Easter
What animal is considered an Easter symbol?
True or false: After spending the winter months in Africa, swallows usually return to the same nest each year.
What is True?
What is the birthstone for April?
What is diamond?
Which season follows spring?
What is Summer?
In English speaking countries, when should you traditionally decorate your eggs?
Before or On day?
...Before Easter!
The first Easter eggs were dyed what color?
Red or Green?
What color is Red?
Ducklings usually start to emerge from March onwards, but how long are the eggs incubated for before they hatch?
1 month or 28 days?
The Sweet Pea is a birth flower of April. What is the other one?
Daisy or Lily?
What is Daisy?
What is the official name for the first day of spring?
Spring equinox or April equinox?
What is Spring equinox?
Where might a German family hang its Easter eggs?
On an Easter tree
About how many chocolate bunnies are produced each year?
80 million or 90 million
How much is 90 million?
During spring bumblebees begin to come out of hibernation. How large is an average bumblebee colony?
400 workers or 1000 workers?
How many is 400 workers?
As well as Aries, what other star sign could you be if you were born in April?
Pisces or Taurus?
When is Taurus?
What does the word “equinox” mean?
Equal night or More night?
What is Equal night?
What do Easter bunnies symbolize?
Good fortune or Fertility?
Fertility!
What baked good is a Good Friday tradition in England?
Shortbread or Hot cross buns?
What is Hot cross buns?
As well as taking their first steps within an hour of being born, lambs are born with their bodies already covered in wool. How long will a sheep’s wool grow before being shed?
6 months, 2 years or forever?
How long is forever?
Which famous painter and sculpture was born in April 1452?
Vincent van Gogh or Leonardo Da Vinci?
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
When the Northern Hemisphere experiences spring, what season does the Southern Hemisphere experience?
Summer or Fall?
What is Fall ?
In which country is it traditional to craft, and then consume, a lamb made of butter on Easter Sunday?
Denmark or Poland?
Where is Poland?
Easter always falls between which two dates?
March 22 and April 25 or April 25 and May 1st?
What do you do between March 22 and April 25?
Around this time of year, frogspawn begins to appear in ponds across the country. How long does it take to hatch?
Between two ~ three months or Around three weeks?
How long is Around three weeks?
April's Full Moon is traditionally known as what?
Pink Moon or Blue Moon?
What is Pink Moon?
(April's full moon is most commonly known as the Full Pink Moon, named after forest wildflowers that bloom in April.)
True or False? Tornadoes are more prevalent in the spring.
True!
In what country might you see young girls, dressed up as witches, trick-or-treating on Maundy Thursday?
Argentina or Sweden?
Where is Sweden?