Hope you enjoyed the quiz at the Eggstravaganza Coffi Troddi. Missed it? Have a go now:
COFFI TRODDI EASTER QUIZ
Q1. Try these ditloids e.g. 366 DIALY (366 days in a leap year)
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40 DIL
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12 DATLS
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39 BITOT
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31 DIM
Q2. Name the artist & the century each painting was created
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(b)
Q3. Dingbats e.g. CCRREEAAMM double cream
Q4. Easter Island belongs to which country?
Q5. What is the latest date on which Easter Sunday can fall?
Q6. Dyngus Day is another name for what day at Easter?
Q7. Who wrote the lyrics for Jesus Christ Superstar?
Q8. How is a simnel cake traditionally decorated?
Q9. The name Golgotha refers to the hill of Calvary – in which language?
Q10. In which year did the Easter Rising take place in Dublin?
Q11. Which Scottish football club plays its home games at Easter Road?
Q12. What is a pascal?
COFFI TRODDI EASTER QUIZ ANSWERS
A1. 40 DIL 40 days in Lent
12 DATLS 12 disciples at the last supper
39 BITOT 39 books in the Old Testament
31 DIM 31 days in March
A2.a Leonardo da Vinci 15th C (1498)
A2.b Michelangelo 16th century (1511)
A3.
Forgive & forget
Passover festival
Scrambled eggs
Water (H2O)
A4. Chile
A5. 25th April
A6. Easter Monday
A7. Tim Rice
A8. Conventionally it has 11 marzipan balls, to represent the 12 disciples minus Judas
A9. Aramaic language as commonly spoken by the Hebrew population of Jerusalem in those days
A10. 1916
A11. Hibernian FC (in Edinburgh)
A12. A unit of pressure: one newton per square metre (as opposed to Pascal with a capital P, which is both the name of a 17th century French philosopher and a computer language “used particularly in training” – whatever that means!)