These Easter trivia questions and answers are multiple choice and written for adults: how the date is reckoned, eggs from the Capitol lawn to imperial Russia, Easter breads from Malta to Finland, and customs from Chios to Luxembourg.
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Four rounds, from computus to capirote
The date and the calendar asks the latest date Easter can fall on and what a golden number is. Eggs, hares and flowers has the egg dance, the cascarón and the Lent lily. Easter food around the world tastes paska, mämmi, figolla and fanesca. Customs by country goes from a rocket war in Greece to bird whistles in Luxembourg.
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Why does the date of Easter change every year?
Easter is a moveable feast, kept on the first Sunday after the Paschal full moon, a reckoned full moon on or after March 21. The reckoning is called computus, and in the Gregorian calendar Easter Sunday falls between March 22 and April 25.
Who started the White House Easter Egg Roll?
President Rutherford B. Hayes and first lady Lucy Hayes brought the event to the White House lawns in 1878. Eggs had been rolled at the Capitol as early as 1855, and by the 1870s the Capitol was the most popular place for it.
Why are eggs linked with Easter?
One reason is the fast before it. Traditionally, eggs are among the foods forbidden on fast days, including all of Lent, so they came back to the table at Easter.
Are these questions about the Bible?
No. This pack asks about the calendar, eggs, food and customs. Church days and services come up plainly, as dates and names, and nothing asks what a faith teaches.
An act of the British Parliament passed in 1928 would fix the date of Easter, but it has never come into force. Which Sunday does it name?Answer: The Sunday following the second Saturday in April. Source: Wikipedia: Easter Act 1928
At which synod, held in Northumbria in 664, did the king choose the Roman way of dating Easter over the Irish way?Answer: The Synod of Whitby. Source: Wikipedia: Synod of Whitby
Holy Wednesday, the Wednesday before Easter, is also called by which name?Answer: Spy Wednesday. Source: Wikipedia: Holy Wednesday
In the reckoning of Easter, a year's golden number gives its place in a cycle of how many years?Answer: 19. Source: Wikipedia: Golden number (time)
The Octave of Easter is a period that begins on Easter Sunday. How many days does it last?Answer: Eight. Source: Wikipedia: Octave of Easter
The Quartodecimans of the early church kept their observance on a fixed day of the month of Nisan, whatever the weekday. Their name comes from the Latin for which number?Answer: Fourteen. Source: Wikipedia: Quartodecimanism
The reckoning of the date of Easter has a Latin name of its own. What is it?Answer: Computus. Source: Wikipedia: Date of Easter
The Second Sunday of Easter is known by several names, among them White Sunday and Low Sunday. Which of these is another?Answer: Quasimodo Sunday. Source: Wikipedia: Second Sunday of Easter
Septuagesima is the name of a Sunday before Lent. How many Sundays before Easter does it fall?Answer: Nine. Source: Wikipedia: Septuagesima
What is Easter called in French?Answer: Pâques. Source: Wikipedia: Names of Easter
What is the latest date on which Easter can fall in the Gregorian calendar?Answer: April 25. Source: Wikipedia: Date of Easter
Which church council of the year 325 mandated a uniform observance of the date of Easter?Answer: The First Council of Nicaea. Source: Wikipedia: First Council of Nicaea
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A cascarón, whose name means eggshell, is what?Answer: A hollowed-out egg filled with confetti. Source: Wikipedia: Cascarón
A giant sculpture of a Ukrainian-style Easter egg was commissioned by which town in the Canadian province of Alberta?Answer: Vegreville. Source: Wikipedia: Vegreville egg
A work of 1682 called De ovis paschalibus, About Easter Eggs, mentions the custom of the Easter Hare. Who wrote it?Answer: Georg Franck von Franckenau. Source: Wikipedia: Easter Bunny
By the 1870s, which place in Washington had become the most popular for rolling Easter eggs?Answer: The Capitol. Source: Wikipedia: Egg rolling
The Easter lily is sometimes named after an island where it has been much cultivated. Which island?Answer: Bermuda. Source: Wikipedia: Lilium longiflorum
The first of the jeweled eggs made for the Russian Imperial family is named after the bird in its design. Which bird?Answer: A hen. Source: Wikipedia: First Hen (Fabergé egg)
In an old Easter game, players dance among eggs laid on the ground and try to break as few as they can. What is it called?Answer: The egg dance. Source: Wikipedia: Egg dance
In films and software, what is an Easter egg?Answer: A hidden message or feature. Source: Wikipedia: Easter egg (media)
In Lancashire, yearly egg rolling competitions are held at Holcombe Hill and at Avenham Park. In which city is Avenham Park?Answer: Preston. Source: Wikipedia: Egg rolling
The Pace Egg plays are an Easter custom of rural northern England. From which old word for Easter does 'pace' come?Answer: Pasch. Source: Wikipedia: Pace Egg play
Where palms are hard to get, Palm Sunday has been kept with branches of native trees. Which of these is one of them?Answer: Willow. Source: Wikipedia: Palm Sunday
Which president and first lady brought the Easter egg roll to the lawns of the White House in 1878?Answer: Rutherford and Lucy Hayes. Source: Wikipedia: Egg rolling
Why did eggs pile up in the weeks before Easter in times past?Answer: Eggs were forbidden on the fast days of Lent. Source: Wikipedia: Easter egg
The wild daffodil has another common name that ties it to the weeks before Easter. What is it?Answer: Lent lily. Source: Wikipedia: Narcissus pseudonarcissus
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At the Easter meal of many Polish, Slovenian and Russian Catholics, a lamb is shaped from which food?Answer: Butter. Source: Wikipedia: Butter lamb
Capirotada, eaten in Mexico during Lent, is what kind of dish?Answer: A bread pudding. Source: Wikipedia: Capirotada
Cozonac is a sweet bread baked during Holy Week in Moldova and in which neighboring country?Answer: Romania. Source: Wikipedia: Cozonac
English Easter biscuits are lightly spiced and studded with which dried fruit?Answer: Currants. Source: Wikipedia: Easter biscuit
Fanesca is a soup traditionally prepared only on Good Friday. In which country?Answer: Ecuador. Source: Wikipedia: Fanesca
Figolla, a pastry with a filling like marzipan, served as an Easter sweet, comes from which country?Answer: Malta. Source: Wikipedia: Figolla
Flaounes, cheese pastries baked for Easter, are a tradition of which island?Answer: Cyprus. Source: Wikipedia: Flaouna
Folar is a traditional bread served at Easter in which country?Answer: Portugal. Source: Wikipedia: Folar
Hornazo is a Spanish meat pie eaten in the province of Ávila and in which other province?Answer: Salamanca. Source: Wikipedia: Hornazo
In 1592 a London decree forbade the sale of spiced buns except on a few occasions. Good Friday was one. Which of these was another?Answer: Christmas. Source: Wikipedia: Hot cross bun
Lampropsomo, a kind of tsoureki, is commonly called the Easter bread of which country?Answer: Greece. Source: Wikipedia: Tsoureki
Mämmi, a Finnish dessert, is traditionally made from water, malt and the flour of which grain?Answer: Rye. Source: Wikipedia: Mämmi
Mazurek, a very sweet, flat cake, is baked for Easter in which country?Answer: Poland. Source: Wikipedia: Mazurek (cake)
Paska is a traditional Easter bread of which country?Answer: Ukraine. Source: Wikipedia: Paska (bread)
Paskha, an Easter dessert of the Eastern Orthodox countries, is formed in a mold. What shape is it by tradition?Answer: A truncated pyramid. Source: Wikipedia: Paskha
Pastiera, a tart of cooked wheat, eggs and ricotta, comes from which Italian city?Answer: Naples. Source: Wikipedia: Pastiera
Pinca is a variety of Easter bread native to Italy, Slovenia, Austria and which other country?Answer: Croatia. Source: Wikipedia: Pinca
Which bread, made with only flour and water, could be eaten during Lent when eggs, lard and dairy were forbidden?Answer: The pretzel. Source: Wikipedia: Pretzel
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A capirote is worn in Spain by members of brotherhoods of penitents. What is it?Answer: A pointed hat shaped like a cone. Source: Wikipedia: Capirote
At the Royal Maundy service, one purse holds coins to the value of as many pence as what?Answer: The years of the monarch's age. Source: Wikipedia: Royal Maundy
At the Royal Maundy service, the British monarch hands out small silver coins as symbolic alms to elderly people. What are the coins called?Answer: Maundy money. Source: Wikipedia: Royal Maundy
Bottle-kicking takes place each Easter Monday in the village of Hallaton. In which English county?Answer: Leicestershire. Source: Wikipedia: Bottle-kicking
Carpets of which material are laid for the Holy Week processions of Antigua Guatemala and other towns of Central America?Answer: Colored sawdust. Source: Wikipedia: Sawdust carpet
The dyngus celebrations of which New York city were started in 1961 by a Polish-American singing society?Answer: Buffalo. Source: Wikipedia: Śmigus-dyngus
The first Easter sunrise service on record took place in 1732 in a Moravian congregation in which town of Saxony?Answer: Herrnhut. Source: Wikipedia: Sunrise service
In the town of Vrontados on the Greek island of Chios, two rival church congregations mark Easter by firing what at each other's churches?Answer: Homemade rockets. Source: Wikipedia: Rouketopolemos
The Passion Play of Oberammergau in Bavaria has been performed by the people of the village since 1634. In general, how often?Answer: Every ten years. Source: Wikipedia: Oberammergau Passion Play
The Sydney Royal Easter Show brings together an agricultural show, an amusement park and a fair. In which year was it first held?Answer: 1823. Source: Wikipedia: Sydney Royal Easter Show
Which earthenware toys shaped like birds are a special feature of the Éimaischen, the Easter Monday market of Luxembourg?Answer: Whistles. Source: Wikipedia: Emaischen
How this list was compiled
Written for this site; nothing was copied from another list. Every question, wrong choice and explanation is our own wording. Each answer agrees with a sentence in the English Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org, text under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license) named and linked beside the question, read on 2026-10-02; every extra claim in an explanation was read the same day on that page. Church days, councils and services are asked plainly, as dates, names and customs; nothing asks what a faith teaches. Left out on purpose: living people, candy makers and other brands, sales figures, and customs that hurt an animal or a person. Facts that the site's Easter pack for kids and its food, New Year and Father's Day packs already ask (egg tapping, pysanky, the bilby, which bun is eaten on Good Friday, the eleven balls of a simnel cake, the earliest date of Easter, who gave his name to the calendar of 1582) were dropped, so no question here repeats one of theirs word for word as they stood on 2026-10-02. Levels are our estimate for a table of adults; each round is stored easiest first. Licence: own work