National Museum of Sudan

National Museum of Sudan - Quiz

1. What is the date range of the Faras Cathedral wall paintings located on the first floor?

A) 9th to 13th century
B) 14th to 16th century
C) 1st to 4th century
D) 5th to 7th century

2. Which scholar contributed to the catalogue of Greek inscriptions found on Nubian funerary epitaphs?

A) Adam Lajtar
B) Jacques Van der Vliet
C) Djehuti-hotep
D) Amanikhabale

3. Which scholar contributed to the catalogue of Coptic inscriptions found on Nubian funerary epitaphs?

A) Sesostris III
B) Adam Lajtar
C) Ramses II
D) Jacques Van der Vliet

4. What is the northernmost location mentioned for the origin of the funerary epitaphs?

A) Basa
B) Debeira
C) Faras
D) Soba

5. What was the primary cause for the relocation of the temples found in the museum garden?

A) The creation of the Lake Nasser reservoir
B) The expansion of the National Museum
C) Damage from the 1964 earthquake
D) Urban development in Khartoum

6. What is the temple of Hatshepsut of Buhen dedicated to?

A) Horus
B) Amun
C) Dedwen
D) Khnum

7. To which god is the temple of Kumma dedicated?

A) Amun
B) Horus
C) Dedwen
D) Khnum

8. Where were the two Meroitic frog statues representing the water-goddess Heket discovered?

A) Basa village
B) Argo Island
C) Faras
D) Soba

9. What stylistic influence is displayed by the unfinished colossal statues from Tabo?

A) Greek
B) Roman
C) Coptic
D) Meroitic

10. How many man-eating lions from Basa village flank the Monumental Alley?

A) Four
B) Six
C) Eight
D) Two

11. Which king is associated with the cartouches found on the man-eating lion at the Monumental Alley?

A) Ramses II
B) Djehuti-hotep
C) Sesostris III
D) Amanikhabale

12. Where is the new generation of Sudanese archeologists primarily trained?

A) Leiden University
B) UNESCO Training Center
C) Warsaw University
D) University of Khartoum

13. What deity is the temple of Semna dedicated to?

A) Horus and Hatshepsut
B) Dedwen and Sesostris III
C) Khnum and Heket
D) Amun and Ramses II

14. In the temple of Hatshepsut of Buhen, how is Hatshepsut portrayed?

A) As a king
B) As a woman
C) As a priestess
D) As a goddess

15. What do the statues of Beset in the museum garden represent?

A) Protector of pregnant women and newborns
B) God of war
C) God of harvests
D) God of Nile cataracts

16. How many areas are the objects of the National Museum of Sudan displayed in?

A) Eight
B) Two
C) Six
D) Four

17. Where is the Main Hall of the museum located?

A) First floor
B) In the garden
C) Outside the building
D) Ground floor

18. Where are the gallery objects located?

A) Monumental Alley
B) Ground floor
C) In the garden
D) First floor

19. What is the height of the Taharqa statue?

A) 6 meters
B) 2 meters
C) 4 meters
D) 8 meters

20. Which material is the statue of Taharqa made of?

A) Marble
B) Granite
C) Limestone
D) Sandstone

21. Who sacked Napata in 591 BCE?

A) The Romans
B) The Greeks
C) The Kushites
D) The Egyptians

22. Who excavated the buried Taharqa statue in 1916?

A) Howard Carter
B) George Reisner
C) Flinders Petrie
D) Jean Leclant

23. Which culture produced the black-topped red burnished pottery found in the museum?

A) Meroitic
B) C-Group
C) A-Group
D) Kerma

24. Where was the Stela of the chief of Teh-khet Amenemhat found?

A) Sai
B) Soleb
C) Naqa
D) Debeira West

25. What is the goddess Beset holding in her left hand?

A) A sword
B) An undulating snake
C) A lotus flower
D) A scepter

26. How many digits does Beset have on her left hand?

A) 4
B) 5
C) 6
D) 3

27. What animal features are on the head of the goddess Beset?

A) Lion
B) Falcon
C) Bull
D) Cat

28. What is the unknown Meroitic king represented as in his statue?

A) A priest
B) An archer
C) A scribe
D) A pharaoh

29. What is the abbreviation for the National Museum of Sudan?

A) SUDNM
B) SNM
C) NATM
D) NMS

30. In what year was the National Museum of Sudan established as a national museum?

A) 1980
B) 2023
C) 1971
D) 1955

31. When was the building housing the National Museum of Sudan constructed?

A) 1971
B) 1960
C) 2025
D) 1955

32. What was the estimated number of objects the museum held before the civil war?

A) 250,000
B) 100,000
C) 50,000
D) 10,000

33. Which group took over the museum on 2 June 2023?

A) United Nations Peacekeepers
B) Rapid Support Forces (RSF)
C) The French Archaeological Unit
D) Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF)

34. Who is the director of the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums (NCAM) who accused the RSF of destroying 90% of the holdings?

A) Ikhlas Abdel Latif
B) The Guardian Correspondent
C) A representative from the Louvre
D) Ghalia Garelnabi

35. Which organization helped the museum create a virtual site for lost artefacts?

A) The Continent Magazine
B) The National Museum of Egypt
C) French Archaeological Unit for Sudanese Antiquities (SFDAS)
D) Sudanese Armed Forces

36. What specific part of the collection did Ghalia Garelnabi accuse the RSF of looting?

A) Textile collections
B) Colonial era weapons
C) Modern art paintings
D) Archaeological gold collection

37. In which city area is the National Museum of Sudan located?

A) Omdurman
B) al-Mugran
C) Bahri
D) Khartoum North

38. What historical culture was represented in the museum collections alongside the X-Group and medieval Makuria?

A) Kerma Culture
B) Greek Civilization
C) Modern Sudanese Culture
D) Roman Empire

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