Eid al-Adha Trivia
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39 free Eid Al-Adha trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Eid al-Adha is the feast a fifth of humanity keeps together, and almost everywhere it keeps under a different name. The day turns on one story from the Quran, a father and a son who both submit, and on one act of giving: an animal offered and its meat shared out so that nobody goes without. This quiz covers the whole of it: what the Quran actually says and what tradition added, the dates and the lunar drift that moves them, the rules jurists set for the offering and how the portions are divided, the Eid morning from bath to homecoming, the fast on the day before, and the names, greetings, dishes and public holidays the feast has gathered from the Balkans to Borneo. It is written for players who grew up with the feast and want the reasons behind its customs, for classrooms and community quiz nights that need accurate questions, and for anyone curious about how one day is kept in so many ways. Every question cites the page that establishes its answer.
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Q 01Singapore's Hari Raya Haji fell twice in 2006; what lets one Gregorian year hold two?
Lunar years run 11 days short
Lunar years run 11 days short of solar ones, so Islamic dates creep earlier every year and a feast that falls in early January can come round again before December ends.
Q 02Which Caribbean nation gives Eid al-Fitr a public holiday but not Eid al-Adha?
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago has kept Eid al-Fitr as a national holiday since 1967, a day for serving sawine, a sweet milky vermicelli, while Eid al-Adha is not an official holiday there.
Q 03Which West African country, over 90% Muslim, calls Eid al-Adha Tabaski yet lines its capital with Christmas trees?
Senegal
Senegal is about 95% Muslim, yet Dakar's squares glow with Christmas lights each December, and one street seller of plastic trees there says his buyers are mostly Muslims.
Q 04Turkey's Feast of Sacrifice holiday runs four full days; what extra time off precedes them?
A half-day the afternoon before
A half-day the afternoon before, the arife, is written into Turkish law alongside the four full days, so offices empty at lunchtime on the eve of the feast.
Q 05Which Indian Ocean nation marks Eid al-Adha as Bodu Eid, a public holiday of several days?
The Maldives
The Maldives calls it Bodu Eid, the Big Eid, and islanders mark it with Bodu Mas, a mock hunt in which fishermen struggle to land a giant fish woven from coconut palm leaves.
Q 06Which alternative Arabic name for Eid al-Adha means 'Greater Eid'?
Eid al-Kabir
Eid al-Kabir, the Greater Eid, is generally considered the holier of the two feasts, coming as the pilgrimage to Mecca ends, which leaves Eid al-Fitr the name al-Eid al-Saghir, the Lesser Eid.
Q 07Which country, sighting its own crescent moon, began Eid al-Adha 2025 a day after Saudi Arabia, on 7 June?
Pakistan
Pakistan's moon-sighting committee met on 27 May 2025 and heard no report of a crescent from anywhere in the country, so its feast fell on 7 June; Egypt, Turkey and Indonesia kept it on the 6th.
Q 08By custom, Eid al-Adha meat is split three ways: the family, relatives and friends, and which other group?
The poor
The poor get the third share, and the butcher gets none of it as wages: Ali said Muhammad told him to hand out the meat and hides of the offerings in charity.
Q 09As Eid al-Adha begins, worshippers at Mina near Mecca throw pebbles at a wall marking where Abraham drove off whom?
Satan
Satan is said to have tried three times to talk Abraham and his family out of the sacrifice, so three walls at Mina are pelted with stones over the days of the feast.
Q 10Bakri Eid, a common Bangladeshi name for Eid al-Adha, literally means the Eid of which animal?
The goat
The goat is bakri in Bengali, Hindi and Urdu, though Platts's classic Urdu dictionary files the feast under baqar, the Arabic for ox or cow, as Baqar-Eid; Bangladeshis also say Korbanir Eid.
Q 11In Pakistan, which decoration do women traditionally apply to their hands for Eid al-Adha?
Henna
Henna goes on the night before the feast, and the morning brings Eidi, the money and gifts that elders hand to Pakistani children once the prayer is over.
Q 12Between which two points of the day must the Eid al-Adha prayer fall, which keeps it a morning congregation?
Sunrise and midday
Sunrise and midday bound the window, which opens once the sun stands a spear's height above the horizon; Muhammad is reported to have prayed Eid al-Adha at one spear and Eid al-Fitr at two.
Q 13The five daily prayers and Friday worship all begin with which element that the Eid prayer does without?
The call to prayer
Q 21Which Shia holiday falls on 18 Dhu al-Hijjah, eight days after Eid al-Adha?
Eid al-Ghadir
Eid al-Ghadir marks Muhammad's address at the pool of Ghadir Khumm on the way home from his final pilgrimage, which Shia Muslims read as naming Ali his successor.
Q 22The Arabic word for the Eid al-Adha offering, a cousin of the Hebrew korban, comes from a root meaning what?
Closeness
Closeness is the sense of the root q-r-b, attested as far back as Akkadian: the offering is what brings the giver near to God, and the same root gives Greek villagers their kourbania.
Q 23In the account Ibn Kathir relays of the first offering, what did Abel give while his brother Cain gave crops?
A sheep
The call to prayer is dropped: Jabir and Ibn Abbas both reported no adhan at either Eid, Jabir told Ata there was no iqamah or call of any kind, and Muhammad simply stood up and began.
Q 14Which part of Eid worship follows the prayer, reversing the order mosques keep every Friday?
The sermon
The sermon follows the Eid prayer, and when the governor Marwan mounted the pulpit first because crowds would not stay to listen, the companion Abu Sa'id tugged at his robe in protest.
Q 15Which phrase does the Eid prayer add seven extra times in its first rak'ah and five in its second?
Allahu akbar
Allahu akbar, the takbir, comes seven extra times before the recital in the first rak'ah and five in the second in most schools, while one school adds just three in each.
Q 16Why is the Eid al-Adha prayer traditionally held earlier than the Eid al-Fitr prayer?
To leave time for the offering
To leave time for the offering, which follows the prayer, Eid al-Adha is prayed early, whereas Eid al-Fitr is delayed so that Zakat al-Fitr can be handed out beforehand.
Q 17Eid al-Fitr begins with breakfast before setting out; when does the sunnah say to first eat on Eid al-Adha?
Only after the prayer
Only after the prayer, traditionally from the meat of one's own offering, does the first meal come on Eid al-Adha, whereas on Eid al-Fitr the sunnah is to eat, classically dates, before setting out.
Q 18Which sunnah of the Eid morning concerns the way home from the prayer ground?
Taking a different route
Taking a different route home was Muhammad's habit, reported by Jabir and Abu Hurairah, yet one companion recalled going and returning through the same valley, so jurists call it preferred, not required.
Q 19Fasting on the Day of Arafah, the eve of Eid al-Adha, is said to expiate the sins of how many years?
Two
Two years — the one past and the one to come — is what Muhammad said he hoped the Arafah fast would atone for when a man asked how he fasted; for Ashura he named a single year.
Q 20For which group is fasting on the Day of Arafah discouraged rather than recommended?
Hajj pilgrims
Hajj pilgrims are spared the fast because the standing at Arafat from noon to sunset is demanding enough, and Muhammad did not fast while he stood there in supplication.
A sheep was Abel's offering in the account Ibn Kathir relays, and it was accepted where Cain's produce was not, the slight that drove Cain to kill his brother.
Q 24Which term do Islamic jurists use for the Eid al-Adha offering itself?
Udhiyah
Udhiyah shares its Arabic root with the Adha of Eid al-Adha, a collective word for sacrificial animals, so the feast is literally named for these offerings.
Q 25From the new moon of Dhu al-Hijjah until the Eid offering is made, what is someone planning a sacrifice told to avoid?
Cutting hair or nails
Cutting hair or nails waits until the animal is offered, though jurists differ on how firmly: some call it forbidden, most only disliked, and a slip costs nothing beyond asking forgiveness.
Q 26Which school of Islamic law alone counts the Eid al-Adha offering as wajib for every financially able resident?
Hanafi
Hanafi jurists rank it wajib, while the majority call it a confirmed sunnah, citing reports that Abu Bakr and Umar sometimes skipped the offering so that no one would think it a duty.
Q 27As Jabir recalled from the year of Hudaybiyyah, a camel or cow offered at Eid may be shared by how many people?
Seven
Seven is the share limit set by Muhammad's own practice, when the companions offered a camel for seven and a cow for seven, while a smaller animal counts for a single household.
Q 28A hadith on the three Tashriq days that follow Eid al-Adha calls them days of what?
Eating and drinking
Eating and drinking — and remembering God, the chapter heading adds — fill the three days after the feast, when offerings continue and fasting is prohibited.
Q 29Which Minangkabau beef dish, slow-cooked in coconut milk, is served across the Malay world at Hari Raya, both Eids?
Rendang
Rendang topped a 2011 CNN readers' poll of the world's most delicious foods, and its hours of slow cooking began as a way to keep meat for weeks without refrigeration.
Q 30In Surah As-Saffat, how does Abraham learn he must offer up his son?
In a dream
In a dream — 'I have seen in a dream that I must sacrifice you' — and early commentators explained why he acted on it: the dreams of prophets count as revelation.