You will never eat. You will never sleep. You will never stop…watching The Mummy.
We hope. Unless you’re Tom Cruise. And if our hopes are correct, you may be an expert at Mummy movie trivia.
Climb aboard your camels and make sure you’re not on the wrong side of the river for these 20 Mummy trivia quiz questions. The sands of time have already begun to pour against you.
1. What nationality is Beni?
Show AnswerHungarian
Beni Gabor sports a Hungarian name and accent. While being interrogated by Rick O’Connell, Beni also uses the Hungarian phrase “piszkos állat”, translated as “filthy animal”.
Hide2. Of the Ten Plagues of Egypt, how many plagues does Imhotep unleash?
Show AnswerSix
Imhotep unleashes locusts; turns water into blood; causes fiery hail; plunges Cairo into darkness; releases swarms of flies; and last but not least (Jonathan’s favorite), boils and sores.
Hide3. What is the pharaoh’s name Evy reads aloud on the misplaced book she is categorizing before knocking over all the bookshelves?
Show AnswerTuthmosis
Tuthmosis is the traditional Greek rendering of the name Thutmose III, a pharaoh of Egypt’s 18th Dynasty.
Hide4. Who composed the film’s score?
Show AnswerJerry Goldsmith
Goldsmith also scored films such as Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Planet of the Apes, Total Recall, and Mulan.
Hide5. What brand of whisky does Jonathan take from the deceased warden’s satchel?
Show AnswerGlenlivet (twelve years old)
Glenlivet comes from the Glenlivet Distillery, made in the Glenlivet Valley in the Scottish Highlands.
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6. Evy deduces that the Book of Amun-Ra is at Hamunaptra inside the statue of which Egyptian god?
Show Answer7. As O’Connell is being hanged in the Cairo prison, Evy bargains with the warden for his life. She offers him a percentage of whatever is found at Hamunaptra. What percentage do they “agree” to?
Show Answer8. Rick O’Connell’s French Foreign Legion garrison marched across the desert without orders to find Hamunaptra. What does Rick tell Evy they found there?
Show AnswerSand and blood
“You’re warning me? Lady, let me put it this way. My whole damn garrison believed in this so much, that without orders they marched halfway across Libya and into Egypt to find that city. And when we got there all we found was sand and blood. Let me get your bags.”
Hide9. The Mummy and The Mummy Returns were written and directed by Stephen Sommers. What other monster-related film did Sommers write and direct?
Show AnswerVan Helsing (2004)
Van Helsing was an attempt to transpose the successful formula of The Mummy films onto several other Universal monsters. While The Mummy took inspiration from Indiana Jones, Van Helsing took cues from James Bond films.
Hide10. In which ancient Egyptian city does the opening prologue take place?
Show AnswerThebes
The ruins of the city of Thebes now lie within the city of Luxor, Egypt. Though the Pyramids are shown to exist in Thebes during the opening sequence, the Pyramids are actually located in the city of Giza, over 400 miles (664 km) from Luxor.
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11. Which pharaoh is named as having stored his treasure in Hamunaptra?
Show AnswerSeti I
Evy points out the cartouche bearing the royal seal of Seti I on the map that Jonathan gives her. Later, Dr. Chamberlain warns the Americans that they should let the diggers extract the chest bearing the Book of the Dead in case of booby traps, stating “Seti was no fool”.
Hide12. What is Rick O’Connell’s last request before being hanged?
Show Answer“Loosen the knot and let me go.”
Hide13. What is the inscription that Evy reads from the lid of Imhotep’s sarcophagus after Jonathan asks who is buried inside?
Show Answer“He that shall not be named”.
Ancient Egyptian sarcophagi really did have the entombed person’s name carved or painted onto the coffin, along with other inscriptions such as the dead’s list of accomplishments. Imhotep had none of these, as he did something “very naughty”.
Hide14. At the end of the car chase sequence through Cairo, Beni mistranslates Imhotep’s Egyptian words to Evy as “It is time to make you mine forever”. She corrects him immediately, as “forever” is wrong. What is the correct translation?
Show Answer15. Which character perishes after Imhotep sends a giant sandstorm to take down the biplane?
Show AnswerWinston (Captain Winston Havelock)
Winston dies from the impact of the plane crashing to the ground. He and his plane then sink into quicksand.
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16. How long does Ardeth Bey state that the Medjai have kept watch over Hamunaptra?
Show AnswerOver 3,000 years
In real life, the Medjay were a tribe living in Nubia, often paid to be peacekeepers and as a paramilitary police force. By the time of Seti I, the term “medjay” had come to be a generic term for “bodyguard” or “soldier”.
Hide17. In what country was the bulk of The Mummy’s desert scenes actually filmed?
Show AnswerMorocco
The film’s producers deemed Egypt unsuitable for filming due to unstable political conditions. The film’s desert scenes were instead shot in Marrakesh and Erfoud, Morocco.
Hide18. Of the principal cast, which one was actually born in Africa?
Show AnswerArnold Vosloo (Imhotep)
Vosloo is South African, born in Pretoria, Transvaal Province, South Africa.
Hide19. As explained by Evy’s boss, Mr. Terence Bey, why does Imhotep fear cats?
Show AnswerCats are the guardians of the Underworld, therefore Imhotep fears them until he can be fully regenerated
Contrary to the film, cats were not the guardians of the Underworld. This role was chiefly taken by Osiris, the judge of the dead, and Anubis, the guide of the Underworld and god of funerary rites.
Hide20. What are Imhotep’s last words (spoken in Egyptian and translated by Evy)?
Show Answer“Death is only the beginning.”
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