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69 free Easter Bunny trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
50 free Easter Bunny trivia questions with answers. Hop into the world of Easter with our engaging Easter Bunny trivia quiz! Test your knowledge about the history, legends, and fun facts surrounding this beloved holiday icon. Whether you're an Easter enthusiast or just curious about the traditions, this quiz will entertain and educate you.
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Q 01The foil-wrapped Gold Bunny, sold since 1952, is made by a chocolate company based in which country?
Switzerland
Switzerland is home to the Gold Bunny's maker, which has wrapped the rabbit in gold foil since 1952 and gone to court in several countries to stop rivals selling look-alikes.
Q 02In German Lutheran folklore, which role did the Easter Hare play at the start of Eastertide?
Judging children's behavior
Judging children's behavior was the Easter Hare's job, much like Santa's list: only the well-behaved found eggs, and German-American lore recalls coal or droppings left for the naughty.
Q 03German immigrants brought the tradition of the 'Osterhase' to which U.S. state in the 1700s?
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania's German settlers brought the Osterhase, a hare rather than a rabbit; in English it became the Easter Rabbit and, in time, the Easter Bunny.
Q 04In Hop, what does E.B. produce instead of ordinary rabbit droppings?
Jelly beans
Jelly beans are what E.B. leaves behind instead of droppings in Hop (2011); he also fakes an injury so that Fred, the driver who hit him, will take him in.
Q 05The association of bunnies and hares with Easter stems from their historical symbolism of what?
Fertility and new life
Fertility and new life: rabbits and hares breed so quickly that they became ancient symbols of both, a natural fit for a festival of spring and rebirth.
Q 06What hangs from the red ribbon around the neck of the foil-wrapped Gold Bunny?
A small bell
A small bell hangs from the Gold Bunny's ribbon; the maker's own tale says a chocolatier, after a real rabbit vanished into his garden bushes, made one that could always be found.
Q 07President Rutherford B. Hayes started which Easter tradition at the White House?
The Egg Roll
The Egg Roll moved to the White House in 1878 after Congress, tired of torn-up lawns, barred children from playing on the Capitol grounds; Rutherford B. Hayes opened his own lawn instead.
Q 08Which jeweller made the ornate Easter eggs that Russia's last two tsars commissioned as family gifts?
Fabergé
Fabergé made 50 imperial Easter eggs, beginning in 1885 when Alexander III ordered one for his wife; his son Nicholas II kept up the order for his own wife and his mother.
Q 09Which chocolatier has fought court battles in several countries to protect its gold-foil Easter bunny?
Lindt
Lindt has sued rivals for years over look-alike bunnies; in 2022 a top court ordered the discounter Lidl to stop selling its version and destroy its remaining stock.
Q 10In German-influenced early American tradition, what did children make for the 'Osterhase' to leave eggs in?
Nests
Nests made from caps and bonnets were left out for the Easter Hare to fill with coloured eggs; decorated baskets later took their place.
Q 11A medieval belief about how hares breed linked the animal to which holy figure?
The Virgin Mary
The Virgin Mary became linked with the hare because it was thought to bear young without losing its virginity, so hares appear in manuscripts and paintings of the Virgin and Child.
Q 12The white Easter lily sold in pots each spring is native to the southern islands of which country?
Japan
Japan's Ryukyu Islands, along with Taiwan, are the lily's home; growers force potted bulbs in greenhouses so the white trumpets open in time for Easter.
Q 13Which native marsupial do Australians promote as an alternative to the Easter Bunny?
Bilby
Bilby chocolates stand in for bunnies in a campaign backed by Rabbit-Free Australia, because introduced rabbits strip the native habitat that animals like the bilby depend on.
Q 21Which Australian actor voices the Easter Bunny in DreamWorks' Rise of the Guardians (2012)?
Hugh Jackman
Hugh Jackman kept his own accent for Bunny, and the film's Easter Bunny says 'bloody' so often that parents' guides make a point of flagging it.
Q 22Volker Kraft of Saalfeld, Germany, became famous for hanging thousands of Easter eggs on what?
An apple tree
An apple tree in the Kraft family's garden wore 18 eggs in 1965 and about 10,000 by 2015, when the ageing couple decorated it for the last time.
Q 23In 'It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown', who keeps cooking the eggs meant for decorating?
Marcie
Marcie, coached by Peppermint Patty, fries the eggs, bakes them, presses them in a waffle iron and finally makes egg soup, never producing one fit to decorate.
Q 14Which British actor voices E.B.'s father, the reigning Easter Bunny, in Hop (2011)?
Hugh Laurie
Hugh Laurie voices Mr. Bunny, who runs the world's Easter candy factory beneath Easter Island and wants his reluctant son to inherit the job.
Q 15Rankin/Bass's 1976 special 'The First Easter Rabbit' is loosely based on which classic children's book?
The Velveteen Rabbit
The Velveteen Rabbit supplies the plot: a stuffed rabbit thrown out after his owner's scarlet fever is brought to life by a sprite and sent north to become the first Easter Bunny.
Q 16In a popular modern legend, a spring goddess turned a frozen bird into a hare, which kept what ability?
Laying eggs
Laying eggs is the ability the hare keeps in the tale, which is often retold as ancient but is a modern invention with no basis in pre-Christian folklore.
Q 17The 1974 Peanuts Easter special debuted on which US television network?
CBS
CBS first aired 'It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown' and repeated it every Easter season until 2000, after which the Peanuts specials moved to ABC.
Q 18Decorated Easter eggs are often traced to a ban on eating eggs during which Christian season?
Lent
Lent's fast once forbade eggs, but hens went on producing them, so households had a surplus waiting to be boiled and eaten when the fast ended at Easter.
Q 19In France and Belgium, silent church bells are said to fly to which city before Easter?
Rome
In French and Belgian tradition the bells fall silent on Maundy Thursday and fly to Rome, returning on Easter morning to scatter eggs and chocolates.
Q 20On Easter Monday in Poland, the custom of Śmigus-dyngus has people doing what to one another?
Throwing water
Throwing water is the heart of Śmigus-dyngus; the old custom also involved switching people with willow twigs, and handing over a painted egg was the way to buy an escape.
Q 24Which braided Greek Easter bread is baked with red-dyed eggs pressed into the dough?
Tsoureki
Tsoureki is a sweet braided loaf scented with mahleb or mastic; the eggs pressed into it are dyed red to recall the blood of Christ.
Q 25In 'Bugs Bunny's Easter Special' (1977), which character keeps turning up in costume to replace the sick Easter Bunny?
Daffy Duck
Daffy Duck covets the job Granny has offered to Bugs, and the 'recovered' Easter Bunny who strolls in at the end turns out to be Daffy in disguise.
Q 26Decorated pace eggs made for which Lake District poet's children are kept in a museum at Grasmere?
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth's children were given the decorated eggs; other pace eggs were handed to pace-eggers, costumed players who paraded the streets singing and collecting money.
Q 27Which Hollywood star played Hannah Brown, the novice dancer, in the 1948 musical 'Easter Parade'?
Judy Garland
Judy Garland played Hannah opposite a co-star coaxed out of retirement after Gene Kelly, first cast in the part, broke his ankle just before filming.
Q 28Which 325 AD assembly is credited with tying Easter to the Sunday after spring’s full moon?
The Council of Nicaea
Tradition credits Constantine's bishops at Nicaea in 325 AD with the rule, though later scholarship doubts the council ever spelled it out.
Q 29Two years before Cadbury, which Bristol firm made Britain's first hollow chocolate Easter egg?
Fry & Sons
Fry & Sons made the egg in 1873 by pouring a smooth chocolate paste into moulds; Cadbury's first Easter egg followed in 1875.
Q 30For Christians, the Easter egg is a symbol of what?
The empty tomb
The empty tomb: the egg looks lifeless from outside yet holds hidden life ready to break out, just as Jesus rose from the sealed grave.