# 🚢 The Suez Canal Trivia Set

**Used:** 2025-06-13

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## 📌 REGULAR QUESTIONS

### 1. What two bodies of water does the Suez Canal connect?  
**Answer:** The Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea  
**Taglines:**  
- From Europe to Asia, with just enough stress  
- Sea to shining sea, with tolls  
- Water shortcut with a side of politics  
- Shipping shortcut or shipping nightmare?  
- Great for trade, terrible for oversized boats  

### 2. In which country is the Suez Canal located?  
**Answer:** Egypt  
**Taglines:**  
- The pharaohs didn’t see this coming  
- Pyramids to ports real quick  
- Ancient land, modern logistics drama  
- Nile vibes, canal chaos  
- Egypt: where history flows... sometimes  

### 3. What year did the Suez Canal officially open?  
**Answer:** 1869  
**Taglines:**  
- Just in time for industrial imperialism  
- Pre-Suez, everything was the long way  
- 1869: when shipping got a glow-up  
- Year of less sailing, more scheming  
- History flowed in one direction (finally)  

### 4. What famous company managed the Suez Canal during its early years?  
**Answer:** Suez Canal Company  
**Taglines:**  
- Imaginative naming not included  
- Monopoly: colonial edition  
- Company so influential, they named the canal after it  
- Your logistics overlords  
- Corporate canal vibes  

### 5. What event in 2021 blocked the canal for several days?  
**Answer:** The Ever Given ship ran aground  
**Taglines:**  
- One ship, all the memes  
- Stuck ship, stuck economy  
- Ever Given, never forgotten  
- Cargo chaos: deluxe edition  
- The most relatable traffic jam ever  

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## 🧩 FILL-IN-THE-BLANK QUESTIONS

### 1. The Suez Canal is approximately ______ miles long.  
**Answer:** 120  
**Taglines:**  
- Long enough to ruin your week  
- That’s 120 miles of maritime drama  
- Long canal, short tempers  
- Suez: go the distance  
- A watery treadmill for ships  

### 2. The canal was nationalized by Egyptian President ______ in 1956.  
**Answer:** Gamal Abdel Nasser  
**Taglines:**  
- Nasser said “mine now”  
- Plot twist: Egypt takes the wheel  
- Nationalization: because colonialism gets old  
- Bold moves, bold leader  
- He took the keys and drove the canal  

### 3. The 1956 Suez Crisis involved Egypt, the UK, France, and ______.  
**Answer:** Israel  
**Taglines:**  
- When alliances go salty  
- Canal drama turns global  
- Suez Crisis: the original international shipping dispute  
- Boats and bombs  
- Everybody wanted a piece  

### 4. The canal is often referred to as Egypt’s ______ artery.  
**Answer:** Economic  
**Taglines:**  
- Cash flow through canal flow  
- Egypt’s money river  
- Lifeline with lifeboats  
- Artery of ambition  
- Don’t block the bloodstream  

### 5. Ships pay a ______ to pass through the Suez Canal.  
**Answer:** Toll  
**Taglines:**  
- The watery highway tax  
- EZ-Pass for the high seas  
- Pay to float  
- Not your average ferry fare  
- Tolls with tension  

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## 📝 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

### 1. [Difficulty: 1] Which sea lies at the northern end of the Suez Canal?  
A) Arabian Sea  
B) Caspian Sea  
C) Mediterranean Sea ✅  
D) Adriatic Sea  
**Taglines:**  
- Northern end, salty start  
- Med head, Red tail  
- Canal begins where the olives are  
- Not just for cruises and drama  
- Geography: unlocked  

### 2. [Difficulty: 2] Who primarily constructed the Suez Canal?  
A) The British  
B) The French ✅  
C) The Ottomans  
D) The Egyptians  
**Taglines:**  
- Oui oui, dig dig  
- Napoleon’s ghost is pleased  
- France: making Egypt moist since 1869  
- Digging with imperial intent  
- Baguettes and backhoes  

### 3. [Difficulty: 3] What organization currently owns and operates the Suez Canal?  
A) UN  
B) Suez Canal Company  
C) Egyptian Government ✅  
D) World Maritime Union  
**Taglines:**  
- Egypt’s canal, Egypt’s rules  
- National treasure with national headaches  
- One government to rule the traffic  
- Homegrown hydrodynamics  
- Control the canal, control the chaos  

### 4. [Difficulty: 4] What is the average number of ships that transit the Suez Canal daily?  
A) 10  
B) 20  
C) 50  
D) 50+ ✅  
**Taglines:**  
- Maritime rush hour  
- Canal jam, but global  
- So many ships, so little patience  
- Boats in line like it’s Black Friday  
- Next in line: your cargo  

### 5. [Difficulty: 2] The Suez Canal allows ships to bypass the need to sail around what continent?  
A) Asia  
B) Australia  
C) South America  
D) Africa ✅  
**Taglines:**  
- No Cape of Good Hope? No problem  
- Shortcut through the Middle East  
- Saving time, risking memes  
- Around Africa? That’s so 1800s  
- Canal: the original life hack
