WorksheetsApril Fools Day Trivia
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
April Fools Day was first celebrated in __.
1863
1905
4600 BC
1350
In what town was April Fools Day first recorded?
Trogir, Croatia
Bergen, Norway
Jamestown, USA
Berlin, Germany
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
April Fools Day is huge in many countries, but ___ has declared it a national holiday.
Saudi Arabia
Romania
Ghana
China
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
Which country uses the 1st of April as the start of a new year, instead of the 1st of January?
Mexico
Bolivia
Argentina
Chile
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
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
Where do they celebrate April 1st with a big carnival every year?
Uzbekistan
The Vatican
Cuba
Magadan (Russia)
In ___, they celebrate April Fools by throwing cake into the ocean.
Madagascar
Thailand
Sri Lanka
Somalia
Some of the questions in this quiz are pure fiction & made up. How many?
None of them, all questions were true.
All of them are fake.
Only half of them are fake.
Only the one about Galileo Galilei
All the questions in this quiz were fake, but did you think any of them were actually real?
Yes, I fell for at least a couple.
I never saw this coming! I thought all were true.
No, I knew they were all fake from the start.
What is April Fools?
