S19 E7 - It's Not Wester, It's Easter

Quiz and Hers

It’s Easter season, so Justin has written six questions all about the holiest day of the Christian year! We also talk about animation, poetry, and the Middle Ages!

2:34: Q1 (Times & Places): The term “Easter” is derived from the name of a pagan English goddess whose festival was celebrated in April, at least according to what Venerable eighth-century monk and scholar?

8:12: Q2 (Movies & TV): Easter Yeggs is a 1947 animated short in which the Easter Bunny meets what other famous Bunny?

15:36: Q3 (Music): Catalog number BVW 4, “Christ lay in death’s bonds” is an Easter cantata by what Baroque composer, who was voted the greatest composer of all time in a poll of 174 living composers in 2019?

22:08: Q4 (Sports & Games): Nicknamed both “The Easter Race” and “The Hell of the North”, Paris-Roubaix is one of the “Monuments” – the five most prestigious one-day races in what sport?

27:53: Q5 (Arts & Literature): Easter, 1916 is a poem by what Irish Nobel laureate, also known for “Leda and the Swan”, “Death”, and “Sailing to Byzantium”?

33:37: Q6 (Everything Else): In the Christian liturgical calendar, Easter is preceded by what 40-day observance, in which Christians often give up something they enjoy?

Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0

E-Mail: [email protected]

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quizandhers/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/quizandhers

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quizandhers/

Bore Meets World Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bore-meets-world-a-boy-meets-world-podcast/id1357883583

Brain Ladle Productions: http://www.brainladletrivia.com/

Cormac on Twitter: @CormacsThoughts