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40 free Eid Al-Adha trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Eid al-Adha is the feast a fifth of humanity keeps together, and almost everywhere it keeps under a different name. The day turns on one story from the Quran, a father and a son who both submit, and on one act of giving: an animal offered and its meat shared out so that nobody goes without. This quiz covers the whole of it: what the Quran actually says and what tradition added, the dates and the lunar drift that moves them, the rules jurists set for the offering and how the portions are divided, the Eid morning from bath to homecoming, the fast on the day before, and the names, greetings, dishes and public holidays the feast has gathered from the Balkans to Borneo. It is written for players who grew up with the feast and want the reasons behind its customs, for classrooms and community quiz nights that need accurate questions, and for anyone curious about how one day is kept in so many ways. Every question cites the page that establishes its answer.
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Q 01Albania's holiday law ranks Eid al-Adha, the Arabic world's 'Greater Eid', as which of its two Eids by size?
The little one
The little one — Bajrami i Vogël — is Eid al-Adha in Albania, where Eid al-Fitr is Bajrami i Madh, the Great Bajram, the opposite of Arabic usage, in which the feast of sacrifice is the greater Eid.
Q 02Singapore's Hari Raya Haji fell twice in 2006, as it had in 1974; what lets one Gregorian year hold two?
Lunar years run 11 days short
Lunar years run 11 days short of solar ones, so Islamic dates creep earlier every year and a feast that falls in early January can come round again before December ends.
Q 03Which Caribbean nation gives Eid al-Fitr a public holiday but not Eid al-Adha?
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago keeps Eid al-Fitr as its official recognition of Islam and its most publicly celebrated Muslim holiday, while Eid al-Adha, a close second, is not an official holiday there.
Q 04Which West African country, over 90% Muslim, calls Eid al-Adha Tabaski yet lines its capital with Christmas trees?
Senegal
Senegal treats Tabaski, Korité and the Gamou as its great days, yet Christmas trees and decorations line the streets of Dakar each December, a relaxed mix that runs through Senegalese public life.
Q 05Turkey's public holiday for the Feast of Sacrifice runs four full days; what extra time off precedes them?
A half-day the afternoon before
A half-day the afternoon before, the arife, is written into Turkish law alongside the four full days, so offices empty at lunchtime on the eve of the feast.
Q 06Which Indian Ocean nation marks Eid al-Adha as Bodu Eid, a public holiday running 10–13 Dhu al-Hijjah?
The Maldives
The Maldives calls it Bodu Eid, the Big Eid, and Eid al-Fitr Kuda Eid, the Small Eid, which gets a shorter holiday from the 1st to the 3rd of Shawwal.
Q 07Which alternative Arabic name for Eid al-Adha means 'Greater Eid'?
Eid al-Kabir
Eid al-Kabir, the Greater Eid, has counterparts meaning 'Large Eid' in Pashto, Kashmiri, Urdu and Hindi, while Eid al-Fitr is known in many places as the Lesser Eid.
Q 08In which month of 2025 did Eid al-Adha fall, with West Asia and Europe a day ahead of South Asia?
June
June 2025 saw the feast open on the 6th in West Asia, Europe and North America but on the 7th across North Africa, South and Southeast Asia, because the crescent moon is sighted region by region.
Q 09By custom, what share of the Eid al-Adha meat does the family keep, the rest going to relatives and the poor?
A third
A third stays with the household, and the remainder is split equally between friends and relatives on one side and the poor on the other, so the feast reaches well beyond the family.
Q 10What do Turkish speakers call Eid al-Adha?
Kurban Bayramı
Kurban Bayramı is the name in Turkey, with close cousins across the Turkic world, while Eid al-Fitr becomes Ramazan Bayramı or, in everyday speech, Şeker Bayramı, the Sugar Feast.
Q 11Bakri Eid, a common Bangladeshi name for Eid al-Adha, literally means the Eid of which animal?
The goat
The goat is bakri in Bengali, Hindi and Urdu, which is how the day became Bakrid across South Asia; Bangladeshis also call it Korbanir Eid, the Eid of sacrifice.
Q 12In Pakistan, applying which decoration to the hands is a famous Eid al-Adha tradition among women?
Henna
Henna goes on the night before the feast, and the morning brings Eidi, the money and gifts that elders hand to Pakistani children once the prayer is over.
Q 13Between which two points of the day must the Eid al-Adha prayer fall, which keeps it a morning congregation?
Sunrise and midday
Q 21For which group is fasting on the Day of Arafah discouraged rather than recommended?
Hajj pilgrims
Hajj pilgrims are spared the fast because the standing at Arafat from noon to sunset is demanding enough, and Muhammad did not fast while he stood there in supplication.
Q 22Which Shia holiday falls on 18 Dhu al-Hijjah, eight days after Eid al-Adha?
Eid al-Ghadir
Eid al-Ghadir marks Muhammad's address at the pool of Ghadir Khumm on the way home from his final pilgrimage, which Shia Muslims read as naming Ali his successor.
Q 23The Arabic word for the Eid al-Adha offering, a cousin of the Hebrew korban, comes from a root meaning what?
Closeness
Sunrise and midday bound the window — the Zuhr prayer marks its close — exactly as for Eid al-Fitr, and the sermon follows rather than precedes the prayer, the reverse of Friday's order.
Q 14If a storm or other force majeure stops the Eid al-Adha prayer on the day itself, how late may it be held?
No more than two days later
No more than two days later is allowed: the prayer may move to the day after Eid or the one after that, and a khutbah still follows it whenever it is finally held.
Q 15The Eid prayer may begin once the sun has climbed above the horizon by roughly the height of what?
A spear
A spear's length — about three metres of sky — is the traditional mark, and the window closes when the sun reaches its meridian, so the prayer is never an afternoon one.
Q 16Per 'Amr ibn Shu'ayb's hadith, how many takbirs open the Eid prayer's second rak'ah, after a longer run in the first?
Five
Five come in the second rak'ah after a longer opening run in the first, the practice of most schools; one school instead adds three takbirs before the recitation in the first rak'ah and three after it in the second.
Q 17Why is the Eid al-Adha prayer traditionally held earlier in the morning than the Eid al-Fitr prayer?
To leave time for the offering
To leave time for the offering, which follows the prayer, Eid al-Adha is prayed early, whereas Eid al-Fitr is delayed so that Zakat al-Fitr can be handed out beforehand.
Q 18Eid al-Fitr begins with breakfast before setting out; when does the sunnah say to first eat on Eid al-Adha?
Only after the prayer
Only after the prayer, traditionally from the meat of one's own offering, does the first meal come on Eid al-Adha, whereas on Eid al-Fitr the sunnah is to eat, classically dates, before setting out.
Q 19Which sunnah of the Eid morning concerns the way home from the prayer ground?
Taking a different route
Taking a different route home from the one walked to the prayer is a practice of Muhammad's, alongside a bath beforehand, best clothes and the takbir chanted on the way there and back.
Q 20Fasting on the Day of Arafah, the eve of Eid al-Adha, is said to expiate the sins of how many years?
Two
Two years — the one past and the one to come — is the reward Muhammad named when asked about the Arafah fast, which is why the fast is kept at home on the ninth of Dhu al-Hijjah.
Closeness is the sense of the root q-r-b, attested as far back as Akkadian: the offering is what brings the giver near to God, and the same root gives Greek villagers their kourbania.
Q 24In Ibn Kathir's telling of the first qurban, drawn from Isra'iliyyat, what did Abel offer while Cain gave crops?
A sheep
A sheep from Abel's flock, accepted where Cain's produce was not, is the first qurban in Ibn Kathir's account, which leans on Isra'iliyyat, the lore Muslim writers borrowed from Jewish sources.
Q 25Which term does Islamic law use for the feast-day offering itself, as distinct from dhabihah, everyday halal slaughter?
Udhiyah
Udhiyah is the jurists' word — a specific animal, offered by a specific person, on specific days, to seek God's pleasure — and hadiths on the feast use it interchangeably with qurban.
Q 26The Shafi'i school allows the Eid offering a day longer than other schools, until sunset on which day of Dhu al-Hijjah?
The 13th
The 13th is the Shafi'i cut-off; the majority hold the window runs from the morning of the 10th to sunset on the 12th, giving most Muslims three days to make the offering.
Q 27Which school of Islamic law alone counts the Eid al-Adha offering as wajib for every financially able resident?
Hanafi
Hanafi jurists rank it wajib for anyone who can afford it, while the other three Sunni schools call it sunnah mu'akkadah, strongly recommended but not binding.
Q 28As Jabir recalled from the year of Hudaybiyyah, a camel or cow offered at Eid may be shared by how many people?
Seven
Seven is the share limit set by Muhammad's own practice, when the companions offered a camel for seven and a cow for seven, while a smaller animal counts for a single household.
Q 29A hadith forbids fasting on the three Tashriq days that follow Eid al-Adha, calling them days of what?
Eating and drinking
Eating and drinking — and remembering God, the chapter heading adds — fill the three days after the feast, when offerings continue and fasting is prohibited.
Q 30Which Minangkabau beef dish, slow-cooked in coconut milk, is served across the Malay world at Hari Raya, both Eids?
Rendang
Rendang was declared a Malaysian heritage food in 2009 and Indonesian cultural heritage in 2013, and is traditionally reserved for Eid, weddings and other ceremonial gatherings.