🌸Easter Traditions (Europe)
🐣Eggs, Symbols & Fun Facts
🍫Chocolate & Sweet History
🧠Riddles & Quick Logic
⚡SUPER HARD
- 600 pts each!
- 600 pts each!
100
In France, Easter chocolates are said to be brought by the flying bells. Where do they “fly” to?
Rome
100
What is the name of the activity where people search for hidden eggs?
An egg hunt.
100
Which country is often cited as #1 for chocolate consumption per person?
Switzerland
100
“I can be chocolate, hidden, or painted—but I’m not eaten when I’m truly old.” What am I?
An Easter egg.
100
Where did the name “Easter” come from?
The name Easter owes its origin from Eastre, the Anglo-Saxon goddess who symbolizes hare and egg.
200
In the UK, what sweet bun is traditionally eaten on Good Friday?
Hot cross buns.
200
True/False: White chocolate contains cocoa solids.
False (it has cocoa butter, not cocoa solids).
200
Around what century did chocolate Easter bunnies become popular in Europe?
19th century.
200
“The more you take, the more you leave behind.” What are they?
Footsteps.
200
When were the first chocolate Easter Eggs made?
Chocolate eggs are said to have originated in France and Germany in the early 19th century but here in the UK it was J. S. Fry & Sons Limited who produced the first chocolate egg in 1873. John Cadbury made his first ‘French eating Chocolate’ in 1842 but it was not until 1875 that the first Cadbury Easter Eggs were made.
300
In Spain (especially Andalusia), what large public events often take place during Holy Week?
Religious processions (Semana Santa processions).
300
What do eggs traditionally symbolize in many cultures at Easter: life, or winter?
Life / new life.
300
In general, which melts faster in your hand: dark chocolate or milk chocolate?
Milk chocolate.
300
You have 18 chocolate eggs and want to make treat bags with 5 eggs each. How many full bags can you make, and how many eggs are left over?
3 full bags, 3 eggs left over.
300
What is the most expensive Easter Egg ever made?
In 2007, an egg covered in diamonds sold for almost £9 million.
400
In Poland, Easter Monday features a water-splashing custom. What is it called?
Śmigus-Dyngus.
400
What is “egg tapping” (also called egg cracking) most basically a contest of?
Whose egg shell is strongest (whose egg doesn’t crack).
400
Approx. record: the world’s largest chocolate Easter egg weighed about…
~7,200 kg (about 7.2 tonnes).
400
Easter is always on a Sunday—how is the date calculated (Western churches)?
First Sunday after the first full moon following the March equinox.
400
Why is there an Easter Bunny? What do bunnies have to do with eggs? Or Easter?
The Easter Bunny originates from paintings of the Anglo Saxon Goddess Eastre, who was always depicted holding a hare.
500
In Sweden and parts of Finland, children may dress up and go door-to-door at Easter, similar to Halloween. What are they commonly dressed as?
Easter witches.
500
What’s the earliest and latest possible date for Easter Sunday (Western)?
March 22 and April 25.
500
In France, roughly how much chocolate is sold for Easter each year (order of magnitude)?
About 15,000 tonnes (accept ~10,000–20,000).
500
An Easter bunny hides 24 eggs. You find 1/3 of them in the morning and 1/4 of them in the afternoon (of the total). How many eggs do you find altogether?
13⋅24+14⋅24=8+6=14\frac{1}{3}\cdot 24 + \frac{1}{4}\cdot 24 = 8 + 6 = 1431⋅24+41⋅24=8+6=14 eggs.
500
Why do we give each other eggs at Easter?
The exchange of eggs for Easter dates back to a springtime custom older than Easter itself! Eggs were given as a symbol of fertility and rebirth. This can be traced back to the Egyptians, Persians, Gauls, Greeks and the Romans. In Christianity, for the celebration of “Eastertide”, the egg represents the empty tomb of Jesus, from which Jesus was resurrected.