American Easter
What common Easter activity involves decorating eggs?
Dyeing, coloring, or painting eggs. (All answers are acceptable.)
Most Americans bite off what part of a chocolate bunny first?
The ears! (76% of people eat the ears on chocolate bunnies first, 5% eat the feet first and 4% eat the tail first. 0.1% leave it complete because they simply can’t dismember an actual animal.)
This animal is often seen in Easter imagery, symbolizing innocence and purity.
What is the Easter bunny?
This symbol, often seen during Easter, represents new life and is frequently associated with Jesus' resurrection.
What is the butterfly?
What vegetable do kids leave out for the Easter bunny?
Carrots
Besides bunnies, what animals are considered symbols of Easter?
A lamb or a chick
This country celebrates Easter through water fights.
What is Poland?
The resurrection of Jesus Christ is remembered on this famous day of the week.
What is Easter Sunday?
This gift is given to children around Easter and usually contains small toys and candy.
What is an Easter basket?
These colorful, sugar-coated marshmallow treats are shaped like either chicks or bunnies and are a famous Easter candy.
What are Peeps?
In Switzerland, this animal delivers Easter eggs instead of the Easter bunny.
What is the cuckoo bird?
This is the Sunday before Easter.
What is Palm Sunday?
American children gather on the White House lawn each spring to participate in this famous Easter event.
What is the Easter egg roll?
(In many Christian traditions, this activity involves rolling a symbolic egg to represent the stone being rolled away from Jesus’ tomb.)
Children prefer to eat these colorful soft candies one at a time. They're usually found in Easter eggs during egg hunts.
What are jelly beans?
This apostle, known for being the "rock" on which Jesus would build His church, famously denied Jesus three times before His crucifixion.
Who is Peter?
Jesus was nailed to the cross and crucified on this famous day.
What is Good Friday?
Which famous chocolate company makes Cadbury Creme Eggs in the United States?
Hersheys * Cadbury * Nestle * Godiva
Hersheys! (The Hershey Company owns an exclusive license to produce Cadbury Creme Eggs stateside, which means U.K.-made Creme Eggs are not allowed to be distributed in the U.S.)
Americans spend $1.9 billion on Easter candy, which makes it the second biggest candy holiday after this famous celebration.
This country's immigrants brought the tradition of the "Oschter Haws" (Easter Hare) to America, creating the "Easter Bunny" hunts we know today.
What is Germany?
A lamb is considered another important symbol of Easter because it represents this important Christian idea, which is also a famous idiom.
What is "like a lamb to the slaughter?" (Represents the idea of an innocent Jesus ("the lamb") being sacrificed for the forgiveness of humanity's sins.)