Food
True or false: Over 100 million chocolate bunnies are produced each year in the U.S.
False (~90 million)
It was decreed exactly how many years ago that Easter shall always be celebrated after the spring equinox?
1500
1600
1700
2
1700 (325AD)
According to whose gospel did Mary Magdalene discover an empty tomb?
Paul
John
George
Ringo
John
The Easter Bunny used to act like Santa Claus, giving kids eggs if they were good. If they were bad, what did they get?
Rotten eggs
Fish
Dirty socks
Nothing
Nothing
What are Easter baskets said to represent?
Jesus’s tomb
Bird nests
A bowl of soup
No symbolism
Bird nests
Americans eat around 16 million jellybeans each Easter, enough jellybeans to circle the Earth roughly many times?
Three
The word “Easter” is believed to derive from Eostara, who is the goddess of what?
Life
Rebirth
Rejuvination
Orange juice
Rebirth
Rounding to the nearest hundred, roughly how many people saw Jesus post-resurrection?
500
In what well-known European country did the story of the Easter Bunny originate in 1680?
Germany
What’s the last part of this medieval Easter game?
A priest would give one of the choir boys a hard boiled egg, and the boys would pass it amongst themselves until the clock struck midnight, when whoever was holding it at midnight did what with the egg?
Throw it
Break it
Eat it
Waited for something to hatch from it
Eat it
Ham is commonly eaten for Easter because it’s cheaper and comes in larger quantities than its predecessor, which was the favorite until WWII.
Lamb
In the old days, pretzels were associated with Easter because the twists of the pretzel were thought to resemble arms doing what?
Praying
Linking with other people’s arms
Raising the roof
Praying
The tomb in which Jesus was buried and risen belonged to someone else. His name was Joseph of what?
Galilee
Jerusalem
Arimathea
Israeli Starbucks
Arimathea
According to a website for kids, zoologists have found Easter Bunny footprints and determined that it is how many feet tall?
3
5
7
9
5
During which President’s administration did the White House annual Easter Egg Roll begin?
James Polk
Rutherford B. Hayes
Abraham Lincoln
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Rutherford B. Hayes (1878)
A factory called Just Born in Bethlehem, PA produces the majority of what common Easter sweet?
Chocolate bunnies
Cadbury eggs
Peeps
Jellybeans
Peeps
Egg hunts were created for women because it was a nod to what biblical event that mostly consisted of women?
Watching the crucifixion
Seeing the tomb seal moved
Jesus multiplying fish
Mary Magdalene opening an AirBnB
Seeing the tomb seal moved
In how many of the four gospels is the resurrection documented?
All four
True or false: Good Friday is recognized as an official holiday in at least 1/3 of U.S. states.
False (12)
A study found that roughly 78% of Americans think you should eat what part of your chocolate bunny first?
Ears
Bunnies and eggs didn’t become connected to Easter in the U.S. until the connection became commercialized through what?
TV shows
Greeting cards
Billboards
Games
Greeting cards (1800s)
Who was the last of Jesus’s disciples to see him resurrected?
William
Gregory
Thomas
Ringo
Thomas
In Sweden, who delivers eggs in place of the Easter Bunny?
Easter Witch
Easter Dragon
Easter Magician
Easter Wizard
Easter Wizard
What kind of flower is commonly associated with Easter?
Tulip
Sunflower
Daisy
Lily
Lily