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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 01How many days does April have?
30
It is one of four 30-day months, alongside June, September and November.
Q 02Which position does April hold in the modern calendar year?
Fourth
In the earliest Roman calendar, which started in March, it was the second month.
Q 03One theory says April's Latin name, Aprilis, comes from the verb aperire. What does aperire mean?
To open
The idea is that buds and blossoms 'open' in April; a rival theory ties the name to Aphrodite, goddess of love.
Q 04In the earliest Roman calendar, which began the year in March, what number month was April?
Second
January and February were tacked on around 700 BC, pushing April to fourth place by about 450 BC.
Q 05What is April's birthstone?
Diamond
Its name comes from the Greek adamas, 'unbreakable', and it is the hardest natural material known.
Q 06Which two blooms serve as April's birth flower?
Daisy and sweet pea
The word daisy is thought to be a worn-down 'day's eye', because the flower closes at night and opens each morning.
Q 07The flower name 'daisy' is thought to be a corruption of which Old English phrase?
Day's eye
The flower head shuts at night and reopens with the sun, so the name fits.
Q 08Someone born on 10 April falls under which zodiac sign?
Aries
Aries, the ram, runs until about 19 April; Taurus, the bull, takes over from the 20th.
Q 09Aries, the zodiac sign covering most of April, is represented by which animal?
Ram
It is the first sign of the zodiac and is ruled by Mars; the ram is the golden-fleeced Chrysomallus of Greek myth.
Q 10What did the Anglo-Saxons call the month we know as April?
Ēastre-monaþ
The name is linked to Ēostre, the goddess (or festival) that also gave English the word Easter.
Q 11Earth Day is celebrated every year on which date?
22 April
The first one, in 1970, drew about 20 million Americans; on Earth Day 2016 leaders of 175 nations signed the Paris climate agreement.
Q 12Which US senator founded the first Earth Day in 1970?
Gaylord Nelson
Ad man Julian Koenig came up with the name; the organisers had been calling it a 'teach-in'.
Q 13The first American Arbor Day, on 10 April 1872, took place in which state?
Nebraska
An estimated one million trees went in the ground that day; the US now marks National Arbor Day on the last Friday of April.
Q 21Golf's Masters Tournament, played in the first full week of April, is always held at which club?
Augusta National
The winner has been handed a green jacket since 1949; Jack Nicklaus won a record six.
Q 22Which US president started the tradition of throwing the ceremonial first pitch on Opening Day, in 1910?
William Howard Taft
The Cincinnati Reds are the only club scheduled to open every season at home.
Q 23Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space on 12 April of which year?
1961
Vostok 1 made one orbit in 108 minutes; 12 April is now Cosmonautics Day in Russia and 'Yuri's Night' worldwide.
Q 14On what date in April 1912 did the Titanic sink, having struck the iceberg late on the 14th?
15th
She went under at 2:20 am, two hours and forty minutes after the collision, with lifeboats for barely half the people aboard.
Q 15Roughly how many people died when the Titanic sank in April 1912?
1,500
About 710 survivors were picked up by the Carpathia around 90 minutes after the ship went down.
Q 16Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre on 14 April 1865. What play was he watching?
Our American Cousin
It was Good Friday, five days after Lee's surrender; Lincoln died the next morning in the Petersen House across the street.
Q 17Robert E. Lee surrendered to Grant on 9 April 1865 in which Virginia village?
Appomattox Court House
The meeting was in Wilmer McLean's parlour; Grant let the Confederates keep their horses and sent them food.
Q 18The Civil War began on 12 April 1861 with a bombardment of which federal fort in Charleston Harbor?
Sumter
Remarkably, the 34-hour bombardment killed nobody; the first two deaths came from an accidental explosion during the surrender salute.
Q 19The Battles of Lexington and Concord were fought on 19 April of which year?
1775
Paul Revere and William Dawes had ridden out the night before; Emerson later called Concord's first volley 'the shot heard round the world'.
Q 20The Boston Marathon is run each April on Patriots' Day, which falls on which day of the week?
Monday
First run in 1897, it is the world's oldest annual marathon; Kathrine Switzer became the first woman to finish with an official number in 1967.
Q 24Exactly 20 years after Gagarin's flight, on 12 April 1981, which spacecraft made its first launch?
Space Shuttle Columbia
The anniversary was a coincidence: a computer glitch had pushed the launch back two days.
Q 25Apollo 13, launched 11 April 1970, was crippled two days later when what exploded?
An oxygen tank
The crew rode the lunar module home as a lifeboat and splashed down safely on 17 April.
Q 26The Hubble Space Telescope was launched on 24 April 1990 aboard which Space Shuttle?
Discovery
Its main mirror turned out to be ground slightly wrong; astronauts fitted corrective optics in 1993.
Q 27The Chernobyl nuclear disaster happened on 26 April 1986 in which Soviet republic?
Ukraine
Reactor No. 4 exploded near the town of Pripyat; an exclusion zone was set up within 36 hours and later widened to 30 km.
Q 28The most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded history peaked on 10 April 1815. Which volcano?
Mount Tambora
Its ash chilled the whole planet, and 1816 became known as the Year Without a Summer.
Q 29The great San Francisco earthquake struck at 5:12 am on 18 April of which year?
1906
Fires burned for four days and destroyed more than 80 percent of the city; it remains the deadliest earthquake in US history.
Q 30Shakespeare's birthday is celebrated on 23 April, the feast day of which patron saint of England?
George
Nobody knows the true date: he was baptised on 26 April 1564, and he died on 23 April 1616.