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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