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44. What is the record for most yolks ever found in a chicken's egg?

six

nine

twelve

45. Psysanka is a traditional way of painting Easter Eggs. In which country does Pysanka originate from?

Hungary

Ukraine

Estonia

Faberge

Da Vinci

Cartier

46. Who was famous for creating beautiful, ornate expensive eggs?

47. In which country do people paint their eggs red at Easter?

Greece

Spain

Poland

48. Flaouna is a food traditionally eaten on Easter Sunday on which island in the Mediterranean Sea?

Sicily

Cyprus

Crete

49. The popular dish ‘angelino' is eaten at Easter each year in Italy, but what is it?

roasted lamb

roasted ham

roasted beef

50. The hummingbird lays the smallest egg of all living birds and the ostrich lays the biggest, but which now-

extinct bird laid the biggest known egg ever?

Great Auk

Great Elephant Bird

Kangaroo Island Emu

51. The picture of which animal is stamped on British eggs as a mark of quality?

chicken

lion

fox

52. In Italy chocolate Easter eggs, made by professional chocolatiers are usually made with these inside.

a figure of Christ

chocolate truffles

a small present or trinket

53. When is World Egg Day?

1st Thursday in April

2nd Friday in October

3rd Tuesday in December

54. Which is the most popular chocolate egg?

Kinder egg

Cadbury’s Creme Egg

Cadbury’s mini eggs

55. Who wrote the story Green Eggs and Ham?

Roald Dahl

Michael Rosen

Dr Seuss

56. Who wrote the play A Day in the Death of Joe Egg?

Peter Nichols

Nicholas Peterson

Peter Nicholson

57. What is the name of the March Hare in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass?

Haigha

Hair

Harey

58. Who wrote Watership Down, a story about rabbits?

Richard Adams

J.R.R. Tolkien

Kenneth Grahame

59. Which 19th Century clergyman, professor and writer wrote the poem Easter Week?

Robert Southey

Samuel Laycock

Charles Kingsley

See the land, her Easter keeping,Rises as her Maker rose.Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping,Burst at last from winter snows.Earth with heaven above rejoices;Fields and gardens hail the spring;Shaughs and woodlands ring with voices,While the wild birds build and sing.

You, to whom your Maker granted Powers to those sweet birds unknown, Use the craft by God implanted; Use the reason not your own. Here, while heaven and earth rejoices, Each his Easter tribute bring-Work of fingers, chant of voices, Like the birds who build and sing.

60. Who wrote the story The Golden Egg?

Hans Christian Anderson

Aesop

The Brothers Grimm

61. What sort of animal laid the golden egg?

a goose

a chicken

a serpent

62. Some people think that the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty is really about a King. Which king?

Henry I

Richard III

Henry VI

63. In Charlotte’s web, after Charlotte dies, who takes her egg sac containing 514 spider babies, back to the

Zuckerman farm so he can look after them?

William

Wilmer

Wilbur

64. In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, from what type of magical creature does Harry have to steal a golden egg

in the first triwizard challenge?

phoenix

cockatrice

dragon

65. In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets what colour are phoenix eggs?

orange and pink

green and blue

red and yellow

66. What was the name for a type of divination that involved cracking open eggs and observing which way the yolks fell, popular with Ravenclaw students at Hogwarts?

ovotion

ovology

ovomancy

67. What was Professor Mordicus Egg an expert on?

Quidditch

Muggles

Ovomancy

68. In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban who described Lily Potter as a bad egg?

Marjorie Dursley

Vernon Dursley

Petunia DursleyLily Potter’s a

bad egg.

69. In the Harry Potter series what does an Ashwinder egg contain?

a phoenix

a serpent

a dragon

70. In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Molly Weasleysent Easter eggs with her son Percy's letter for Harry, Ron,

and Hermione. Why was Hermoine disappointed with hers?

It was smaller than Harry and Ron’s egg.

It was crushed and inedible.

It was a hen’s egg, not a chocolate egg.

71. Which fictional detective, known for his very distinctive appearance, was described by his author as

having a head-shaped exactly like an egg?

Dirk Gently

Hercule Poirot

Sherlock Holmes

72. Who wrote Indiana Jones and the Dinosaur Eggs?

Philip Reeve

Max McCoy

Ray Bradbury

73. What is the name of the short story written by H. G. Wells in 1897 which is considered to be a forerunner to his

epic ‘The War of the Worlds’?

The Crystal Egg

The Martian Egg

The Golden Egg

74. The traditional dish of eggs benedict consists of a muffin topped with eggs cooked by which of these

methods?

fried

boiled

poached

75. What does the name Golgotha mean?

hill of death

high place

place of the skull

76. Easter is thought to have got its name from an Anglo-Saxon Goddess Eastre. What was she the goddess of?

fertility

spring and new life

rabbits

77. Where does the Easter bunny have its origins?

Pagan fertility symbol

Christian symbol of life

German folklore

Pacific

Atlantic

Indian

78. In which ocean is Easter Island?

Australia

Chile

Brazil

79. Easter Island is the territory of which country?

Nuobuo

Timpini

Rongorongo

80. What is the name for the hieroglyphic writing found on Easter Island?

81. Which famous artist painted this picture of the Last Supper?

Michelangelo

Leonardo da Vinci

Raphael

82. Who ordered 450 gold-leafed eggs for Easter gifts in 1290?

King Edward I

King Edward II

King Henry I

83. When was the first official Easter egg roll held at the White House?

1867

1876

1878

84. The word maundy in Maundy Thursday comes from the Latin word mandatum but what does it mean?

mourn

commandment

supper

85. James II, was the last monarch to do what for the poor on Maundy Thursday, an act performed by Jesus?

wash their feet

give them bread

give them wine

86. In what US state would you find the Chocolate Mountains?

Pennsylvania

California

Colorado

87. What colour would your egg turn out if you dyed it using red cabbage?

red

pink

blue

88. Purple is one of the colours associated with Easter. In ancient times how did people die garments purple?

crushed shellfish

grapes

elderberries

Part I

Part II

Part III

89. Which of the three sections of Handel's famous Messiah deals with the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of

Christ?

90. Which of these 19th century Russian composers wrote the Russian Easter Overture?

Alexander Borodin

Mikhail Glinka

Rimsky Korsakov

91. What is the earliest possible date for Easter Sunday?

19th March

22nd March

25th March

92. What is the latest possible date for Easter Sunday?

25th April

26th April

27th April

93. Holi, a spring festival dedicated to the god of pleasure, is celebrated on the day after the full moon in early March

every year by people of which religion?

Sikhism

Hinduism

Buddhism

94. Who co-starred with Fred Astaire in the film 'Easter Parade' in 1948?

Ginger Rogers

Judy Garland

Audrey Hepburn

95. On which continent can over fifty percent of the world's rabbits be found?

North America

Australia

Europe

96. Which of these is the rabbit's most highly developed sense?

sight

smell

hearing

97. Rabbits have four toes on each of their hind feet, but five on each of their front ones. What is this extra toe called?

clawdew

foreclaw

dewclaw

98. How does a rabbit warn other rabbits in the warren of danger?

thumping on the ground

high pitched squeals

by jumping up in the air

99. Where does the expression as ‘mad as a March hare’ come from?

Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’

The hare boxing and jumping at spring time.

The effect of pollen on the hare in the spring.

100. Why does Easter fall on a different day each year?

It is on the first Sunday after the March full moon.

The pope decides what day it should be on.

It is forty days after Shrove Tuesday.

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