10 questions with answers about History & society, from the free QuizBoards pack – the full theme holds 70. Each category holds five questions of rising difficulty and point value.
100. The young pharaoh whose golden death mask was found in an undisturbed tomb in 1922 and became antiquity's most famous face
Answer: Tutankhamun
200. The jackal-headed god who watched over embalming and led the dead to the next life
Answer: Anubis
300. The female pharaoh who had herself depicted with a royal false beard and built a temple at Deir el-Bahari
Answer: Hatshepsut
400. The pharaoh who, with his queen Nefertiti, abandoned the old gods and introduced worship of a single sun god
Answer: Akhenaten
500. The architect who designed for Pharaoh Djoser the world's first great stone pyramid, the step pyramid at Saqqara
Answer: Imhotep
100. The British nurse who was called the Lady with the Lamp and founded modern nursing during the Crimean War
Answer: Florence Nightingale
200. The peasant girl who led France's army in the 15th century and was burned at the stake
Answer: Joan of Arc
300. The woman who in 1955 refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, and so sparked the civil-rights movement
Answer: Rosa Parks
400. The dowager empress who effectively ruled China in the late 19th century
Answer: Cixi
500. The American astronomer who discovered the link between pulsating stars' period and brightness – the key to measuring distances in the universe
Answer: Henrietta Swan Leavitt