20 tricky Easter quiz questions and answers to test your IQ this weekend

08 April 2023 , 06:00

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It's time to celebrate Easter (Image: Getty Images)

Easter is an important Christian festival where many mark the resurrection of Jesus, but it's also a bank holiday in the UK, and an occasion for families to come together.

However you celebrate Easter, whether that be going to church or eat your body weight in chocolate eggs, you might be spending more time with family than usual.

As such, we've put together an Easter quiz for you to flex your IQ levels and prove you're a genius this weekend. Why not make it more interesting and add some prizes into the mix? Maybe some chocolate eggs?

Here are 20 Easter-themed questions to test your friends' or family's holiday knowledge. You will find all the answers below.

Easter quiz questions

Easter is a time for family (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

1. Easter comes after a 40-day period known as...?
2. What type of hat is traditionally worn at Easter?
3. What meat is traditionally eaten on Easter Sunday?
4. Who wrote The Tale of Peter Rabbit?
5. Which company makes Creme Eggs?
6. According to The Bible, how many days were there between Jesus' death and resurrection?
7. What's the Sunday before Easter called?
8. Which chocolate company produced the first chocolate egg in the UK?
9. Which country did the Easter bunny originate in?
10. What type of 'chocolate' contains cocoa butter but not cocoa beans?
11. What food is traditionally eaten on Good Friday?
12. Which flowers, that bloom around Easter, is a symbol of spring?
13. What colour were the first-ever Easter eggs dyed?
14. Besides bunnies, what other animal is considered a symbol of Easter?
15. What popular game is traditionally played at Easter?
16. What dance traditionally takes place at Easter?
17. What does the egg symbolise when it comes to Easter?
18. What does the cross on a hot crossed bun symbolise?
19. Which fruit cake, with two layers of almond paste or marzipan, is traditionally eaten at Easter?
20. How many Creme Eggs does Cadbury make every year? 50 million, 500 million or 5 billion?

Easter quiz answers

Do you know all the answers? Find out below (Getty Images/500px Plus)

1. Lent
2. An Easter bonnet
3. Lamb
4. Beatrix Potter
5. Cadbury
6. Three
7. Palm Sunday
8. J.S Frys and Sons
9. Germany
10. White chocolate
11. Fish
12. Daffodils
13. Red
14. The lamb
15. Easter egg hunt
16. Morris dancing
17. The Resurrection and new life
18. The cross on which Jesus Christ died
19. Simnel cake
20. 500 million

How did you do? Did you manage to answer all the questions? Let us know in the comment section below.

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