50 Easter trivia questions and answers

Fifty questions on the Easter date, eggs and chocolate, bunny folklore and customs around the world, with answers. Easter 2027 is Sunday, March 28.

KraftyLab TeamUpdated Nov 20269 min read

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Easter trivia is a quiz on how the date of Easter is set, the history of eggs and chocolate, Easter Bunny folklore and how the holiday is marked around the world. Here are 50 Easter trivia questions and answers in five rounds of 10, each marked easy, medium or hard. One round takes about 8 minutes, and every question is history or custom, so coworkers who don't celebrate Easter can play every round.

Round 1: easy Easter trivia

Quick warm-up questions on the season's symbols and sweets. Most teams get eight or more.

1. On what date is Easter Sunday in 2027?Easy
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March 28
2. Which long-eared animal brings eggs and candy in American Easter folklore?Easy
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The Easter Bunny
3. What color are the trumpet-shaped flowers of the classic potted Easter lily?Easy
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White
4. Peeps marshmallow candies were first shaped like which baby animal?Easy
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Chicks
5. What do you call a game where people search a yard or room for hidden eggs?Easy
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An egg hunt
6. Which yellow spring flower has a trumpet-shaped center called a corona?Easy
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The daffodil
7. What woven container do children traditionally carry on an egg hunt?Easy
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A basket
8. Which small, chewy, bean-shaped candy is a classic Easter basket filler?Easy
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Jelly beans
9. In the Northern Hemisphere, Easter always falls in which season?Easy
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Spring (it always comes after the March equinox)
10. What is the week leading up to Easter Sunday called?Easy
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Holy Week

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Round 2: how the date of Easter is set

Why Easter moves every year, and the days around it. A good round for the calendar fans.

11. Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after which yearly event?Medium
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The spring equinox (for the calculation the church fixes it at March 21)
12. What is the earliest possible date for Easter in Western churches?Hard
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March 22
13. What is the latest possible date for Easter in Western churches?Hard
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April 25
14. Which church council of AD 325 called for Christians to keep Easter on one shared Sunday?Hard
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The Council of Nicaea
15. Most Orthodox churches set their Easter date with which older calendar?Medium
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The Julian calendar
16. On what date is Orthodox Easter in 2027?Medium
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May 2 (five weeks after Western Easter)
17. On which day does Lent begin, 46 days before Easter?Medium
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Ash Wednesday (40 days of Lent plus six Sundays)
18. What is the Thursday before Easter called?Medium
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Maundy Thursday (also Holy Thursday)
19. Ascension Day, 40 days into the Easter season, always falls on which day of the week?Medium
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Thursday
20. Which feast, whose name comes from the Greek word for fiftieth, falls seven weeks after Easter?Hard
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Pentecost

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Round 3: eggs, candy and chocolate trivia

Dyed eggs, jeweled eggs and a short history of chocolate. The hard ones are worth arguing over.

21. Which jeweler's firm made jeweled Easter eggs for the last two Russian czars?Medium
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Fabergé (Peter Carl Fabergé's house in St. Petersburg)
22. The first imperial Fabergé egg, delivered in 1885, opens to a gold yolk holding what?Hard
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A gold hen
23. What are Ukrainian Easter eggs decorated with beeswax and dyes called?Medium
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Pysanky (from pysaty, to write)
24. Which kitchen scrap, boiled in water, dyes eggs a rusty red-brown?Medium
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Onion skins
25. Peeps are made by Just Born, a candy company based in which US state?Medium
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Pennsylvania (in Bethlehem)
26. According to their maker, about how long did it take to make one Peeps chick by hand in 1953?Hard
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27 hours (machines cut it to about six minutes)
27. Which company made the first hollow chocolate Easter egg in Britain, in 1873?Hard
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J.S. Fry & Sons (Cadbury followed in 1875)
28. In which country was milk chocolate first made, in the 1870s?Medium
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Switzerland
29. Which Dutch chemist patented a press in 1828 that made cocoa powder possible?Hard
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Coenraad van Houten
30. Long before candy eggs, cacao was first made into a drink in which region?Medium
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Mesoamerica (today's Mexico and Central America)

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Round 4: Easter Bunny and folklore trivia

Where the bunny came from, who else brings the eggs, and a few customs you may not know.

31. Which English monk wrote around AD 725 that Easter's name came from a spring goddess, Eostre?Hard
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Bede (the Venerable Bede)
32. German settlers brought the egg-bringing Osterhase to which American colony?Medium
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Pennsylvania
33. In the old Pennsylvania Dutch custom, children made nests for the hare's eggs out of what?Hard
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Their caps and bonnets
34. In parts of Switzerland, which bird was said to bring the Easter eggs?Medium
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The cuckoo
35. In Westphalia, Germany, which animal was once said to bring the Easter eggs?Hard
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The fox
36. Which endangered native marsupial is promoted in Australia as an Easter mascot instead of the rabbit?Medium
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The bilby (rabbits are an introduced pest there)
37. In Germany, what do people hang decorated eggs on at Easter?Easy
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Trees and branches (an Easter egg tree)
38. In Christian tradition, an opened Easter egg stands for what?Medium
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The empty tomb (and new life)
39. In Norway, what kind of story is a classic Easter read, in books, on TV and even on milk cartons?Medium
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Crime mysteries (called påskekrim, Easter crime)
40. Nearly all Easter lily bulbs in North America grow in a coastal strip on which two states' border?Hard
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California and Oregon

Round 5: Easter around the world trivia

How towns and countries mark the weekend, from the White House lawn to Florence. Customs vary by family and region.

41. Which US president first opened the White House lawn to Easter egg rolling, in 1878?Medium
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Rutherford B. Hayes
42. Before 1878, children in Washington rolled eggs on the grounds of which building until Congress banned it?Hard
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The US Capitol
43. On Good Friday in Bermuda, people fill the sky with what?Medium
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Homemade kites
44. In Greece, Easter eggs are traditionally dyed which color?Easy
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Red
45. In the Greek Easter game tsougrisma, what do players do with their eggs?Medium
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Tap them together (the egg that stays uncracked wins)
46. In Florence's Scoppio del Carro on Easter Sunday, what is set off outside the cathedral?Hard
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A cart full of fireworks (lit by a mechanical dove on a wire)
47. Italy's colomba Easter cake is baked in the shape of which bird?Medium
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A dove
48. Which British Easter fruitcake is topped with 11 marzipan balls?Medium
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Simnel cake (one for each apostle except Judas)
49. On Easter Monday in Poland, what do friends splash on each other for Śmigus-dyngus?Medium
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Water
50. In Preston, England, families roll eggs down the slopes of which park at Easter?Hard
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Avenham Park

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Play it on a shared screen

Pick a round, share this screen and click through 10 questions. Show the answer, mark it, and the last card shows the score and what your team missed.

EasyQuestion 1 of 10 · Score 0

On what date is Easter Sunday in 2027?

Say your answer out loud, or write it down, then check it.

How to run Easter trivia at work

It works in a conference room, on a hybrid call or fully on video. You need one reader and 20 to 45 minutes. Many teams play the week before Easter, which in 2027 runs March 22 to 26.

Split into teams of 4 to 6. Tables in the office, breakout rooms on video. Let each team pick a spring flower as its name.
Read 10 questions at a time. Say each one twice and allow half a minute to answer. Ten questions take about 8 minutes: two rounds fit a 20-minute slot, all five a 45-minute game.
Reveal answers after the round. Open the answers under each question, or screen-share the quiz below and click Show the answer.
Hybrid: one reader for everyone. Share the quiz on the call and on the room's screen; remote teams send answers in a private chat so nobody hears them called out.
Give 1 point per answer, 2 for a Hard one. A bowl of foil eggs or a potted tulip works as an office prize. Remote winners get a shout-out or first pick of the next meeting's playlist.

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Easter trivia FAQ

When is Easter in 2027?

Easter Sunday is March 28, 2027. Orthodox Easter, set with the Julian calendar, is May 2, 2027. Western Easter can fall anywhere from March 22 to April 25.

What are good Easter trivia questions for adults at work?

Questions on how the date is set, egg and chocolate history, Easter Bunny folklore and customs around the world. They are fun whether or not people celebrate, and they stay away from beliefs as a joke. This page has 50 in five rounds of 10.

How long does Easter trivia take?

About 10 questions per 8 minutes. Two rounds fill a 20-minute slot in a meeting; all five rounds make a 45-minute game with scoring.

Can someone host spring trivia and games for our team?

Yes. A live host runs Spring Time Fun & Games or a trivia game show on Zoom (or Teams, Google Meet or Webex on request), with small-group rounds and scoring. Hosted games book about 2 weeks ahead. See virtual trivia prices or ask for a free quote.

How do you play Easter trivia on Zoom?

Screen-share the quiz further down this page and read each question aloud. Teams talk it over in breakout rooms or a private chat, then everyone comes back for the answer reveal at the end of the round.