April Trivia
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182 free April trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
51 free April trivia questions with answers. These April trivia facts cover the month from every angle: where the name comes from and why April used to be the second month of the year, the diamond and the daisy that serve as its symbols, and the zodiac split between Aries and Taurus. Then the questions run through the calendar: Earth Day and Arbor Day, Easter and Passover, Songkran's water fights, Vaisakhi, ANZAC Day, King's Day in the Netherlands and the bonfires of Walpurgis Night. April has also been a big month for history, and the quiz asks about the Titanic, Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, Fort Sumter and Appomattox, Gagarin's flight and the first Space Shuttle launch on the same date twenty years apart, Apollo 13, Hubble, Chernobyl, Tambora and the San Francisco earthquake. There is room for the Masters, the Boston Marathon and Coachella too. About a third of the questions are easy enough for a classroom morning meeting or a family dinner, a third are medium, and the rest will stump people who think they know their calendar. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia and official sources, and each question shows the sentence that confirms it once you have answered.
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Q 01Besides April, three months have exactly 30 days; which of these is one of them?
November
November: like April it had only 29 days in the old Roman calendar, until the reform of 46 BC handed each of the four short months a thirtieth.
Q 02In the United States, what is normally due on 15 April each year?
Federal income tax returns
Federal income tax returns were due six weeks earlier when the tax began in 1913; the deadline was pushed back twice, reaching 15 April in the 1950s, and still slips to the next working day when the 15th lands on a weekend or holiday.
Q 03The Latin verb aperire, one proposed root of April's name Aprilis, means what?
To open
To open: the old idea is that buds and blossoms open in April, though the name's origin is uncertain and some scholars trace it to Aphrodite through the Etruscan Apru instead.
Q 04In the earliest Roman calendar, what number month was April?
Second
April was the second month, because the earliest Roman calendar began in March; January and February were added around 700 BC, later pushing April to fourth.
Q 05What is April's birthstone?
Diamond
Diamond is April's birthstone; its name comes from the Greek adamas, 'unbreakable', and it is the hardest known natural material.
Q 06Which two blooms serve as April's birth flower?
Daisy and sweet pea
Daisy and sweet pea: a daisy is not one flower but a crowd, each head packing a ring of white ray flowers around a centre of many tiny yellow ones.
Q 07The flower name 'daisy' comes from an Old English phrase meaning what?
Day's eye
Day's eye, dæges ēage in Old English, fits because the flower head closes at dusk and opens again at dawn.
Q 08Whose career home run record did Hank Aaron break with his 715th on 8 April 1974?
Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth's record of 714 had stood since 1935; Aaron passed it in Atlanta after enduring racist death threats as he closed in on the mark.
Q 09Aries, the zodiac sign covering most of April, is represented by which animal?
Ram
Ram: Greek myth made it the golden-fleeced ram that carried Phrixus to safety in Colchis, where its fleece became the prize Jason and the Argonauts later sailed to win.
Q 10What did the Anglo-Saxons call the month we know as April?
Ēastre-monaþ
Ēastre-monaþ, 'Easter month': one early medieval scholar wrote that it honoured a goddess, Ēostre, and that English Christians kept her name for their own spring festival.
Q 11Which environmental observance falls on 22 April each year?
Earth Day
Earth Day: Senator Gaylord Nelson's organisers picked a weekday between spring break and final exams so that students could turn out, and some 20 million Americans joined the first one in 1970.
Q 12The land run of 22 April 1889 opened part of which future US state to settlers?
Oklahoma
Oklahoma: about 50,000 people raced for claims when the signal came, and those who had slipped in early to hide on the best plots were branded sooners.
Q 13The first American Arbor Day, in 1872, set out to put trees on the plains of which state?
Nebraska
Nebraska planted an estimated one million trees that first day, 10 April 1872, after newspaper editor J. Sterling Morton urged settlers to raise windbreaks, fuel and shade on the open prairie.
Q 21Which US president started the tradition of throwing the ceremonial first pitch on Opening Day, in 1910?
William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft threw the ball from his seat in the stands to Washington's pitcher, Walter Johnson, who beat Philadelphia 3–0 that day and got the president to sign the ball.
Q 22Which cosmonaut became the first human in space on 12 April 1961?
Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Gagarin circled Earth once aboard Vostok 1 but did not land in it: he ejected about 7 km up and came down under his own parachute.
Q 23Exactly 20 years after the first human spaceflight, on 12 April 1981, which spacecraft made its first launch?
Space Shuttle Columbia
Q 14Which shipping line owned the Titanic, lost on 15 April 1912?
White Star
White Star Line ordered the Titanic and her sisters to answer rival Cunard's record-breaking Lusitania and Mauretania, betting on size and comfort where Cunard had speed.
Q 15Which play was Abraham Lincoln watching at Ford's Theatre when he was shot on 14 April 1865?
Our American Cousin
Our American Cousin: Booth, an actor who knew the comedy well, timed his shot to a line that reliably drew a roar of laughter.
Q 16Robert E. Lee surrendered to Grant on 9 April 1865 in which Virginia village?
Appomattox Court House
Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House, in Wilmer McLean's parlour; Grant let the Confederates keep their horses and sent rations to the hungry army.
Q 17The Civil War began on 12 April 1861 with a bombardment of which federal fort in Charleston Harbor?
Sumter
Sumter: the bombardment killed nobody on either side; the first deaths, among them Private Daniel Hough, came when a cannon misfired during the garrison's surrender salute.
Q 18Who rode out on 18 April 1775 to warn that British troops were marching?
Paul Revere
Paul Revere reached Lexington, but a British patrol stopped him on the road to Concord; a doctor, Samuel Prescott, carried the alarm on, and the fighting began on Lexington green the next morning.
Q 19The Boston Marathon is run each April on Patriots' Day, which falls on which day of the week?
Monday
Monday: Patriots' Day was fixed on 19 April until 1969, when Massachusetts moved the holiday to the third Monday of the month and the marathon moved with it.
Q 20Golf's Masters Tournament, played in the first full week of April, is always held at which club?
Augusta National
Augusta National: the other three men's majors move from course to course, but the Masters has never left the Georgia club where Bobby Jones started it in 1934.
Space Shuttle Columbia was due up two days earlier; a computer timing fault scrubbed that attempt, so John Young and Robert Crippen reached orbit on the anniversary by accident.
Q 24Apollo 13, launched 11 April 1970, was crippled two days later when what exploded?
An oxygen tank
An oxygen tank blew when wiring inside it, scorched during a ground test, sparked as the tank was stirred; the crew rode home using the lunar module Aquarius as a lifeboat.
Q 25A flaw in what blurred the first images from Hubble, launched on 24 April 1990?
Main mirror
Its main mirror had been ground slightly too flat towards the edge; in December 1993 astronauts aboard the shuttle Endeavour fitted corrective optics that worked like a pair of glasses.
Q 26The Chernobyl nuclear disaster happened on 26 April 1986 in which Soviet republic?
Ukraine
Ukraine: Reactor No. 4 blew apart during a test of its safety systems, and the whole town of Pripyat, built for the plant's workers, was evacuated the following day.
Q 27Which volcano's 1815 eruption, the most powerful in recorded history, peaked on 10 April?
Mount Tambora
Mount Tambora's ash and haze dimmed the sun worldwide, and 1816 became the Year Without a Summer, with summer frosts in New England and failed harvests across Europe.
Q 28After the earthquake of 18 April 1906, what did most of the damage to San Francisco?
Fires
Fires: the quake shattered the city's water pipes, so some thirty blazes burned unchecked for three days and levelled about 500 blocks.
Q 29Shakespeare's birthday is celebrated on 23 April, the feast day of which patron saint of England?
George
George: tradition makes him a Roman soldier beheaded for his faith in 303 and buried at Lydda in Palestine, far from the England that adopted him; Shakespeare died on his feast day in 1616.
Q 30On 23 April each year, people in Catalonia traditionally exchange which two gifts?
Books and roses
Books and roses: the rose fair is centuries old, and books joined it around 1930, when Spain's booksellers moved their book day to 23 April; UNESCO later made the date World Book Day.