Easter Trivia for Kids
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95 free Easter Trivia for Kids trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Easter trivia for kids quiz is written for children roughly six to twelve, and for the grown-ups running an Easter party, a classroom game or a long car ride. Every question is easy enough for a child to have a fair shot at, and every topic is kid-safe: the Easter Bunny and where he came from, egg hunts and egg rolls, chocolate eggs and jelly beans, Peeps, hot cross buns, baby chicks, bunnies, lambs and butterflies, the first day of spring, and the giant egg roll on the White House lawn. If you want the grown-up version with dates, history and world traditions, our main Easter trivia quiz is the one to play. The questions start very easy (what animal brings the eggs, what a baby chicken is called, what a chocolate bunny is usually filled with) and get a little trickier for older kids and parents (which president started the White House Egg Roll, how many Peeps colours came first, what Australia's Easter animal is). Nothing needs to be memorised in advance; a lot of it can be worked out. Every answer was checked against the encyclopaedia entry for the subject before publishing, and the sentence that supports it is stored with each question.
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Q 01What is the Sunday before Easter called?
Palm Sunday
Palm Sunday recalls crowds waving palm branches as Jesus entered Jerusalem; where palms won't grow, churches hand out willow, olive, box or yew twigs instead.
Q 02The Easter Bunny story first came from which country?
Germany
Germany is where the egg-laying Easter Hare began; settlers carried the tale to America in the 1700s, and there the hare turned into a bunny.
Q 03Long ago, the Easter Hare had the same job as which other holiday visitor?
Santa Claus
Santa Claus keeps a naughty-or-nice list, and the original Easter Hare did the same job: it judged whether children had been good, and only the well-behaved found coloured eggs in their nests.
Q 04Besides eggs, what else does the Easter Bunny bring to children?
Candy and toys
Candy and toys came later: the original Easter Hare left only coloured eggs, and the sweets and gifts were added as the custom spread across America.
Q 05What is the week leading up to Easter called?
Holy Week
Holy Week follows the last days of Jesus's life, and older Greek and Roman service books call it the Great Week because of the great deeds they say were done in it.
Q 06What do children usually collect their eggs in during an Easter egg hunt?
A basket
A basket took over from the nests that children once built for the Easter Hare to lay its coloured eggs in.
Q 07Which famous person, some believe, organised the first Easter egg hunts?
Martin Luther
Martin Luther is said to have suggested that men hide eggs in the garden for their wives and children to find, the garden standing for the one where Jesus was buried.
Q 08Some Christians say rolling Easter eggs recalls which part of the Easter story?
The stone moved from the tomb
The stone moved from the tomb on Easter morning is what a rolling egg is said to recall, though at the White House, home of the best-known egg roll, it is simply a game.
Q 09Which British name for rolling eggs down grassy hills comes from an old word for Easter?
Pace-egging
Pace-egging also covers the 'pace-eggers', costumed players who paraded the streets singing and acting out folk plays in return for eggs and money.
Q 10According to an old Lancashire legend, what would witches do with broken eggshells?
Use them as boats
Legend said witches would steal the broken shells and use them as boats, so the shells had to be crushed up carefully after the egg roll.
Q 11How were eggs traditionally coloured for rolling in England?
Boiled with onion skins
Boiled with onion skins wrapped around them, the eggs came out a mottled gold; today most are simply painted.
Q 12What keepsake has each child taken home from the White House Easter Egg Roll since 1981?
A wooden egg
A wooden egg has gone home with each child since 1981, when the first ones were hidden for a hunt and carried the autographs of actors, athletes and politicians.
Q 13What do children push their eggs with at the White House Egg Roll?
A long-handled spoon
A long-handled spoon became the racing tool in 1974, when the first egg-rolling races used serving spoons borrowed from the White House kitchen.
Q 21Eggs are an old symbol of what?
New life
New life is the egg's ancient meaning: the shell looks as lifeless as a stone, yet a living creature is sealed inside.
Q 22The chocolate in an Easter egg is made from the seeds of which tree?
Cacao
Cacao pods each hold 20 to 60 seeds, and the tree relies on tiny flies called midges to pollinate its flowers: no midges, no chocolate.
Q 23How old are the oldest decorated eggs found in Africa?
60,000 years
60,000 years is the age of engraved eggshell pieces from Diepkloof Rock Shelter in South Africa, where Stone Age people used the shells as containers and scratched line patterns into them.
Q 14Which president brought the Egg Roll to the White House lawn in 1878?
Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes agreed after young egg rollers stopped him on his walk to ask if they could use his lawn, as Congress had just shut them out of the Capitol grounds.
Q 15Why did Congress ban egg rolling at the Capitol in 1876?
It wrecked the lawn
It wrecked the lawn: after a wild egg roll in 1876, Congress passed a law to protect its turf and barred children from using the Capitol grounds as a playground.
Q 16Which first lady is said in legend to have started Washington's Easter egg roll?
Dolley Madison
Dolley Madison gets the credit only in legend; what is on record is that in 1814 she had George Washington's portrait rescued from the White House before British troops burned it.
Q 17What is the Thursday before Easter, remembering the Last Supper, called?
Maundy Thursday
Maundy Thursday recalls Jesus washing his followers' feet at the Last Supper, an act English kings and queens once copied by washing the feet of the poor.
Q 18What is another name for a decorated Easter egg?
Paschal egg
Paschal egg uses Pascha, the Greek and Latin name for Easter, which is tied to the Hebrew Pesach, Passover; nearly all of English's neighbour languages name the holiday from that root.
Q 19What is the oldest way of making an Easter egg?
Dyeing and painting a hen's egg
Dyeing and painting a hen's egg is the oldest kind of Easter egg; one explanation is that eggs were forbidden during Lent, so people decorated them to celebrate the end of the fast.
Q 20What colour did early Christians traditionally dye Easter eggs?
Red
Early Christians in Mesopotamia stained eggs red in memory of the blood of Christ, a custom kept by Orthodox Christians.
Q 24In which country do boys tap girls with braided willow switches on Easter Monday?
Czech Republic
Czech Republic tradition has boys braid a willow whip called a pomlázka and tap girls with it, a custom said to pass on health and youth for the year; the girls reward them with decorated eggs.
Q 25Which country's beautifully patterned wax-decorated eggs are called pysanky?
Ukraine
Ukraine's pysanky are made by drawing patterns on the shell in wax, dipping the egg in dye and repeating; in 2024 the craft joined UNESCO's list of living heritage.
Q 26In Poland, decorated eggs are shared at the family table before which meal?
Easter Sunday breakfast
Polish families share blessed decorated eggs before Easter Sunday breakfast, a sign of friendship like sharing the Christmas wafer.
Q 27In the game of egg tapping, what is each contestant trying to do?
Crack the other player's egg
Crack the other player's egg while keeping your own whole: contestants knock boiled eggs together end to end, and whoever holds the last unbroken egg wins.
Q 28In Sweden, what colourful decoration is tied to birch twigs at Easter?
Feathers
Feathers in bright colours are tied to birch twigs in a vase; the twigs recall an old custom of switching one another with birch on Good Friday as a reminder of Jesus's suffering.
Q 29In the traditional Easter egg dance, with eggs lying on the floor, what is the dancers' goal?
Not to break any
Not to break any is the whole aim; a 1552 painting in Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum shows a harder version, in which the dancer must also trap an egg under a wooden bowl inside a chalk circle.
Q 30Mardi Gras, the French name for the last day before Lent, means what in English?
Fat Tuesday
Fat Tuesday was the last chance to use up the eggs, fat and other rich foods that were off the table once Lent began.