History
What flower symbolizes purity and rebirth during Easter?
Answer: White lily
In literature, what does an egg symbolize?
Answer: New life, fertility, and untapped potential
Which candy company produces 1.5 million Creme Eggs daily?
Answer: Cadbury
What cloth was used to wrap Jesus’ body after death?
Answer: Linen
What is the period leading up to Easter called?
Answer: It is called Lent, a 40-day period of fasting and reflection
What determines the date of Easter each year?
Answer: The first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox.
Which Disney film features a rabbit named Thumper?
Answer: Bambi
What part of a chocolate bunny is eaten first?
Answer: The Ears
What did Jesus ride into Jerusalem on before his crucifixion?
Answer: A donkey
What’s a common Easter basket filler besides chocolate?
Answer: Plastic grass
Which U.S. state first celebrated the Easter Bunny?
Answer: Pennsylvania
What is the name of the lion that sacrifices himself and returns to life in C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia?
Answer: Aslan
How many jellybeans are consumed by Americans each Easter?
Answer: 16 billion
What hill was Jesus crucified on?
Answer: Golgotha
What color is commonly associated with Easter and why?
Answer: White, symbolizing purity and resurrection
Which country introduced the Easter Bunny tradition to America via immigrants?
Answer: Germany (1700s)
Which book features a rabbit who delivers eggs?
Answer: The Tale of Peter Rabbit
What’s the filling inside Cadbury Creme Eggs?
Answer: Fondant
Who denied Jesus three times before the rooster crowed?
Answer: Peter
What animal symbolizes sacrifice in Easter traditions?
Answer: Lamb
What pagan goddess is linked to Easter’s name origins?
Answer: Eostre (Anglo-Saxon)
In Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit, what are the four little rabbits names?
Answer: Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter
What’s the world’s tallest chocolate Easter egg?
Answer: 34 ft (Italy, 2011)
Who was released instead of Jesus by Pontius Pilate?
Answer: Barabbas
Which Easter game uses spoons to carry eggs?
Answer: Egg-and-spoon race