Q 01/05

The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean Sea to which other body of water?

A) The Dead Sea

B) The Red Sea

C) The Persian Gulf

D) The Black Sea

Answer · why

B) The Red Sea

It runs 193.3 km through the Isthmus of Suez from Port Said to Port Tewfik at Suez.

Q 02/05

The canal forms the border between which two continents?

A) Africa and Europe

B) Europe and Asia

C) Africa and Asia

D) Asia and Australia

Answer · why

C) Africa and Asia

It cuts the Sinai Peninsula off from the rest of Egypt.

Q 03/05

Which French diplomat formed the company that built the canal in 1858?

A) Alois Negrelli

B) Ferdinand de Lesseps

C) Gustave Eiffel

D) Linant de Bellefonds

Answer · why

B) Ferdinand de Lesseps

He later tried to repeat the trick at Panama, where malaria, yellow fever and money troubles wrecked the project.

Q 04/05

The canal officially opened in which year?

A) 1888

B) 1869

C) 1875

D) 1902

Answer · why

B) 1869

Construction had begun on the shore of the future Port Said on 25 April 1859.

Q 05/05

Which Egyptian president nationalised the canal in July 1956, triggering the Suez Crisis?

A) Gamal Abdel Nasser

B) Anwar Sadat

C) Hosni Mubarak

D) Muhammad Naguib

Answer · why

A) Gamal Abdel Nasser

He announced it in a speech in Alexandria, citing 120,000 deaths during the canal's construction.