Q 01/05

Who plays adventurer Rick O'Connell in the 1999 film The Mummy?

A) Ben Affleck

B) Matt Damon

C) Brendan Fraser

D) Brad Pitt

Answer · why

C) Brendan Fraser

Brendan Fraser. The director had written Rick as 'a young swashbuckling Errol Flynn kind of hero', and George of the Jungle had just made Fraser a sta...

Q 02/05

Who plays librarian Evelyn Carnahan in the 1999 film The Mummy?

A) Rachel Weisz

B) Kate Beckinsale

C) Catherine Zeta-Jones

D) Kate Winslet

Answer · why

A) Rachel Weisz

Rachel Weisz. The studio kept putting forward American actresses, and Weisz had to audition several times before the part was hers.

Q 03/05

Which actor plays the cursed high priest Imhotep in the 1999 film The Mummy?

A) Oded Fehr

B) Omid Djalili

C) Erick Avari

D) Arnold Vosloo

Answer · why

D) Arnold Vosloo

Arnold Vosloo. He told the director the film would be stronger if the Mummy were played straight, as a man in love, and he had the part after that sin...

Q 04/05

In the 1999 film The Mummy, what is the City of the Dead called?

A) Ahm Shere

B) Hamunaptra

C) Karnak

D) Thebes

Answer · why

B) Hamunaptra

Hamunaptra. Its ruins were raised inside a natural horseshoe of rock in the Sahara, and the crew had to lay a concrete ramp through a breach in the ol...

Q 05/05

In the 1999 film The Mummy, Rick first finds the lost city as what?

A) Legionnaire

B) Smuggler

C) Pilot

D) Archaeologist

Answer · why

A) Legionnaire

Legionnaire. His French Foreign Legion garrison marched across Libya into Egypt without orders to find the city, and three years later, in 1926, he ag...

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