Easter Jeopardy

The Easter Bunny, egg traditions, sweets, Easter around the world, Holy Week and why the date moves, for a spring class or family. Free to copy, phone buzzers.

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Symbols

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This long-eared character is said to deliver eggs and candy.
Who is the Easter Bunny?
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This white, trumpet-shaped flower is a symbol of Easter.
What is the lily?
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The tradition of an egg-laying hare came to America with immigrants from this country.
What is Germany?
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The date of Easter is tied to this Jewish spring festival, which the Last Supper is often linked to.
What is Passover?
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This 8th-century English monk wrote that Easter took its name from Eostre, a goddess honored in spring.
Who is Bede?

Egg Traditions

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Children search yards and parks for hidden eggs in this activity.
What is an egg hunt?
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Held on Easter Monday, this White House lawn event dates back to 1878.
What is the Easter Egg Roll?
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These Ukrainian Easter eggs are decorated with beeswax and layers of dye.
What are pysanky?
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This jeweler's workshop made jeweled Easter eggs for the Russian tsars.
What is Fabergé?
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In Greek Orthodox tradition, Easter eggs are dyed this color.
What is red?

Sweets and Treats

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Just Born makes these marshmallow chicks and bunnies.
What are Peeps?
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This hollow chocolate animal is a classic basket treat.
What is a chocolate bunny?
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Marked with a cross on top, these spiced buns are traditionally eaten on Good Friday.
What are hot cross buns?
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Cadbury's chocolate egg with a fondant center made to look like a yolk.
What is the Creme Egg?
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This Italian Easter cake is baked in the shape of a dove.
What is the colomba?

Around the World

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Children in this country are told that eggs are brought by church bells flying back from Rome.
What is France?
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In Sweden and Finland, children dress up as these and go door to door for treats.
What are witches?
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Australia promotes this endangered marsupial as its Easter animal instead of the rabbit.
What is the bilby?
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On Easter Monday in Poland, people splash each other with this.
What is water?
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In Norway, Easter is the peak season for these, known as påskekrim.
What are crime novels?

Holy Week

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The Sunday before Easter, marked with branches, is called this.
What is Palm Sunday?
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The Thursday of Holy Week, remembering the Last Supper, is often called this.
What is Maundy Thursday?
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Christians mark the crucifixion on this day, two days before Easter.
What is Good Friday?
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This season of fasting and prayer runs about 40 days before Easter.
What is Lent?
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In Western churches, Lent begins on this day.
What is Ash Wednesday?

The Date of Easter

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Easter always falls on this day of the week.
What is Sunday?
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Western Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after this seasonal event.
What is the spring equinox?
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Western Easter can fall as early as March 22 or as late as this date.
What is April 25?
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The Council of Nicaea, which set out rules for dating Easter, met in this year.
What is 325?
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Most Orthodox churches still date Easter by this older calendar, so their Easter is often later.
What is the Julian calendar?

Final Jeopardy — Explorers

Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen named this Pacific island, famous for its giant stone moai, after the day he arrived in 1722.

What is Easter Island?

How to run this board

Easter trivia usually stops at bunnies and baskets, and this board goes a little further. Categories cover the symbols of the day, egg traditions from pysanky to the White House Egg Roll, the sweets in the basket, how Easter is kept around the world, the days of Holy Week, and why the date moves every year.

The Holy Week column describes the Christian observance plainly rather than preaching it, so the board sits comfortably in a public school class, a church youth group or a family table. The Around the World column is the one people remember: flying church bells in France, Easter witches in Sweden and crime novels in Norway.

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