April Trivia and Facts

April Fools Day was first celebrated in __.

• 1863

• 1905

• 4600 BC

• 1350

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In what town was April Fools Day first recorded?

• Trogir, Croatia

• Bergen, Norway

• Jamestown, USA

• Berlin, Germany

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Why was April Fools Day started?

• To make jokes about the emerging, plague, "The black death"

• To fool parents into letting their kids skip school

• To make fun of a bad situation

• To have a day of pranks to celebrate the new season arriving

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April Fools Day is huge in many countries, but ___ has declared it a national holiday.

• Saudi Arabia

• Romania

• Ghana

• China

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Who is famous for their great "Stick on a rope" prank, on the 1st of April in 1896?

• Winston Churchill

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Joseph Stalin

• Lady Gaga

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Which country uses the 1st of April as the start of a new year, instead of the 1st of January?

• Mexico

• Bolivia

• Argentina

• Chile

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What is the biggest April Fools joke ever done, that "everyone" fell for?

• The encounter Nasa had with ET

• A Pepsi commercial promoting Pepsi "Air" in a can

• A wrongly sent message about an incoming missile attack

• The election of a brown bear as the mayor of Karachi

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What April Fools joke did Galileo Galilei make in the 1600s?

• He told everyone he had spotted Saturn's rings

• He proclaimed that the moon was made out of cheese

• He said the sun was a space-volcano

• He said that earth is a small cog in a big universal clock

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Where do they celebrate April 1st with a big carnival every year?

• Uzbekistan

• The Vatican

• Cuba

• Magadan (Russia)

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In ___, they celebrate April Fools by throwing cake into the ocean.

• Madagascar

• Thailand

• Sri Lanka

• Somalia

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