Easter Trivia for Kids
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97 free Easter Trivia for Kids trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Easter trivia for kids quiz is written for children roughly six to twelve, and for the grown-ups running an Easter party, a classroom game or a long car ride. Every question is easy enough for a child to have a fair shot at, and every topic is kid-safe: the Easter Bunny and where he came from, egg hunts and egg rolls, chocolate eggs and jelly beans, Peeps, hot cross buns, baby chicks, bunnies, lambs and butterflies, the first day of spring, and the giant egg roll on the White House lawn. If you want the grown-up version with dates, history and world traditions, our main Easter trivia quiz is the one to play. The questions start very easy (what animal brings the eggs, what a baby chicken is called, what a chocolate bunny is usually filled with) and get a little trickier for older kids and parents (which president started the White House Egg Roll, how many Peeps colours came first, what Australia's Easter animal is). Nothing needs to be memorised in advance; a lot of it can be worked out. Every answer was checked against the encyclopaedia entry for the subject before publishing, and the sentence that supports it is stored with each question.
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Q 01Which animal is said to bring Easter eggs to children?
A bunny
The Easter Bunny, also called the Easter Rabbit or Easter Hare, is said to bring eggs to children; the tradition began among German Lutherans.
Q 02The Easter Bunny story first came from which country?
Germany
German Lutherans started it, and German settlers took it to America.
Q 03Long ago, the Easter Hare had the same job as which other holiday visitor?
Santa Claus
Like Santa Claus with his naughty-or-nice list, the original Easter Hare of German Lutherans judged whether children had been good or disobedient at the start of Eastertide.
Q 04Besides eggs, what else does the Easter Bunny bring to children?
Candy and toys
The Easter Bunny carries coloured eggs plus candy and sometimes toys to children's homes, a bit like Santa on Christmas Eve.
Q 05What is the game where children search for hidden Easter eggs called?
An egg hunt
An egg hunt is the game of finding hidden eggs; they can be real dyed eggs, plastic eggs full of candy, or foil-wrapped chocolate.
Q 06What do children usually collect their eggs in during a hunt?
A basket
Children gather the eggs they find in an Easter basket; prizes may go to whoever finds the most, the biggest, or the smallest egg.
Q 07Which famous person, some believe, organised the first Easter egg hunts?
Martin Luther
Martin Luther is said to have organised egg hunts for his congregation, with the men hiding eggs for the women and children to find.
Q 08In this Easter game, what do players do to their eggs to see whose goes farthest?
Roll them along the ground
The winner is usually whoever rolls farthest or fastest.
Q 09What is egg rolling down grassy hills called in the United Kingdom?
Pace-egging
Rolling decorated eggs down grassy hills is known as pace-egging in the UK, from the old word Pasch for Easter; chocolate eggs are often used now.
Q 10According to an old Lancashire legend, what would witches do with broken eggshells?
Use them as boats
Legend said witches would steal the broken shells and use them as boats, so the shells had to be crushed up carefully after the egg roll.
Q 11How were eggs traditionally coloured for rolling in England?
Boiled with onion skins
The onion skins gave the shells a mottled golden look.
Q 12Where in Washington, D.C. is the Easter Egg Roll held every Easter Monday?
The White House South Lawn
The White House South Lawn hosts the Easter Egg Roll each Easter Monday, for children aged 13 and younger with their parents.
Q 13What do children push their eggs with at the White House Egg Roll?
A long-handled spoon
In the egg roll race children push their eggs through the grass with long-handled wooden spoons, and the spoons are kept as souvenirs.
Q 21Eggs are an old symbol of what?
New life
Eggs are an ancient symbol of new life and rebirth; at Easter they also stand for the empty tomb of Jesus.
Q 22What is often used instead of a real hen's egg at Easter?
Chocolate wrapped in foil
Chocolate wrapped in foil is the usual stand-in for a real hen's egg at Easter; plastic eggs filled with candy are popular too.
Q 23How old are the oldest decorated eggs found in Africa?
60,000 years
Engraved ostrich eggshells about 60,000 years old were found at Diepkloof Rock Shelter in South Africa, the oldest decorated eggs known.
Q 14Which president brought the Egg Roll to the White House lawn in 1878?
Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes opened the White House grounds to egg rollers in 1878, two years after Congress banned the game on the Capitol lawn.
Q 15Why did Congress ban egg rolling at the Capitol in 1876?
A wild egg roll wrecked the lawn
The law made it illegal to use the Capitol grounds as a playground.
Q 16Which first lady is said in legend to have started Washington's Easter egg roll?
Dolley Madison
Legend credits Dolley Madison, wife of James Madison, with starting the egg roll in 1814; children were rolling eggs at the Capitol by the 1870s.
Q 17What is the Thursday before Easter, remembering the Last Supper, called?
Maundy Thursday
Maundy Thursday, the Thursday before Easter, remembers the Last Supper; in Britain the monarch hands out special Maundy money coins that day.
Q 18What is another name for a decorated Easter egg?
Paschal egg
Easter eggs are also called Paschal eggs, from Pascha, the Greek and Latin name for Easter that comes from the Hebrew Pesach.
Q 19What is the oldest way of making an Easter egg?
Dyeing and painting a hen's egg
Dyeing and painting a hen's egg is the oldest kind of Easter egg, a custom long kept across Central and Eastern Europe; chocolate eggs are a modern substitute.
Q 20What colour did early Christians traditionally dye Easter eggs?
Red
Early Christians in Mesopotamia stained eggs red in memory of the blood of Christ, a custom kept by Orthodox Christians.
Q 24In which country do boys tap girls with braided willow switches on Easter Monday?
Czech Republic
In the Czech Republic boys visit on Easter Monday with a braided willow switch called a pomlazka, tapping girls for luck and receiving decorated eggs in return.
Q 25Which country's beautifully patterned wax-decorated eggs are called pysanky?
Ukraine
The pysanka is one of Ukraine's national symbols.
Q 26In Poland, decorated eggs are shared at the family table before which meal?
Easter Sunday breakfast
Polish families share blessed decorated eggs before Easter Sunday breakfast, a sign of friendship like sharing the Christmas wafer.
Q 27In the game of egg tapping, what are players trying to do?
Crack the other player's egg
In egg tapping each player tries to crack the other player's egg while keeping their own whole; cheats have been caught using eggs filled with marble or cement.
Q 28Where are the world egg-jarping championships held every Easter Sunday?
A cricket club in County Durham
The World Egg Jarping Championships have been held at Peterlee Cricket Club in County Durham each Easter Sunday since 1983.
Q 29In the traditional Easter egg dance, with eggs lying on the floor, what is the dancers' goal?
Not to break any
The goal is not to break any: eggs are laid on the floor and dancers weave among them, damaging as few as possible.
Q 30In an egg-and-spoon race, what must you do?
Balance the egg and run to the finish
Runners balance the egg on a spoon and run to the finish without dropping it; it is a favourite at school sports days along with the sack race.