Looking for a ready-made Easter quiz? This is a complete, family-friendly quiz for 2026 with the questions and answers laid out in rounds, so you can read them straight off the screen on Easter Sunday. We have pulled together genuine trivia and double-checked every answer, covering Easter traditions, food and chocolate, the religious meaning behind Holy Week, and some record-breaking facts to finish on. Pick a quizmaster, split into teams, and get cracking.
The beauty of an Easter quiz is that it needs nothing more than a sofa and a few people in a good mood. Run it after the egg hunt, between courses of the roast, or on a rainy Easter weekend afternoon when everyone has had quite enough chocolate. Each round below has ten questions; read the question, give teams a moment, then reveal the answer. There are easy rounds for younger players and trickier ones for the grown-ups, so nobody is left out.
Round 1: Easter traditions
A gentle warm-up to get everyone going. These are the questions most people can have a fair guess at.
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1. Which country started the tradition of the Easter Bunny? Germany. The figure began as the "Osterhase", an egg-laying hare in German Lutheran folklore.
2. What is the Sunday before Easter Sunday called? Palm Sunday.
3. Besides the Easter Bunny, which two animals are linked to Easter? Chicks and lambs.
4. What type of hat is traditionally decorated for Easter? An Easter bonnet.
5. What popular activity is traditionally held on Easter Sunday morning? An Easter egg hunt.
6. The first decorated Easter eggs were dyed in which colour? Red.
7. What is the official flower of Easter? The white lily.
8. What is the Friday before Easter called? Good Friday.
9. In Switzerland, which creature traditionally brings the Easter eggs? A cuckoo, rather than a bunny.
10. What meat is traditionally eaten for Easter Sunday lunch in Britain? Lamb.
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The tastiest round, and the one with the most heated debate. Anyone who has eaten a chocolate bunny has an opinion on the first question.
1. What part of a chocolate bunny do most people eat first? The ears.
2. Which UK company made the first chocolate Easter egg, back in 1873? J.S. Fry & Sons of Bristol. Cadbury followed with their version in 1875.
3. In what year did the Cadbury Creme Egg first appear? 1971.
4. Roughly how many Creme Eggs does Cadbury make each year? Around 500 million, and they are only on sale between New Year and Easter.
5. What does the cross on a hot cross bun represent? The cross on which Jesus was crucified.
6. What do the spices in a hot cross bun traditionally represent? The spices used to embalm Christ after his death.
7. How many marzipan balls sit on top of a traditional simnel cake? Eleven, one for each of the apostles except Judas.
8. What is the traditional pancake-flipping day before Lent called? Shrove Tuesday, also known as Pancake Day.
9. Which German baked good was historically eaten at Easter and is said to look like praying hands? The pretzel.
10. Roughly how many Easter eggs are sold in the UK each year? About 80 million.
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Round 3: The meaning of Easter
A round for the history and the religious story behind the long weekend. Even non-churchgoers tend to know more than they expect here. If you want to check the trickier facts yourself, the Encyclopaedia Britannica entry on Easter is a reliable place to start.
1. What is Easter named after? Eostre, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring, according to the 8th-century monk Bede.
2. Why does the date of Easter change every year? It is tied to the moon. Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox, a rule the Church has used for centuries.
3. Between which two dates does Easter Sunday always fall? 22 March and 25 April.
4. What is remembered on Maundy Thursday? The Last Supper, the final meal Jesus shared with his disciples.
5. Why is Palm Sunday so called? It marks Jesus entering Jerusalem, greeted by crowds waving palm branches.
6. In the Bible, who betrayed Jesus before the crucifixion? Judas.
7. Which disciple denied knowing Jesus three times? Peter.
8. How long does the season of Lent last? 40 days.
9. What other name is sometimes given to Easter Sunday? Resurrection Day.
10. In which year did the English Parliament effectively ban Easter celebrations? 1647, when Easter and other holy days were abolished and Easter Sunday became an ordinary Sunday.
Round 4: Easter around the world and record breakers
The final round, and the one that turns everyone into a know-it-all. Save the trickiest record breakers for the tie-break.
1. Australia promotes a native animal instead of the Easter Bunny. Which one? The Easter Bilby, a long-eared marsupial.
2. What do children traditionally dress up as at Easter in Finland? Witches, going door to door for treats.
3. Easter Island is a territory of which country? Chile.
4. In which country does a town near Haux make a giant omelette from thousands of eggs on Easter Monday? France.
5. What is the Ukrainian style of intricately painted Easter eggs called? Pysanka.
6. Roughly how tall was the tallest chocolate Easter egg ever made? About 10.39 metres, built in Italy in 2011.
7. Where did the world's largest Easter egg hunt take place, using over 500,000 eggs? Florida, USA, in 2007.
8. The world's largest hot cross bun was baked in Bolton in 2012. Roughly how much did it weigh? About 168 kilograms.
9. According to the Met Office, which weather is actually more likely at Easter than at Christmas in the UK? Snow.
10. A North East England Easter game involves tapping hard-boiled eggs together until one cracks. What is it called? Egg jarping, a tradition especially associated with County Durham.
However you keep score, the point of an Easter quiz is the time spent together, not the trophy. Print it out, gather everyone round, and enjoy the long weekend. For families who like to match for the occasion, our matching family sets bring the same togetherness to the festive season later in the year, and our cosy pyjamas are a favourite all winter long.
Easter quiz by the numbers
4 rounds of 10 questions, 40 in total, with every answer verified
Around 80 million Easter eggs are sold in the UK each year
The first UK chocolate Easter egg was made by J.S. Fry & Sons in Bristol in 1873
The Cadbury Creme Egg first appeared in 1971
Easter Sunday always falls between 22 March and 25 April; in 2026 it is 5 April
A traditional simnel cake is topped with 11 marzipan balls
Four rounds of around ten questions each works well for most families: one on Easter traditions, one on food and chocolate, one on the meaning of Easter, and a final round on world traditions and record breakers. It keeps the quiz to a comfortable 30 to 40 questions, long enough to be fun but short enough to hold everyone's attention.
Younger players do best with multiple-choice questions on familiar territory: which part of a chocolate bunny most people eat first (the ears), who hides the eggs for an egg hunt (the Easter Bunny), what the Friday before Easter is called (Good Friday), and what type of hat is decorated for Easter (an Easter bonnet). Round 1 and Round 2 above are pitched at exactly this level.
Easter is a movable feast tied to the lunar calendar. It falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox, which means it can land anywhere between 22 March and 25 April. In 2026, Easter Sunday is on 5 April.
Germany. The Easter Bunny began as the Osterhase, an egg-laying hare in German Lutheran tradition that was said to judge whether children had been good. German immigrants later carried the custom to other countries, where it grew into the chocolate-delivering bunny we know today.
Roast lamb is the classic centrepiece, often served with seasonal spring vegetables. The day usually starts with hot cross buns, and a simnel cake, a light fruit cake topped with eleven marzipan balls, is the traditional Easter bake.
