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

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