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Hard Easter Trivia Questions
The hard questions from our easter set, 14 of them, each with the answer and an explanation below the game.
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Hard means the technical vocabulary and the far corners of the season: computus, Quadragesima, the Paschal moon as a church approximation, Simnel cake in Britain, Wet Monday in Poland and the bilby campaign in Australia. Every answer is a matter of record rather than of belief.
14 hard easter trivia questions with answers
What is the technical name for the calculation of the date of Easter?
Answer: Computus Medieval monasteries devoted enormous effort to getting it right.
Which English monk linked the word Easter to a goddess named Eostre?
Answer: The Venerable Bede He wrote about it in the eighth century, and it is the only early source for the claim.
The Paschal full moon used to set the date is best described as what?
Answer: An ecclesiastical approximation rather than the astronomical moon That is why Easter occasionally differs from what the sky would suggest.
What is the Saturday between Good Friday and Easter Sunday called?
Answer: Holy Saturday Many churches hold an evening vigil service that night.
The fifty-day season that begins at Easter ends with which feast?
Answer: Pentecost Ascension falls within the season, forty days after Easter.
In which country do children traditionally hear that church bells, not a rabbit, bring the Easter eggs?
Answer: France The bells are said to fall silent from Thursday and return from Rome on Sunday.
Simnel cake, topped with marzipan balls, is an Easter tradition in which country?
Answer: The United Kingdom The balls are usually eleven, standing for the apostles minus Judas.
The jeweled Faberge eggs were made as Easter gifts for which family?
Answer: The Russian imperial family The first was commissioned in 1885 and the series ran until the revolution.
In Poland, Easter Monday is marked by a custom involving what?
Answer: Sprinkling or dousing people with water It is known there as Smigus-dyngus, or Wet Monday.
Ascension Day falls how long after Easter Sunday?
Answer: Forty days It always lands on a Thursday as a result.
Quadragesima is the Latin name for which season?
Answer: Lent It simply means fortieth, after the length of the fast.
Which animal has been promoted in Australia as a native alternative to the Easter Bunny?
Answer: The bilby Rabbits are a destructive introduced pest there, which is the point of the campaign.
What are the traditional Christian practices of Lent?
Answer: Prayer, fasting and almsgiving The three are usually named together as the pillars of the season.
The English word Easter is unusual because most European languages use a name derived from which word?
Answer: Pascha, from the Hebrew for Passover It gives Pasqua in Italian, Paques in French and Pascua in Spanish.
Answer key
- Computus
- The Venerable Bede
- An ecclesiastical approximation rather than the astronomical moon
- Holy Saturday
- Pentecost
- France
- The United Kingdom
- The Russian imperial family
- Sprinkling or dousing people with water
- Forty days
- Lent
- The bilby
- Prayer, fasting and almsgiving
- Pascha, from the Hebrew for Passover
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