Faith Based
On which day of Holy Week is the Last Supper commemorated?
Holy (Maundy) Thursday?
These chick-shaped marshmallow confections were hand-piped until the 1950s, when a machine reduced the making time from 27 hours to 6 minutes.
What are Peeps?
In a 1998 episode of this animated sitcom, Bart joins a church youth group and encounters an Easter egg hunt gone wrong.
What is The Simpsons?
This yellow, trumpet-shaped flower is one of the earliest signs of spring.
What is the daffodil?
This “wascally wabbit” first asked, “What’s up, Doc?” in 1940.
Who is Bugs Bunny?
This Paschal hymn begins, “Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death.”
What is the Paschal Troparion (Christos Anesti)?
Spiced buns stamped with an icing cross and traditionally eaten on Good Friday go by this three-word name.
What are hot cross buns?
The 2011 Illumination film where the Easter Bunny’s son dreams of being a drummer is titled this.
What is Hop?
The vernal equinox occurs when the sun is directly above this imaginary line on Earth.
What is the equator?
Beatrix Potter’s mischievous garden-raider in the little blue jacket.
Who is Peter Rabbit?
According to the Gospels, she was the first person to witness the risen Christ.
Who is Mary Magdalene?
“Jelly beans” likely evolved from a 17th-century French candy-coating technique known as dragée; their basic center is made of this simple sugar.
What is sucrose?
Chandler Bing wears a fuzzy pink bunny suit in the Season 8 Thanksgiving-Easter mash-up episode of this sitcom.
What is Friends?
“Hanami” in Japan celebrates the brief blooming of these trees.
What are cherry (sakura) trees?
Alice follows this anxious, time-obsessed bunny down a hole to Wonderland.
Who is the White Rabbit?
In traditional Orthodox icons of the Resurrection, the risen Christ is shown pulling these two ancestral figures up from their tombs, symbolizing the Harrowing of Hades.
Who are Adam and Eve?
The Reese’s Peanut Butter Egg outsells all other seasonal Reese’s shapes; its first full-nation U.S. release was in this decade.
What is the 1990s (1993)?
In Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Hagrid wins this creature in a card game and later presents it to Harry on Easter.
What is a dragon egg?
On February 2, the emergent shadow of this Pennsylvania animal supposedly predicts how long winter will last.
What is the groundhog (Punxsutawney Phil)?
Animated star of a 1988 live-action/animation hybrid who pleads, “P-p-please, Eddie!”
Who is Roger Rabbit?
In Luke 24, the two disciples finally recognize the risen Jesus during this specific action at Emmaus.
What is “the breaking of bread”?
These sugar-crusted Italian doughnuts—whose name means “little mustaches”—are eaten on St. Joseph’s Day but often re-appear in Easter pastry cases.
What are zeppole?
In the 1974 TV special It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown, this Peanuts character insists on dyeing eggs.
Who is Peppermint Patty?
North America’s earliest harbinger of spring migration for many birders is the arrival of this orange-and-black butterfly from Mexico.
What is the monarch butterfly?
Introduced in the 1996 film Space Jam, this basketball-savvy rabbit became a Looney Tunes fan favorite.
Who is Lola Bunny?