Easter Eggs
HAPPY EASTER! Here's a quiz that's all about eggs - in food items, in nature, in mythology, in literature, in movies, in cartoons, in the music scene, in popular culture, in TV commercials, and on television. Get cracking!
Quiz created by: Mtrusello
1. In the early 1990s, a national restaurant franchise launched a television commercial featuring 1950s-style singing eggs. What was the restaurant?
(#) McDonald's
(#) Burger King
(#) Wendy's
(#) Denny's
2. In the book "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", what was the name of the baby dragon that Hagrid hatched from an illegal egg?
(#) Icarus
(#) Norbert
(#) Cerberus
(#) Mrs. Norris
3. In the sequel book "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", one of Harry's tasks was to "steal" a golden egg from a nesting dragon. What type of dragon?
(#) A Norwegian Ridgeback
(#) A Hungarian Horntail
(#) A Chinese Fireball
(#) A Welsh Razorback
4. In the book "The Incredible Journey", how many eggs did Tao the Siamese help himself to in a farmer's henhouse?
(#) Four
(#) Two
(#) One
(#) Three
5. In the 1970s, which rock group promoted themselves with the grafitti-style banner, "[This Band] Sucks Raw Eggs"?
(#) Grand Funk Railroad
(#) Queen
(#) Poco
(#) Led Zeppelin
6. Who recorded the late 1970s album "Back To The Egg"?
(#) Paul McCartney
(#) Harry Nilsson
(#) Loggins & Messina
(#) Elton John
7. In a famous "Foghorn Leghorn" cartoon, which charachter is seen reading the novel "The Egg and I"?
(#) Rhode Island Red
(#) Miss Prissy
(#) Foghorn Leghorn
(#) The Chicken Hawk
8. In another famous Warner Brothers cartoon, which charachter is brought to court after he magically vanishes an egg and can't get it to reappear?
(#) Foghorn Leghorn
(#) Elmer Fudd
(#) Porky Pig
(#) Daffy Duck
9. In TV's original "The Munsters", what was it that little Eddie had personally "grown from an egg"?
(#) Wuff-Wuff, his stuffed werewolf
(#) His piggy bank
(#) Spotty, the Munsters' pet dragon
(#) The raven that lived in the cuckoo clock
10. On "Mork and Mindy", who laid the alien egg from which Mork's and Mindy's son Mearth was hatched?
(#) Mindy
(#) Bebo
(#) Mork
(#) Orson
11. Who played the arch-villain Egghead on the "Batman" TV series?
(#) Vincent Price
(#) Cliff Robertson
(#) Malachi Throne
(#) Walter Slezak
12. In this charachter's premier episode, what did Egghead threaten to drop on Robin's head?
(#) A flaming egg
(#) An acid-filled egg
(#) An exploding egg
(#) A 1000-pound concrete egg
13. What was the name of Egghead's moll?
(#) Miss Overeasy
(#) Miss Bacon
(#) Miss Foo Yong
(#) Miss Benedict
14. What bakery item forms the base of a classic Eggs Benedict?
(#) An English muffin
(#) A croissant
(#) A crumpet
(#) A buttermilk biscuit
15. In the children's book "The Secret Language", what type of being was Eggy?
(#) A rocking horse
(#) A clown
(#) A doll
(#) A hen
16. Throughout the Eddie Murphy film "Dr. Dolittle", we follow the progress of an egg. What finally hatches out of it at the end of the film?
(#) A peacock
(#) An echidna
(#) A platypus
(#) A crocodile
17. In mythology, what was the name of the goddess who transformed a hen into an egg-laying rabbit, thus originating the Easter Bunny?
(#) Eoster
(#) Zephyr
(#) Demeter
(#) Ceres
18. What type of bird lays emerald green eggs?
(#) A cockatoo
(#) An emu
(#) A Bird of Paradise
(#) A mynah bird
19. What are Faberge "eggs" made from?
(#) Bath salts
(#) Jewelled porcelain
(#) Chocolate
(#) Carved glass
20. BONUS! What famous charachter once said, "Congratulations, and Happy Easter!"?
(#) Little Orphan Annie
(#) Jughead Jones
(#) Mister Rogers
(#) Pippi Longstocking
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