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 Jewish festival when people laid fresh palms in their homes on their floors A traditional Roman festival when dates were eaten Jesus riding into Bethlehem on a donkey Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a colt

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? 30 20 25 100

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

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

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