April Trivia
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183 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 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
April is the fourth month of the modern Gregorian calendar, following January, February and March.
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, 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
April's birth flowers are the daisy and the sweet pea; the common daisy, Bellis perennis, belongs to the aster family.
Q 07The flower name 'daisy' is thought to be a corruption of which Old English phrase?
Day's eye
Day's eye fits because the flower head shuts at night and reopens with the sun.
Q 08Someone born on 10 April falls under which zodiac sign?
Aries
Aries, the first sign of the zodiac, covers late March and most of April, so 10 April falls under Aries rather than Taurus.
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
Ēastre-monaþ, 'Easter month', was the Anglo-Saxon name for April, linked to the goddess Ēostre whose name also gave English the word Easter.
Q 11Earth Day is celebrated every year on which date?
22 April
Earth Day falls on 22 April; the first, in 1970, drew about 20 million Americans, and on 22 April 2016 representatives of 175 nations signed the Paris climate agreement.
Q 12Which US senator founded the first Earth Day in 1970?
Gaylord Nelson
Wisconsin senator Gaylord Nelson conceived Earth Day as a nationwide environmental teach-in; adman Julian Koenig supplied the name and Denis Hayes coordinated the 1970 events.
Q 13The first American Arbor Day, on 10 April 1872, took place in which state?
Nebraska
Nebraska held the first Arbor Day on 10 April 1872, championed by journalist J. Sterling Morton; an estimated one million trees were planted across the state that day.
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 out the first ball on 14 April 1910 at Washington's National Park, after which Walter Johnson pitched a one-hitter against Philadelphia.
Q 22Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space on 12 April of which year?
1961
Gagarin orbited Earth once aboard Vostok 1 on 12 April 1961, a 108-minute flight; Russia marks the date as Cosmonautics Day.
Q 23Exactly 20 years after Gagarin's flight, on 12 April 1981, which spacecraft made its first launch?
Space Shuttle Columbia
Q 14Roughly how many people died when the Titanic sank in April 1912?
1,500
About 1,500 of the roughly 2,200 people aboard died; the Carpathia reached the scene around 4 am and picked up only about 710 survivors.
Q 15Abraham 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 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
Fort Sumter's 34-hour bombardment killed nobody; the first deaths, including Private Daniel Hough, came from an accidental explosion during the surrender salute on 14 April.
Q 18The Battles of Lexington and Concord were fought on 19 April of which year?
1775
The fighting on 19 April 1775 opened the Revolutionary War; Emerson's Concord Hymn later called the militia's first volley 'the shot heard round the world'.
Q 19The Boston Marathon is run each April on Patriots' Day, which falls on which day of the week?
Monday
Patriots' Day is Massachusetts's third-Monday-of-April holiday, so the Boston Marathon is run on a Monday; it is the world's oldest annual marathon.
Q 20Golf's Masters Tournament, played in the first full week of April, is always held at which club?
Augusta National
Augusta National's winner has been handed a green jacket since 1949; Jack Nicklaus won a record six.
Space Shuttle Columbia's anniversary launch was a coincidence: a computer glitch had pushed it back two days. John Young and Robert Crippen flew STS-1.
Q 24Apollo 13, launched 11 April 1970, was crippled two days later when what exploded?
An oxygen tank
An oxygen tank in the service module burst after damaged heater wiring shorted; the crew used the lunar module Aquarius as a lifeboat and splashed down safely on 17 April.
Q 25The Hubble Space Telescope was launched on 24 April 1990 aboard which Space Shuttle?
Discovery
Discovery carried Hubble aloft on mission STS-31; the telescope's main mirror proved slightly misground, and Endeavour's crew fitted corrective optics in December 1993.
Q 26The 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 27The 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 28The great San Francisco earthquake struck at 5:12 am on 18 April of which year?
1906
The 1906 quake struck at 5:12 am on 18 April; fires burned for three days, destroyed about 80 percent of San Francisco and killed an estimated 3,000 people.
Q 29Shakespeare's birthday is celebrated on 23 April, the feast day of which patron saint of England?
George
George, England's patron saint, has his feast on 23 April; tradition assigns Shakespeare's birthday to the same date, and he died on 23 April 1616.
Q 30On 23 April, the Diada de Sant Jordi, people in Catalonia traditionally exchange which two gifts?
Books and roses
Books and roses are the Sant Jordi gifts, a rose for love and a book for culture; Catalonia sold about 1.5 million books on the day in 2015, and UNESCO chose the date for World Book Day.