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Egypt landmarks quiz: guess where 22 photos were taken
22 photographs of Egypt and the map they belong on. Five make a round; the full set is below for study.
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A photo, then the map. Five rounds from Egypt, scored by how far off your pin lands.
Tap the map where you think this is
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The desert plateau on the edge of Cairo, with the only surviving ancient wonder.
Photo: Ricardo Liberato / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A limestone lion with a pharaoh’s head on the Giza plateau.
Photo: Petar Milošević / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A vast temple complex of towering columns by the Nile.
Photo: Diego Delso / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Colossal rock-cut statues of Ramesses II near Lake Nasser.
Photo: Diego Delso / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The city of a hundred gates on the Nile, home of Karnak and Luxor temples.
Photo: Rémih / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A desert valley of salt lakes and four ancient Coptic monasteries.
Photo: Lumen roma / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The medieval heart of Cairo, packed with minarets, madrasas and old gates.
Photo: Kareem Tarek Hussein / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The desert valley where the pharaohs of the New Kingdom, including Tutankhamun, were buried.
Photo: Vyacheslav Argenberg / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The port at the southern end of the Suez Canal, where the canal meets the Red Sea.
Photo: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The world's oldest working Christian monastery, at the foot of Mount Sinai.
Photo: Berthold Werner / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The step pyramid at Saqqara, the oldest large stone building in the world.
Photo: Olaf Tausch / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Saladin's hilltop fortress, crowned by the alabaster Mosque of Muhammad Ali.
Photo: Ahmed Al.Badawy from Cairo, Egypt / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
An island temple of Isis moved stone by stone to escape the Aswan dam waters.
Photo: Olaf Tausch / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The burial valley of the pharaohs' wives, including the painted tomb of Nefertari.
Photo: Diego Delso / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A riverside temple of Amun with an avenue of sphinxes leading to Karnak.
Photo: Ad Meskens / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The mountain where Moses is said to have received the Ten Commandments.
Photo: Gerd Eichmann / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A pyramid whose angle changes halfway up, an early experiment in pyramid building.
Photo: lienyuan lee / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A desert island guarding the mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba, ringed by coral reefs.
Photo: Don Toofee from Dammam, KSA / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The best-preserved temple in Egypt, dedicated to the falcon god Horus.
Photo: Ad Meskens / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The first mosque in Africa, founded in 641 in what became Cairo.
Photo: Kaliper1 / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Alexander's city on the Mediterranean, once home to the Lighthouse and the Great Library.
Photo: ASaber91 / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Cairo's oldest intact mosque, from 879, with a unique spiral minaret.
Photo: User:Berthold Werner / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHow to place them
Top to bottom, Alexandria to Abu Simbel, Egypt's 22 places cover 1,000 km. Pyramids of Giza, Great Sphinx of Giza, Wadi El Natrun, Islamic Cairo and six more can be covered by one 120 km circle in the north-west, which makes ten rounds easier than they look. The stray is Abu Simbel: 230 km to Philae and further to everything else.
Medium is the norm here, nine of 22. Wadi El Natrun, Suez and Cairo Citadel are rated hard; Pyramids of Giza and Great Sphinx of Giza are easy. Luxor Temple is a riverside temple of Amun with an avenue of sphinxes leading to Karnak.
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How many locations does Egypt get?
There are 22, spanning Alexandria to Abu Simbel. Five come up per round.
Which Egypt location is rated hardest?
Wadi El Natrun, Suez and Cairo Citadel, plus two more, carry the hard rating, where 451 km of error costs half the score.
Which Egypt photo forgives the widest miss?
Wadi El Natrun. Its radius is 60 km, the widest here; a pin within it takes the full 5,000.