Q 01/05

Nefertiti was the great royal wife of which pharaoh?

A) Akhenaten

B) Ramesses II

C) Tutankhamun

D) Thutmose III

Answer · why

A) Akhenaten

He began his reign under another name and changed it in his fifth year.

Q 02/05

What does the name Nefertiti mean?

A) Beloved of the sun

B) The beautiful one has come

C) Daughter of the Nile

D) Mistress of the Two Lands

Answer · why

B) The beautiful one has come

Some scholars once read the name as a hint she was a foreign princess, but there is no hard evidence.

Q 03/05

To which dynasty of ancient Egypt did Nefertiti belong?

A) The 26th

B) The 4th

C) The 18th

D) The 12th

Answer · why

C) The 18th

She lived from about 1370 to about 1330 BC.

Q 04/05

Which sun-disc deity was at the centre of the religion Nefertiti and her husband promoted?

A) Osiris

B) Amun

C) Ra-Horakhty

D) The Aten

Answer · why

D) The Aten

Atenism was exclusivist and possibly monotheistic, tied directly to the royal household.

Q 05/05

To which new capital city, now called Amarna, did the royal couple move in the fourth year of the reign?

A) Akhetaten

B) Thebes

C) Memphis

D) Pi-Ramesses

Answer · why

A) Akhetaten

Boundary stelae from years 4 and 5 mark its limits.