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April Fools Day Trivia

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

April Fools Day was first celebrated in __.

a)

1863

b)

1905

c)

4600 BC

d)

1350

2.

In what town was April Fools Day first recorded?

a)

Trogir, Croatia

b)

Bergen, Norway

c)

Jamestown, USA

d)

Berlin, Germany

3.

Why was April Fools Day started?

a)

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

b)

To fool parents into letting their kids skip school

c)

To make fun of a bad situation

d)

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

4.

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

a)

Saudi Arabia

b)

Romania

c)

Ghana

d)

China

5.

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

a)

Winston Churchill

b)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

c)

Joseph Stalin

d)

Lady Gaga

6.

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

a)

Mexico

b)

Bolivia

c)

Argentina

d)

Chile

7.

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

a)

The encounter Nasa had with ET

b)

A Pepsi commercial promoting Pepsi "Air" in a can

c)

A wrongly sent message about an incoming missile attack

d)

The election of a brown bear as the mayor of Karachi

8.

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

a)

He told everyone he had spotted Saturn's rings

b)

He proclaimed that the moon was made out of cheese

c)

He said the sun was a space-volcano

d)

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

9.

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

a)

Uzbekistan

b)

The Vatican

c)

Cuba

d)

Magadan (Russia)

10.

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

a)

Madagascar

b)

Thailand

c)

Sri Lanka

d)

Somalia

11.

Some of the questions in this quiz are pure fiction & made up. How many?

a)

None of them, all questions were true.

b)

All of them are fake.

c)

Only half of them are fake.

d)

Only the one about Galileo Galilei

12.

All the questions in this quiz were fake, but did you think any of them were actually real?

a)

Yes, I fell for at least a couple.

b)

I never saw this coming! I thought all were true.

c)

No, I knew they were all fake from the start.

d)

What is April Fools?