Q 01/05

Ra, one of the most important gods by the Fifth Dynasty, was primarily the god of what?

A) The Sun

B) The Nile

C) The dead

D) War

Answer · why

A) The Sun

He was thought to sail across the sky each day in a solar barque and through the underworld each night.

Q 02/05

Which god of funerary rites and embalming is usually shown as a man with a canine head?

A) Anubis

B) Set

C) Thoth

D) Sobek

Answer · why

A) Anubis

His black colouring symbolised regeneration and the fertile soil of the Nile, not death.

Q 03/05

Which bird's head does Horus, god of kingship and the sky, most often wear?

A) An ibis

B) A vulture

C) A falcon

D) A heron

Answer · why

C) A falcon

The living pharaoh was regarded as a manifestation of Horus.

Q 04/05

Which god of writing, wisdom and the Moon is depicted with the head of an ibis or a baboon?

A) Thoth

B) Ptah

C) Khnum

D) Amun

Answer · why

A) Thoth

The Greeks equated him with Hermes, and his title 'thrice great' became Hermes Trismegistus.

Q 05/05

Which goddess resurrects her slain brother and husband Osiris and protects their heir Horus?

A) Nephthys

B) Hathor

C) Isis

D) Nut

Answer · why

C) Isis

She was usually shown wearing a throne-shaped hieroglyph on her head, and later borrowed Hathor's cow-horn sun disk.