What is Easter About?

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. On which day is it traditional to make pancakes? Ash Wednesday Shrove Tuesday Maundy Thursday Good Friday

2. What are the 40 days before Easter known as? Answer: (One Word - begins with L)

3. What does Palm Sunday celebrate? A traditional Roman festival when dates were eaten A traditional Jewish festival when people laid fresh palms in their homes on their floors Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a colt Jesus riding into Bethlehem on a donkey

4. Jesus was crucified on Easter Sunday. True False

5. Easter is celebrated on the same date each year. True False

6. For how many pieces of silver did Judas Iscariot betray Jesus? 25 100 20 30

7. What does Gethsemane mean? place of the skull press of oils beautiful garden olive grove

8. What colour was the cloak that Jesus wore when he went to the cross? Green Purple White Black

9. Who helped Jesus carry his cross? Simon of Cyrene Simon the Zealot Joseph of Arimathea Saul of Tarsus

10. Who rolled away the stone from the mouth of the grave in which Jesus had been placed? the gardener an angel a soldier Joseph of Arimathea