Q 01/05

The Sinai Peninsula is the only part of Egypt on which continent, reached by crossing the Suez Canal?

A) Africa

B) Asia

C) Europe

D) Oceania

Answer · why

B) Asia

Asia claims Sinai, making Egypt a country that straddles two continents. The peninsula is a land bridge of about 60,000 square kilometres between the ...

Q 02/05

According to the Bible, what did Moses receive from God on Mount Sinai, known in Arabic as Jabal Musa?

A) The Ten Commandments

B) The Ark of the Covenant

C) The Book of Psalms

D) The Staff of Aaron

Answer · why

A) The Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments are why the peak draws pilgrims: Jabal Musa means 'Mountain of Moses', and many visitors climb through the night to watch sunrise...

Q 03/05

Christian tradition says angels carried what to the top of Mount Catherine, Egypt's highest mountain, in the Sinai?

A) A stone tablet

B) A jewelled cross

C) A martyr's body

D) A bronze bell

Answer · why

C) A martyr's body

A martyr's body, that of Catherine of Alexandria, was by legend set on the summit and later found by a monk. The peak stands taller than its famous ne...

Q 04/05

Saint Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai, lived in since the 6th century, encloses which plant from the Bible?

A) The tree of life

B) Jonah's gourd vine

C) Aaron's almond rod

D) The burning bush

Answer · why

D) The burning bush

The burning bush seen by Moses is claimed to stand inside the walls. Built between 548 and 565, this is the world's oldest continuously inhabited Chri...

Q 05/05

Ancient Egyptians called the Sinai Peninsula the 'Ladders of' which gemstone, mined there from the First Dynasty onward?

A) Turquoise

B) Lapis lazuli

C) Emerald

D) Carnelian

Answer · why

A) Turquoise

Turquoise drew Egyptian expeditions into Sinai for thousands of years, with miners working the deposits a season at a time at sites such as Wadi Magha...