Q 01/05

Anubis is usually shown with the head of which animal?

A) A jackal-like canine

B) A peregrine falcon

C) A sacred ibis

D) A Nile crocodile

Answer · why

A) A jackal-like canine

In the earliest period he was shown entirely as a black canine, not as a man with an animal head.

Q 02/05

Which network aired the boarding-school mystery serial House of Anubis from 2011?

A) Nickelodeon

B) Disney Channel

C) Cartoon Network

D) ABC Family

Answer · why

A) Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon is an American channel, yet it had the serial shot in Liverpool, remaking a Dutch-language series about pupils in a boarding house named a...

Q 03/05

What did Anubis's black colouring stand for in Egyptian belief?

A) Kingship and royal blood

B) Rebirth and fertile soil

C) Storms over the desert

D) The ink of sacred texts

Answer · why

B) Rebirth and fertile soil

Rebirth and fertile soil: black was the colour of the dark silt the Nile left behind each year, and also of a body darkened by its preservation.

Q 04/05

By which period had Osiris replaced Anubis as lord of the underworld?

A) The Middle Kingdom

B) The Old Kingdom

C) The New Kingdom

D) The Ptolemaic period

Answer · why

A) The Middle Kingdom

The Middle Kingdom saw Osiris take over as ruler of the dead, and Anubis, once their chief god, was rewritten as his son and helper.

Q 05/05

In the Weighing of the Heart, the dead person's heart was weighed against what?

A) A gold ring

B) An ostrich feather

C) A grain of wheat

D) A scarab beetle

Answer · why

B) An ostrich feather

An ostrich feather stood for ma'at, justice and cosmic order; a heart that outweighed it was thrown to a waiting monster instead of passing on to the ...