Easter Vocabulary
The week before Easter starting on Palm Sunday is called....
What is the Holy Week?
When does the Lenten season start and end?
What are Ash Wednesday and Holy Saturday?
How do we set the date for Easter Sunday?
What the first Sunday following the first full moon in spring?
How was Jesus executed?
What is crucify?
What do you call coming up with an unexpected, sudden, surprising solution to a problem.
What is to pull a rabbit out of the hat?
Who hides Easter eggs for children to find?
What is the Easter Bunny?
Why were Easter eggs dyed red in the past?
What is to represent the blood of Jesus?
Which "race" takes place at the White House on Easter Sunday?
What is Egg Rolling?
What is the day called on which we commemorate the Last Supper?
What is Maundy Thursday?
What do you call the feeling or the belief that an alternative would always be brighter and better than what you are having right now.
What is the grass is always greener (on the other side).
Name three flowers that grow in early spring or that are symbolically related to Easter.
What are daffodils, tulips and lilies?
Who was the Easter Holiday originally named after?
Who is the Germanic goddess Eostre?
In this game you try to break your opponent's egg by banging yours against it - without getting yours damaged.
What is egg tapping?
What was the Jewish feast called that was celebrated before Jesus died?
What is Passover/Pesach/Pascha?
What do you call a person who is not really young any more
What is no spring chicken?
What is another phrase for "colour" Easter eggs?
What is to dye?
How many marzipan balls are there on the top of an English simnel cake?
What is eleven?
When are traditionally Hot Cross Buns eaten?
What is Good Friday?
What does Golgotha mean?
What is the place of the skull?
How do we say that in order to achieve something, something else has to be destroyed or sacrificed
What is You can't make an omlette without breaking the eggs.
Hidden Easter eggs and sweets may be found in this container
What is an Easter basket?
Who hides the Easter eggs in Australia?
What is the Easter bilby?
These egg-shaped candies come in a variety of flavours - what are they called?
What are Jelly Beans?
Where did Jesus get buried in?
What is a tomb?
What do you call an older woman inappropriately dressed in clothes that would fit only younger females?
What is mutton dressed as lamb?