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

Producers had offered the part to Tom Cruise, Pitt, Damon and Affleck first, then cast Fraser after George of the Jungle's box office impressed them.

Q 02/05

Who plays Evelyn Carnahan, the librarian and aspiring Egyptologist?

A) Rachel Weisz

B) Kate Beckinsale

C) Catherine Zeta-Jones

D) Kate Winslet

Answer · why

A) Rachel Weisz

The studio wanted an American actress; Weisz auditioned several times before winning the part.

Q 03/05

Which South African actor plays the cursed high priest Imhotep?

A) Oded Fehr

B) Omid Djalili

C) Erick Avari

D) Arnold Vosloo

Answer · why

D) Arnold Vosloo

Vosloo insisted on playing it 'absolutely straight', calling the story a skewed Romeo and Juliet from Imhotep's point of view.

Q 04/05

What is the name of the City of the Dead in the 1999 film?

A) Ahm Shere

B) Hamunaptra

C) Karnak

D) Thebes

Answer · why

B) Hamunaptra

Its exteriors were built inside a horseshoe-shaped rock formation, Gara Medouar, in the Moroccan Sahara.

Q 05/05

In what year is the 1999 film's main story set?

A) 1926

B) 1912

C) 1919

D) 1899

Answer · why

A) 1926

The prologue is in 1290 BC Thebes; the modern story opens in Cairo three years after Rick found the city with the French Foreign Legion.