Shoeless Trivia: Episode 35 (Egypt)

I’ll take “Shoeless Trivia categories inspired by Jeopardy categories I did bad in” for $600, Alex.

1. What Frenchman is considered the primary developer of the Suez Canal? His name was used as a code word to signal Egyptian troops when the canal was nationalized in 1956.
2. Name the reservoir created by the Aswan High Dam. Named for Egypt’s second president, it is one of the largest man made lakes in the world.
3. What son of Isis and Osiris is often considered the patron god of ancient Egypt? Not a bad choice all in all; with the head of a falcon he was probably pretty good at looking out for danger.
4. The poem reproduced below (slightly redacted) was written by Horace Smith in a friendly competition with another poet. Who is that other poet, whose sonnet on the same subject is much more well known?
   

   In Egypt’s sandy silence, all alone,
   Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws
   The only shadow that the Desert knows:—
   “I am great <redacted>,” saith the stone,
   “The King of Kings; this mighty City shows
   “The wonders of my hand.”— The City’s gone,—
   Nought but the Leg remaining to disclose
   The site of this forgotten Babylon.

   We wonder,—and some Hunter may express
   Wonder like ours, when thro’ the wilderness
   Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace,
   He meets some fragment huge, and stops to guess
   What powerful but unrecorded race
   Once dwelt in that annihilated place.

5. In the board game Amun-Re, whose board is depicted below, the seven provinces of Avaris, Mendes, Amarna, Buto, Memphis, Damanhur, and Baharya are collectively referred to by what two word phrase?