, were swallowed at dusk, and were reborn from her each dawn.
Q19. Name the crocodile-headed Egyptian god of the Nile, worshipped for strength and river protection.
Answer: Sobek
💡 Ancient Egyptians sometimes kept live crocodiles in temple pools, adorning them with jewelry as living symbols of Sobek.
Q20. In Egyptian myth, Nut and Geb, split apart by the air god Shu, were also which to each other?
Answer: Siblings
💡 Nut and Geb were both siblings and spouses, and their children included Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys.
Q21. According to Egyptian myth, what does sky goddess Nut do to the sun each evening?
Answer: She swallows it
💡 She's then said to give birth to the sun fresh again at dawn.
Q22. Ammit, devourer of unworthy hearts, combined a crocodile head with which two animals?
Answer: Lion and hippo
💡 These three were chosen as the largest man-eating animals ancient Egyptians knew.
Q23. Which scarab-headed god, pushing the sun like a beetle, was seen as self-created?
Answer: Khepri
💡 Egyptians believed young beetles emerged fully formed from dung balls, seemingly born from nothing.
Q24. How many sons of Horus guarded the mummified organs in canopic jars?
Answer: Four
💡 Their names were Imsety, Hapy, Duamutef, and Qebehsenuef.
Q25. This craftsman god supposedly built the world by thinking it up and speaking it into being — who?
Answer: Ptah
💡 Ptah was patron of sculptors, carpenters, and shipbuilders — his high priest even carried the title 'chief controller of craftsmen.'
Q26. How many hours did Ra's sun barque take to cross the underworld Duat nightly?
Answer: 12 hours
💡 The Duat was divided into twelve regions, one for each hour of that journey.
Q27. In the 'Distant Goddess' myth, the Eye of Ra ran off and became what wild animal?
Answer: A wild lioness
💡 This runaway Eye could be identified with several goddesses, including Hathor and Sekhmet.
Q28. What trick finally stopped Sekhmet's rampage against rebellious humanity?
Answer: Beer dyed red as blood
💡 She drank the blood-red beer until drunk, forgetting her mission and saving humanity.
Q29. Every night, the sun god's boat faced a monster trying to swallow it in the dark — who was it?
Answer: Apep
💡 Priests fought Apep with ritual, not weapons — melting, spitting on, and burning wax models of the serpent in temple ceremonies.
Q30. Which sister goddess of Isis mourned the dead and guarded mummies, while Isis stood for life?
Answer: Nephthys
💡 Isis and Nephthys performed the 'Lamentations,' a call-and-response ritual text meant to symbolically call Osiris's soul back to life.
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