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Easter Trivia Questions for Kids, From Egg Rolls to the Date Rule: how it works
The egg hunt is over in ten minutes, and there is a whole afternoon left. Read a card aloud, tap the choice the children shout, then press Check answer. These 60 Easter trivia questions for kids come in four topics of 15: eggs and egg games, spring animals and flowers, customs around the world, and the rule that sets the date.
Play a round after the egg hunt
Open Topic to stay on one subject, or leave all four on for a mix. After Check answer the card shows the right choice, a sentence that adds something new, and a link to the Wikipedia article it was checked on. Misses wait under Missed. Exam mode asks 20 and totals them by topic. Print question sheet puts 20 on paper, with Print answer key for the grown-up.
What the four topics ask
Eggs and egg games covers hunts, rolling and tapping, red eggs, wax-drawn pysanky and a chick's egg tooth. Spring animals names the young of rabbits, hares, sheep, ducks and geese. Customs visits Poland's water fights, Bermuda's kites, a cart of fireworks in Florence and the Easter witches of Sweden and Finland. The date topic explains Lent, Pancake Day and why Easter moves.
Tips
Under seven? Stay on the eggs and animals topics, which hold 10 of the 16 easy questions.
Turn the hunt into a quiz: each child brings a found egg to the quizmaster and answers one card to keep it.
For a classroom or Sunday school, pick the date topic, print the sheet, and let pairs work before you read the key.
Questions and answers
What ages are these Easter questions for?
Ages 5 to 12. An editor marked 16 questions easy, for ages 5 to 7, such as what a baby sheep is called. Another 23 are medium, for ages 8 to 10, and 21 are hard, for ages 10 to 12, such as how many marzipan balls top a simnel cake. Every question has four choices.
Why does Easter fall on a different date each year?
Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon that comes on or after March 21, a fixed stand-in for the March equinox. That puts it somewhere from March 22 to April 25. Many Orthodox churches use the older Julian calendar, so their Easter can land on a different Sunday.
Are the questions religious?
Some are. The date topic asks about Lent, Palm Sunday, Good Friday and Pentecost as plain calendar facts, and one egg question gives the Christian meaning of red eggs. The rest is eggs, animals, food and customs. Every answer was checked on September 19, 2026 against the Wikipedia article linked beside it.
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A chick hatches with a small, sharp bump on its beak that later falls off. What is the bump for?Wikipedia: Egg tooth
Every year an Easter egg roll is held on the lawn of which famous house in Washington, D.C.?Wikipedia: Egg rolling
For how many days does a hen usually sit on her eggs before the chicks hatch?Wikipedia: Chicken
In an ancient Easter tradition, kept by the Russian Orthodox Church, eggs are dyed which single color?Wikipedia: Easter egg
In an Easter egg hunt, what do the children do?Wikipedia: Egg hunt
In England, eggs were once wrapped in something and boiled so the shells came out like mottled gold. What were they wrapped in?Wikipedia: Easter egg
In Germany, people hang decorated eggs on the branches of trees and bushes at Easter. What is this called?Wikipedia: Easter egg tree
In the game of egg rolling, where do children roll their eggs?Wikipedia: Egg rolling
In the game of egg tapping, two players knock hard-boiled eggs together. Who wins?Wikipedia: Egg tapping
The jeweler Peter Carl Fabergé made famous jeweled Easter eggs for the rulers of which country?Wikipedia: Fabergé egg
Pysanky are Easter eggs with patterns drawn on in hot wax before the egg is dyed. Which country counts them as a national symbol?Wikipedia: Egg decorating in Slavic culture
Small, bean-shaped sugar candies with a soft shell and a gel middle are a favorite in American Easter baskets. What are they called?Wikipedia: Jelly bean
What is the yellow part in the middle of an egg called?Wikipedia: Yolk
Which sweet treat is often shaped like an egg or a bunny at Easter?Wikipedia: Easter egg
Why have eggs long been a sign of Easter and of spring?Wikipedia: Easter egg
Spring animals and flowers 15
A frog's eggs are laid in water. What hatches out of them?Wikipedia: Tadpole
Baby rabbits are born blind and without fur. How are baby hares born?Wikipedia: Hare
The Easter Bunny story began among German Lutherans. What animal was the egg-bringer in those first stories?Wikipedia: Easter Bunny
German settlers brought the story of an egg-giving hare to America in the 1700s. In which state did they settle?Wikipedia: Easter Bunny
In Australia, some shops sell a chocolate Easter treat shaped like which long-eared native animal, in place of a bunny?Wikipedia: Macrotis
What is a baby duck called?Wikipedia: Duck
What is a baby goose called?Wikipedia: Goose
What is a baby hare called?Wikipedia: Hare
What is a baby rabbit called?Wikipedia: Rabbit
What is a baby sheep called?Wikipedia: Sheep
What is a group of rabbit burrows close together under the ground called?Wikipedia: Hare
What is a male chicken called?Wikipedia: Chicken
Which animal is said to bring Easter eggs to children?Wikipedia: Easter Bunny
Which spring flower, usually yellow or white, has a cup shaped like a trumpet in its middle?Wikipedia: Narcissus (plant)
The white Easter lily grows wild in only two places. One is Taiwan. Where is the other?Wikipedia: Lilium longiflorum
Easter customs around the world 15
A simnel cake is an Easter fruit cake eaten in Britain and Ireland. How many marzipan balls usually go on top?Wikipedia: Simnel cake
The best-known Easter parade in the United States goes along which street?Wikipedia: Easter parade
Colomba di Pasqua is an Italian Easter bread. What shape is it?Wikipedia: Colomba pasquale
Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean is famous for its giant stone statues. How did it get its name?Wikipedia: Easter Island
In Florence, Italy, a tall cart packed with what is lit outside the cathedral on Easter Sunday?Wikipedia: Scoppio del carro
In many countries the day after Easter Sunday is a public holiday. What is it called?Wikipedia: Easter Monday
In northern Germany and parts of the Netherlands, what do people light outdoors at Easter?Wikipedia: Easter fire
In parts of Germany, people decorate public wells and fountains at Easter. What do they use?Wikipedia: Osterbrunnen
In Poland, what do people do to each other on Easter Monday?Wikipedia: Śmigus-dyngus
In Sweden and Finland, children dress up at Easter and go from door to door for treats. What do they dress as?Wikipedia: Easter witch
In the legend, what does the Easter Bunny carry its colored eggs in?Wikipedia: Easter Bunny
Kulich is a tall Easter bread with white icing on top. Which part of the world is it from?Wikipedia: Kulich (bread)
On the island of Bermuda, what do people of all ages fly on Good Friday?Wikipedia: Bermuda kite
What is a new or fancy hat worn at Easter called?Wikipedia: Easter bonnet
Which spiced bun with a cross on top is eaten on Good Friday?Wikipedia: Hot cross bun
The date and the Easter season 15
About how many days does Lent, the season before Easter, last?Wikipedia: Lent
The day before Lent begins is Shrove Tuesday. In the United Kingdom and Ireland it has another name. Which food is it named after?Wikipedia: Shrove Tuesday
Easter comes in spring in the northern half of the world. In which season does it come in Australia?Wikipedia: Spring (season)
Easter falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon of spring. On or after which date must that full moon come?Wikipedia: Date of Easter
Easter is also called Pascha. Which Jewish festival is that name linked to?Wikipedia: Easter
Holidays that change their date from year to year, as Easter does, have a special name. What is it?Wikipedia: Moveable feast
Many Orthodox churches keep Easter on a different date from other churches. Why?Wikipedia: Date of Easter
Mardi Gras is a carnival held the day before Lent. What do the French words "Mardi Gras" mean?Wikipedia: Mardi Gras
The monk Bede wrote, about 1,300 years ago, that the English word "Easter" came from the name of a goddess. What was she called?Wikipedia: Ēostre
On which day does Lent begin?Wikipedia: Ash Wednesday
On which day of the week does Easter always fall?Wikipedia: Date of Easter
What is the earliest date on which Easter can fall in the calendar most countries use?Wikipedia: Date of Easter
What is the Friday just before Easter Sunday called?Wikipedia: Good Friday
What is the Sunday before Easter called?Wikipedia: Palm Sunday
Which Christian holiday, also called Whitsun, comes seven weeks after Easter Sunday?Wikipedia: Pentecost
How this list was compiled: Written for this site by the editors; nothing was copied from another list. Every question, wrong choice and explanation is our own wording. Each answer, and each extra fact in the line under it, was checked on 2026-09-19 against the English Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org) named and linked beside the question. The article text was fetched through the MediaWiki API on 2026-09-19, and the sentence that states the fact was read before the question was kept. Questions were dropped or reworded when the article did not state the fact in plain words (Easter fires on hillsides, the Norwegian custom of reading crime stories at Easter, how many days apart the two calendars are). Left out on purpose: this year's or next year's Easter date, records, living people, and film, TV and brand names. Religious facts are stated plainly and without taking a side. No question repeats one in the site's other trivia banks. Levels are an editor's judgment: easy suits ages 5 to 7, medium ages 8 to 10, hard ages 10 to 12. Licence: own work