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149 free Easter Eggs trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
12 free Easter eggs trivia questions with answers. Easter eggs are a beloved symbol of spring and renewal celebrated worldwide. Whether you're curious about their historical origins, cultural significance, or fun traditions, this trivia quiz will test your knowledge. Take our 149-question Easter eggs challenge and discover fascinating facts about this iconic holiday tradition!
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Q 01What is the primary Christian symbolism of the Easter egg?
The Empty Tomb
The Empty Tomb from which Jesus rose is what the egg stands for, and cracking the shell represents his resurrection from the dead.
Q 02In French tradition, what are said to fly back from Rome on Easter morning, dropping eggs for children?
Church bells
Church bells fall silent from Maundy Thursday, so French children are told they have flown to Rome; when they ring again at Easter, they are said to scatter eggs in gardens on the way home.
Q 03Beyond Christian symbolism, what have eggs traditionally represented across cultures?
Fertility and rebirth
Fertility and rebirth: a chick breaking out of a seemingly lifeless shell made the egg an emblem of new life, which is why painted eggs also sit on Iran's Nowruz table each spring.
Q 04Ukrainian pysanky take their name from the verb 'pysaty', which means what?
To write
To write: the designs are not painted on but written in fine lines with a stylus, one colour at a time.
Q 05Which tsar, the father of Russia's last emperor, commissioned the first Imperial Fabergé egg for his wife in 1885?
Alexander III
Alexander III gave his wife Maria Feodorovna the Hen Egg at Easter 1885, and she was so delighted that he ordered a new egg from Fabergé every year, each one hiding a surprise.
Q 06Which Protestant reformer is said to have organised early Easter egg hunts, with men hiding eggs for women and children?
Martin Luther
Martin Luther is said to have had men hide eggs in the garden for their wives and children in the 1500s; German migrants carried the egg hunt to North America two centuries later.
Q 07Why were eggs traditionally forbidden during Lent in medieval Europe?
They were seen as animal products
They were seen as animal products, so the Lenten fast barred eggs along with meat and dairy; hens kept laying, and the surplus was boiled, decorated and eaten at Easter.
Q 08Which director's films share made-up brands such as Red Apple cigarettes and Big Kahuna Burger?
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino uses his own invented brands in place of product placement; a Big Kahuna cup already appears in Reservoir Dogs, and both brands turn up in Pulp Fiction and later films.
Q 09In the 1973 game Moonlander, the earliest known video game Easter egg lets the astronaut visit which restaurant?
McDonald's
McDonald's appears if the player flies far enough sideways across the Moon; land beside it and the astronaut walks over, but crash into it and the game scolds you for destroying the only one on the Moon.
Q 10Which pop star is nicknamed the 'Queen of Easter Eggs' for hiding clues to her next releases?
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift plants clues in outfits, colour schemes, numbers and album packaging, and fans decode them so eagerly that cryptic teasers have become a standard tool of pop marketing.
Q 11The 'do a barrel roll' search trick, which spins the whole results page, copies a move from which Nintendo series?
Star Fox
Star Fox pilots spin their Arwing fighters in a 'barrel roll' to deflect enemy fire; the search page copies the move, and typing 'z or r twice' sets it off too.
Q 12What surprising interactive Easter egg did Excel 97 contain?
A hidden flight simulator
A hidden flight simulator let players skim over a fractal landscape inside the spreadsheet program until they came upon the scrolling credits of the developers who built it.
Q 13Which future British queen wrote in her girlhood journal of hunting eggs hidden by her German-born mother?
Queen Victoria
Q 21How are a pysanka's hidden colours revealed after its last dye bath?
Melting off the wax
Melting off the wax: each layer of beeswax shielded one colour from the next dye, so warming the egg and wiping it clean uncovers the whole pattern at once.
Q 22In German folklore, the egg-bringer behind the Easter Bunny is said to have played what role for children?
A judge of their behaviour
A judge of their behaviour, it is said, sorting the good from the disobedient at the start of Eastertide; children built nests where the creature could leave its coloured eggs.
Q 23The Cadbury Creme Egg was launched in 1963 under which sister brand's name?
Fry's
Queen Victoria recorded the hunts her mother, the Duchess of Kent, laid on; she and Prince Albert later hid eggs for their own children, bringing a German custom into the royal household.
Q 14The oldest known decorated eggshells, engraved 60,000 years ago in South Africa, came from which bird?
Ostrich
Ostrich eggshells served as water flasks at Diepkloof Rock Shelter, and their owners scratched hatched bands into them, perhaps to show which person or group a flask belonged to.
Q 15A family in Saalfeld, Germany, drew crowds each spring by hanging about 10,000 eggs on what?
Apple tree
An apple tree in Volker Kraft's garden carried 18 plastic eggs in 1965 and more than 10,000 by 2012; the family stopped in 2015, and the town has kept the custom going on other trees since.
Q 16Why did Warren Robinett hide his name inside the game Adventure?
Atari refused to credit programmers
Atari refused to credit programmers, fearing rivals would poach named developers; when players found Robinett's secret room, management judged a recall too costly and left it in.
Q 17An American who unknowingly bought a lost Imperial Fabergé egg planned to do what with it?
Have it melted down
Have it melted down for scrap was the plan, but the metal would have earned him no profit; a late-night online search then revealed the lost Third Imperial Egg, valued at about $33 million.
Q 18Which president brought the annual Easter Egg Roll to the White House lawn in 1878?
Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes opened the South Lawn to egg rollers in 1878, two years after Congress, tired of ruined turf, outlawed children's games on the Capitol grounds.
Q 19The White House Egg Roll is held on which day each spring?
Easter Monday
Easter Monday has been the day since 1878, when children barred from rolling eggs on the Capitol grounds were welcomed onto the White House lawn instead.
Q 20At Easter Nicholas II gave one Fabergé egg to his wife and another to whom?
His mother
His mother, the dowager empress Maria Feodorovna, had been given an egg each Easter by her late husband; Nicholas kept that custom alive for her and added a second egg for his own wife.
Fry's had merged with Cadbury in 1919, which is why the egg could launch under either name; it stayed Fry's Creme Egg until the 1971 rebrand to Cadbury's.
Q 24Kinder Surprise, launched in 1974, was created by which Italian confectioner?
Ferrero
Ferrero's Michele Ferrero and William Salice modelled it on the Italian Easter custom of giving children a big chocolate egg with a toy inside.
Q 25Cascarones, confetti-filled eggshells cracked over heads at Easter and Carnival, are a tradition of which country?
Mexico
Mexico uses cascarones mainly at Carnival; in towns along the US border the two cultures blended and made cracking them over heads an Easter custom, now common across the Southwest.
Q 26What is the challenge in the traditional egg dance?
Stepping among them, breaking none
Stepping among them, breaking none, is the feat: in a 1795 novel by Goethe, the girl Mignon ties a band over her eyes and skips between the eggs without touching one.
Q 27In some Pace Egg folk plays of Lancashire and Yorkshire, performed at Easter, which saint smites all challengers?
St George
St George does the smiting; the plays are mock combats in which a slain fighter is brought back to life, often by a quack doctor.
Q 28Easter falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after what?
The vernal equinox
The vernal equinox is fixed in church tables as 21 March, and the full moon is calculated rather than observed, so Easter can differ from the date astronomy alone would give.
Q 29In Franconia's Osterbrunnen tradition, what do locals decorate with thousands of painted eggshells at Easter?
Village fountains
Village fountains and wells are dressed with garlands and eggshells, a custom from early-1900s Franconian Switzerland that is often put down to how precious water was in that dry upland.
Q 30Hidden Mickeys trace back to Imagineers designing which park, planned as a more adult park without Disney characters?
Epcot
Epcot was meant to be a more adult park that even sold alcohol, so Mickey was kept out; Imagineers took that as a challenge and slipped his silhouette into the details.