Easter is the second-biggest holiday for candy consumption, topped only by this holiday.
What is Halloween?
The first Easter eggs were dyed this color to represent the blood of Christ.
What is red?
This famous rabbit is most often associated with Easter.
Who is Peter Cottontail?
This food is traditionally served on Shrove Tuesday.
What are pancakes?
This day of Holy Week is meant to honor the Last Supper.
What is Holy Thursday?
This candy has been the most popular Easter candy for over twenty years. Over 1.5 billion of this candy is consumed each Easter season.
What are Peeps?
Anglo-Saxon Pagans celebrated Eastre by eating and burying eggs in the hopes of encouraging this quality.
What is fertility?
Children used to leave this food out for the Easter Bunny, much as they still leave out milk and cookies for Santa Clause at Christmas.
What are carrots?
This traditional flower of Easter is often used to decorate the altars of churches and symbolizes new life and purity.
What is a white lily?
This figure from the Bible was the first to enter Jesus’ tomb.
Who is Peter?
These bakery delights were originally made by European monks and were given to the poor during Lent.
What are hot-crossed buns?
The tradition of dyeing Easter eggs, known as pysanka, began in this country.
What is Ukraine?
The Easter bunny hopped into the United States in the 1700s when immigrants from this country settled in America and brought their tradition of an egg-laying hare called “Osterhase.”
What is Germany?
Easter always falls between these two dates.
What is March 22 and April 25?
This location is where Jesus prayed before He was arrested.
What is the Garden of Gethsemane?
Fifty-nine percent of Americans prefer to eat chocolate bunnies this way.
What is ears first?
This famous jeweler decorated Easter eggs for royalty.
Who is Peter Karl Faberge?
Bunnies are considered an invasive species in this country, leading the country to substitute the Easter bunny for the Easter bilby.
What is Australia?
The White House Easter Egg Roll became a tradition in 1878 when this U.S. President started the practice.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
The number of days that Jesus remained on Earth after His Resurrection before Ascending to Heaven.
What is 40?
In England, a simnel cake was a fruitcake that is traditionally served at tea time on Easter. The eleven marzipan balls that adorn a traditional simnel cake represent these Christian figures.
Who are the apostles (less Judas)?
This nationality of people was the first to exchange eggs at Easter to symbolize the resurrection of Christ.
Who are the Egyptians?
The Easter bunny is thought to have originated as part of an Anglo-Saxon festival honoring this goddess of the dawn, whose sacred symbols are the hare and the egg.
Who is Eostre/Ostara?
In this Easter game, contestants smash the points of their hard-boiled eggs together to see whose egg cracks or dents.
What is egg jarping?
When Jesus entered Jerusalem for His final Passover, he rode in on a donkey, which symbolizes this.
The donkey symbolizes peace (vs. a horse which symbolizes a war-faring king)