Decipherment - Rosetta Stone Quiz

The object referred to as the 'needle' by the presenter is technnically a:

• mausoleum

• pyramid

• obelisk

• stele

'Cleopatra's needle' is located in the city of...

• Berlin

• Paris

• New York

• London

The Rosetta stone was discovered in ...

• 1799

• 1940

• 1820

• 1662

The soldiers who found the stone were in the army of

• Alexander

• Nelson

• Napoleon

• Duke of Wellington

The TWO scholars who were competing to decipher the stone were:

• Jean Racine

• Thomas Young

• Francis Crick

• Jean-Francois Champollion

Royal names in hieroglyphics were enclosed by a

• scaramouche

• cartouche

• scarab

• festoon

The number of languages on the Rosetta stone

• 12

• 5

• 2

• 3

The bottom language on the Rosetta stone is

• Greek

• Latin

• Hebrew

• Coptic

Thomas Young's breakthrough was in working out some of the letters in the cartouche for the following Pharoah/King of Egypt

• Tutankhamoun

• Akenaten

• Rameses

• Ptolemy

'Coptic' refers to

• A type of hieroglyph

• A language still used by the Coptic Christians in Egypt, which descends from Ancient Egyptian.

• One of the pharoahs of Egypt

• Another name for Cleopatra