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Question 1

What is the valley of the kings?

Answer 1

A place where some Egyptian pharaohs chose to be buried

Question 2

Where is the valley of the kings?

Answer 2

In Egypt near the ancient city of thebes

Question 3

Why did pharaohs choose to be buried in the valley of the kings?

Answer 3

They hoped that it would be too difficult for robbers to enter their tombs to steal the precious jewels and other treasures placed there for the afterlife

Question 4

How old was Tutankhamun when he died?

Answer 4

18

Question 5

How long between his death and the discovery of his tomb?

Answer 5

More than 3000 years

Question 6

What was Tutankhamun’s coffin made of?

Answer 6

Pure gold

Question 7

List some of the things found in Tutankhamun’s tomb

Answer 7

Toys from his childhood, ships oars, bottles of perfume, beds, his golden throne with a picture of Tutankhamun and his sister, jewelry, a painted wooden casket (small wooden jewelry box), a gold covered statue of Tutankhamun as a warrior god, the mask of Tutankhamun, a panel decorated with a picture of a horse and chariot.

Question 8

Who discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb?

Answer 8

Howard Carter

Question 8

Who discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb?

Answer 8

Howard Carter

Question 9

How long did he search for it?

Answer 9

7 years

Question 10

Why was the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb so important?

Answer 10

Because it was perfectly intact it told researchers an enormous amount about ancient Egypt

Question 11

What kind of information did Tutankhamun’s tomb provide about ancient Egypt?

Answer 11

It’s religion, daily life, death, burial and how pharaohs lived and ruled

Question 12

What were the two theories about Tutankhamun’s death?

Answer 12

That he died of an infected leg wound or that he died of malaria

Question 13

What are the nine provinces?

Answer 13

The western cape, Limpopo, The northern cape, The eastern cape, The free state, The north west province, Gauteng, Kwazulu natal, Mpumalanga

Question 14

What is the capital of the western cape?

Answer 14

Cape town

Question 15

What is the capital of The Northern Cape?

Answer 15

Kimberly

Question 16

What is the capital of The Eastern Cape?

Answer 16

Bishu

Question 17

What is the capital of The Free State?

Answer 17

Bloemfontein

Question 18

What is the capital of The North West Province?

Answer 18

Mafikeng

Question 19

What is the capital of Kwazulu Natal?

Answer 19

Pietermaritzburg

Question 20

What is the capital of Gauteng?

Answer 20

Johannesburg

Question 21

What is the capital of Mpumalanga?

Answer 21

Mbombela

Question 22

What is the capital of Limpopo?

Answer 22

Polokwane

Question 23

What is heritage?

Answer 23

Something that is handed down from the past

Question 24

When do we celebrate heritage day?

Answer 24

24 September

Question 25

What does tangible mean?

Answer 25

Things we can see and touch

Question 26

What does intangible mean?

Answer 26

Things we cannot see and touch

Question 27

Give an example of tangible heritage

Answer 27

Objects, art, heritage sites, people, plants and mountains

Question 28

Give an example of intangible heritage

Answer 28

Family heritage, memories, religion, praise poetry, music, songs, dance and festivals

Question 29

What are paleontologists?

Answer 29

Scientists who study fossils

Question 30

What is a hominid?

Answer 30

A being that walked upright and used tools

Question 31

What was little foot?

Answer 31

A fossil of an early human like creature found by Professor Ronald J. Clarke and his assistants

Question 32

What was mrs. Ples?

Answer 32

The skull of an adult hominid found by Professor Robert Broom

Question 33

Where is Mapungubwe?

Answer 33

In limpopo

Question 34

Why was mapungubwe unusual?

Answer 34

People who lived their made things out of gold hundreds of years ago

Question 35

Name one of the golden objects found at mapungubwe

Answer 35

The golden rhino

Question 36

Where in mapungubwe was the golden rhino found?

Answer 36

Buried in the grave of a king at the top of the hill where all the kings were buried

Question 37

What did the rhino symbolize for the people of mapungubwe?

Answer 37

Leadership

Question 38

Where was Frances baard born?

Answer 38

Kimberly in the northern cape