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50 free The Mummy trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
42 free The Mummy trivia questions with answers. This Mummy trivia quiz digs into every era of the franchise: Boris Karloff's 1932 original and its eight-hour makeup job, Hammer's 1959 Christopher Lee version, Stephen Sommers' 1999 adventure with Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz and Arnold Vosloo, The Mummy Returns with The Rock as the Scorpion King, the China-set Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, and the 2017 Tom Cruise reboot that sank the Dark Universe. It also covers the making of the 1999 film — the Morocco shoot, the near-fatal hanging scene, the stars who turned down Rick O'Connell — and finishes with a handful of questions on how the ancient Egyptians actually made mummies. Early questions suit anyone who has watched the 1999 film on cable a dozen times; later ones reward fans who know the Book of Amun-Ra from the Book of the Dead, who Evelyn was named after, and what natron is for. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia entries before publishing.
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Q 01Who plays adventurer Rick O'Connell in the 1999 film The Mummy?
Brendan Fraser
Producers had offered the part to Tom Cruise, Pitt, Damon and Affleck first, then cast Fraser after George of the Jungle's box office impressed them.
Q 02Who plays Evelyn Carnahan, the librarian and aspiring Egyptologist?
Rachel Weisz
The studio wanted an American actress; Weisz auditioned several times before winning the part.
Q 03Which South African actor plays the cursed high priest Imhotep?
Arnold Vosloo
Vosloo insisted on playing it 'absolutely straight', calling the story a skewed Romeo and Juliet from Imhotep's point of view.
Q 04What is the name of the City of the Dead in the 1999 film?
Hamunaptra
Its exteriors were built inside a horseshoe-shaped rock formation, Gara Medouar, in the Moroccan Sahara.
Q 05In what year is the 1999 film's main story set?
1926
The prologue is in 1290 BC Thebes; the modern story opens in Cairo three years after Rick found the city with the French Foreign Legion.
Q 06How is Imhotep punished in the prologue?
Buried alive with flesh-eating scarabs
His priests are merely mummified alive; the scarabs were an idea left over from an earlier, abandoned script.
Q 07Which text does Evelyn read from, accidentally waking Imhotep?
The Book of the Dead
The golden Book of Amun-Ra is the one she came looking for, and the one that eventually makes Imhotep mortal.
Q 08Who is the cowardly ex-Legionnaire who guides the American expedition and later serves Imhotep?
Beni Gabor
Imhotep spares him because he speaks Hebrew; scarabs get him in the end.
Q 09Who are the Medjai in the 1999 film?
Pharaoh's bodyguards sworn to stop Imhotep
Oded Fehr's Ardeth Bay leads them; museum curator Dr. Bey turns out to be one too.
Q 10What does Imhotep unleash on Cairo as he regenerates?
The biblical Plagues of Egypt
He also conjures a sandstorm with his face in it to bring down Winston's plane.
Q 11Where was the 1999 film mainly shot instead of Egypt?
Morocco
Marrakesh was easier to dress as 1920s Cairo, and the Sahara near Erfoud stood in for Hamunaptra.
Q 12During which scene did the film's leading man nearly die on set?
The hanging
He was briefly choked unconscious when the noose was pulled too tight.
Q 13Evelyn Carnahan was named in tribute to the daughter of which figure?
Lord Carnarvon
Lady Evelyn Herbert was present with her father at the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922.
Which composer scored the 1999 film?
Q 21In The Mummy Returns, what is the name of the reincarnation of Anck-su-namun?
Meela Nais
Patricia Velásquez returned to play her; Evelyn turns out to be a reincarnated princess too.
Q 22How much did The Mummy Returns gross worldwide, making it the series' biggest hit?
$436 million
Its $68 million opening weekend was then the second-largest ever, behind only The Lost World.
Q 23How many years before the events of The Mummy is The Scorpion King set?
5,001
Mathayus is one of the last surviving Akkadians; Chuck Russell directed.
What record did The Rock's $5.5M fee for The Scorpion King set?
Jerry Goldsmith
Silvestri took over for The Mummy Returns; ILM handled the effects.
Q 15Roughly how much did the 1999 film gross worldwide on an $80M budget?
$422 million
That made it the sixth-biggest film of 1999 and launched a franchise.
Q 16Which horror director wrote a 1987 treatment for a modern-day Mummy and was attached to direct?
George A. Romero
Universal wanted an unstoppable Terminator-style mummy on a $10 million budget; Romero returned again in 1994 before leaving for good.
Q 17Which director wanted Daniel Day-Lewis as a brooding Mummy in one abandoned version?
Joe Dante
Clive Barker's separate, darker take was set in a Beverly Hills art museum.
Q 18How did Stephen Sommers pitch his version of The Mummy?
As a kind of Indiana Jones adventure
He described it as 'more of a romantic-adventure-horror movie' set in the 1920s rather than the present.
Q 19Which wrestler made his film debut as the Scorpion King in The Mummy Returns?
Dwayne Johnson
He was credited as The Rock and earned $500,000 for the brief role.
Q 20In The Mummy Returns, what ancient object locks onto young Alex O'Connell's wrist?
The Bracelet of Anubis
It shows him visions leading to the oasis of Ahm Shere and puts him on a deadly countdown.
Highest salary for a first-time lead actor
It was a big step up from the $500,000 he got for The Mummy Returns.
Q 25The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor moved the series to which country?
China
Jet Li plays the emperor whose army became the Terracotta warriors; Rob Cohen directed.
Q 26Who took over the role of Evelyn in Tomb of the Dragon Emperor?
Maria Bello
Weisz declined to return; Yeoh played a very different character.
Q 27Who stars as Sergeant Nick Morton in the 2017 reboot of The Mummy?
Tom Cruise
He had turned down Rick O'Connell back in the 1990s.
Q 28What is the name of the Egyptian princess played by Sofia Boutella in the 2017 film?
Ahmanet
She was passed over for the throne when the pharaoh had a son.
Q 29The 2017 film was meant to launch which shared cinematic franchise?
The Dark Universe
Russell Crowe's Dr. Jekyll was to be its connective tissue; the film's reception killed the whole plan.
Q 30How much did the 2017 film reportedly lose for Universal?
$60-95 million
Production and marketing costs totalled about $345 million against a $410 million gross.