Q 01/05

In Germany's Franconia, what is dressed with Easter eggs in the Osterbrunnen tradition?

A) Wells and fountains

B) Church doors

C) Bridges

D) Town gates

Answer · why

A) Wells and fountains

Wells and fountains are decorated with painted eggs and greenery; the custom began in the early 20th century in Franconian Switzerland, and displays s...

Q 02/05

In French tradition, what flies back from Rome on Easter morning, bringing eggs for the children?

A) White doves

B) Church bells

C) Guardian angels

D) Migrating storks

Answer · why

B) Church bells

Church bells fall silent in France in the days before Easter, and children are told they have flown to Rome; they return on Easter morning scattering ...

Q 03/05

Easter Sunday falls on the first Sunday after what lunar event?

A) Last Quarter

B) New Moon

C) First Quarter

D) Full Moon

Answer · why

D) Full Moon

Easter is the first Sunday after the Paschal full moon, the ecclesiastical full moon falling on or after 21 March, which is why the date can shift by ...

Q 04/05

In many cultures, what do Easter eggs symbolize?

A) Wealth

B) Rebirth

C) Harvest

D) Good luck

Answer · why

B) Rebirth

Rebirth is the idea, new life hatching from what looks lifeless; eggs were also forbidden through Lent, so Easter brought the first chance to eat them...

Q 05/05

Which poet answered Ireland's 1916 rising with 'Easter, 1916' and its refrain 'A terrible beauty is born'?

A) Seamus Heaney

B) W. B. Yeats

C) Patrick Kavanagh

D) Louis MacNeice

Answer · why

B) W. B. Yeats

W. B. Yeats ends the poem by naming executed leaders, among them John MacBride, a man he despised and calls 'a drunken, vainglorious lout' earlier in ...