All Things Easter
Whether you're hunting eggs or wearing your spring bonnet to church, fill your basket with questions in this fun trivia game on all things Easter.
15 questions · Published April 8, 2022
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. What determines Easter Sunday's actual date, which always falls sometime between March 22 and April 25?
Easter is a moveable feast, meaning it has no fixed celebration date. Easter Sunday is determined by the phases of the moon, in that Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon closest to March 21, the spring equinox.
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2. What is the traditional first day of "Holy Week," which culminates with Easter Sunday?
Palm Sunday is the Sunday before Easter and marks the beginning of "Holy Week" for Christians. The feast commemorates Jesus's triumphant return to Jerusalem, an event mentioned in each of the four canonical Gospels.
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3. In 1893 a New Jersey drug store owner invented a tablet that could be mixed with water and _________ to dye eggs for Easter.
Drugstore owner William Townley originally sold his egg dyeing tablets, which could be combined with vinegar to form dye, for five cents, and he would eventually launch the Paas Dye Company.
"Paas" comes from Pasen, the Dutch word for Easter.
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4. What mammals share their gender-specific names with male and female bunnies?
Like deer, a female rabbit is called a “doe,” and a male rabbit is called a “buck.”
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5. Speaking of bunnies, 1988's animated hit "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" is based on the 1981 novel _____________ by Gary K. Wolf.
"Who Censored Roger Rabbit?," a mystery novel written by Gary K. Wolf in 1981, was adapted by Disney and Amblin Entertainment into the critically acclaimed 1988 film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit."
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