The Mummy Trivia
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49 free The Mummy trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
42 free The Mummy trivia questions with answers. This Mummy trivia quiz digs into every era of the franchise: Boris Karloff's 1932 original and its eight-hour makeup job, Hammer's 1959 Christopher Lee version, Stephen Sommers' 1999 adventure with Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz and Arnold Vosloo, The Mummy Returns with The Rock as the Scorpion King, the China-set Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, and the 2017 Tom Cruise reboot that sank the Dark Universe. It also covers the making of the 1999 film — the Morocco shoot, the near-fatal hanging scene, the stars who turned down Rick O'Connell — and finishes with a handful of questions on how the ancient Egyptians actually made mummies. Early questions suit anyone who has watched the 1999 film on cable a dozen times; later ones reward fans who know the Book of Amun-Ra from the Book of the Dead, who Evelyn was named after, and what natron is for. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia entries before publishing.
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Q 01Who plays adventurer Rick O'Connell in the 1999 film The Mummy?
Brendan Fraser
Brendan Fraser. The director had written Rick as 'a young swashbuckling Errol Flynn kind of hero', and George of the Jungle had just made Fraser a star with younger audiences.
Q 02Who plays librarian Evelyn Carnahan in the 1999 film The Mummy?
Rachel Weisz
Rachel Weisz. The studio kept putting forward American actresses, and Weisz had to audition several times before the part was hers.
Q 03Which actor plays the cursed high priest Imhotep in the 1999 film The Mummy?
Arnold Vosloo
Arnold Vosloo. He told the director the film would be stronger if the Mummy were played straight, as a man in love, and he had the part after that single meeting.
Q 04In the 1999 film The Mummy, what is the City of the Dead called?
Hamunaptra
Hamunaptra. Its ruins were raised inside a natural horseshoe of rock in the Sahara, and the crew had to lay a concrete ramp through a breach in the old wall across its mouth just to get in.
Q 05In the 1999 film The Mummy, Rick first finds the lost city as what?
Legionnaire
Legionnaire. His French Foreign Legion garrison marched across Libya into Egypt without orders to find the city, and three years later, in 1926, he agrees to lead the way back.
Q 06In the prologue of the 1999 film The Mummy, how is Imhotep punished?
Buried alive with flesh-eating scarabs
Buried alive with flesh-eating scarabs. The curse was thought so terrible that it had never been used before; his priests, who were merely mummified alive, got off lightly.
Q 07In the 1999 film The Mummy, which text does Evelyn read aloud, accidentally waking Imhotep?
The Book of the Dead
The Book of the Dead. It was not even the book she came for: Evelyn wanted the golden Book of Amun-Ra, and 'borrowed' this black one from the rival camp while its finders slept.
Q 08In the 1999 film The Mummy, who is Rick's cowardly old comrade who guides the Americans and later serves Imhotep?
Beni Gabor
Beni Gabor. Imhotep spares him on hearing him pray in Hebrew and pays him in gold, and greed finishes him: he is still looting the treasure room when the city seals him inside.
Q 09In the 1999 film The Mummy, which desert warriors, descended from Pharaoh's bodyguards, keep watch over Imhotep's tomb?
The Medjai
The Medjai. Their leader first rides against the treasure hunters to drive them off the site, then ends up fighting beside them once the creature is loose.
Q 10In the 1999 film The Mummy, what does Imhotep unleash on Cairo?
The biblical Plagues of Egypt
The biblical Plagues of Egypt. While they torment the city he hunts down the men who opened the cursed chest, growing more whole with every one he kills.
Q 11Where was the 1999 film The Mummy mainly shot, standing in for Egypt?
Morocco
Morocco. Egypt itself was judged too politically risky for the shoot, and Marrakesh, far less modern than Cairo, was easier to dress as a city of the 1920s.
Q 12During which scene of the 1999 film The Mummy did its star black out for real?
The hanging
The hanging. By his own account the rope was pulled tighter for a second take and he blacked out, coming round on the ground with a medic saying his name.
Q 13In the 1999 film The Mummy, what does Jonathan steal from Rick that sets the whole expedition in motion?
A puzzle box holding a map
Q 21In The Mummy Returns, the villainess Meela Nais is the reincarnation of which ancient Egyptian?
Anck-su-namun
Anck-su-namun. Imhotep's lost love comes back in a modern body, then fails him: when he begs her to pull him from the pit, as Evelyn has just done for Rick, she runs.
Q 22In The Mummy Returns, how do the O'Connells cross the desert to rescue their son?
Dirigible
Dirigible. Its pilot Izzy declares that aeroplanes are a thing of the past, not long before Imhotep's magic brings his airship down in the jungle of the oasis.
Q 23In The Scorpion King, the hero Mathayus is one of the last survivors of which ancient people?
Akkadians
Akkadians. The film makes them a dying people of assassins for hire: Mathayus and two companions are paid to kill a warlord's sorcerer, a job that goes wrong when they are betrayed.
A puzzle box holding a map. Rick had found it in the lost city itself, and he is sitting in a Cairo prison when Jonathan and his sister come to ask him where that was.
Q 14Which composer scored the 1999 film The Mummy?
Jerry Goldsmith
Jerry Goldsmith. He wrote a single love theme and gave it to both couples: the Mummy and his lost love as well as Rick and Evelyn.
Q 15The 1999 film The Mummy cost about $80 million; roughly how much did it gross worldwide?
$420 million
$420 million, more than five times its cost. The studio's boss rang the director early on the morning after it opened, and Universal set a sequel in motion straight away.
Q 16Which horror director was once lined up to make a low-budget, modern-day version of The Mummy that Universal abandoned?
George A. Romero
George A. Romero. The studio then wanted a cheap present-day horror film with an unstoppable monster, and he was one of several directors who came and went before it changed its mind.
Q 17Who plays Evelyn's roguish brother Jonathan in the 1999 film The Mummy?
John Hannah
John Hannah. His agent had sold him to the studio as a hilarious comic actor; when the director met him, Hannah said he had never been funny in his life.
Q 18Stephen Sommers sold Universal his 1999 version of The Mummy as an adventure in the vein of which screen hero?
Indiana Jones
Indiana Jones. The studio had first wanted a low-budget horror film set in the present; Sommers pitched a 1920s romantic adventure with the mummy as the creature giving the hero a hard time.
Q 19Which wrestler made his film debut as the Scorpion King in The Mummy Returns?
Dwayne Johnson
Dwayne Johnson. Billed as The Rock, he has only a brief part in the film, yet it was enough to win him a spin-off of his own a year later.
Q 20In The Mummy Returns, which relic does young Alex O'Connell put on, starting a seven-day countdown?
The Bracelet of Anubis
The Bracelet of Anubis. It shows Alex the way to a lost oasis in visions, but unless he is inside its pyramid before sunrise on the seventh day, it will take his life.
Q 24The Scorpion King's star set a Guinness record for a first leading role with roughly what fee?
$5.5 million
$5.5 million. Guinness logged it as the most ever paid to an actor in his first starring part, and it came a year after his few minutes on screen in The Mummy Returns.
Q 25The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor moved the series to which country?
China
China. Its mummy is a tyrant emperor cursed into clay along with his whole army, so the walking dead this time are terracotta warriors.
Q 26Who took over the role of Evelyn in Tomb of the Dragon Emperor?
Maria Bello
Maria Bello. The film winks at the change of face: asked at a reading whether the heroine of her adventure novels is based on her, the new Evelyn says she is 'a completely different person'.
Q 27Who stars as Sergeant Nick Morton in the 2017 reboot of The Mummy?
Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise. For the plane-crash scene the cast were filmed in real weightlessness aboard a 'vomit comet' aircraft, 64 times over, while crew members were sick around them.
Q 28What is the name of the Egyptian princess played by Sofia Boutella in the 2017 film The Mummy?
Ahmanet
Ahmanet. Raised as sole heir until her father had a son, she made a pact with the god Set, murdered her family and was mummified alive for it.
Q 29The 2017 film The Mummy was meant to launch which shared cinematic franchise?
The Dark Universe
The Dark Universe. More monster films had been announced with stars attached, but this opener lost the studio tens of millions and the shared series was dropped after one entry.
Q 30In the 2017 film The Mummy, Russell Crowe plays which doctor of classic fiction?
Dr. Jekyll
Dr. Jekyll, whose other self, Eddie Hyde, breaks loose mid-film. He welcomes the hero to Prodigium, a secret society that hunts monsters, but the film lost the studio tens of millions and the planned series stopped there.