Spring trivia is the easiest round to drop into a family quiz night, a classroom warm-up, or a long drive, because everyone already knows something about flowers, rain, and Easter eggs.
Below are 40 spring trivia questions and answers split into four rounds of 10: one for kids, one on nature and flowers, one on Easter, and one on spring festivals around the world. Every answer comes with a fun fact you can read out for a bonus point.
There are no multiple-choice options here, so players have to come up with the answer themselves. Tap a question to reveal what is behind it.
Spring Trivia for Kids
Kids usually get left out of trivia night because the questions are pitched at adults. This round of 10 spring trivia questions is written for them, with answers a child can picture: animals, weather, and the calendar.
Read them out on a car journey, use them as a Jeopardy-style round, or let one kid play quizmaster and keep score for everyone else.
What animal hops and is a symbol of spring?
Answer: A bunny or rabbit.
Fun Fact: Rabbits have stood for fertility and new life for centuries, which is how they ended up as the mascot of a season built on rebirth.
What state gets the most rain in spring?
Answer: Hawaii.
Fun Fact: Mount Waialeale on Kauai is one of the wettest spots on Earth, averaging about 450 inches of rain a year. That works out to roughly three feet of rain every month.
What is the term for birds returning to the north in spring?
Answer: Migration.
Fun Fact: The Arctic tern holds the distance record, flying roughly 40,000 miles between the Arctic and the Antarctic each year. It gets two summers out of every calendar year.
In Spring, do the clocks go forward or backward?
Answer: Forward.
Fun Fact: In the United States, clocks jump forward at 2:00 a.m. on the second Sunday of March and fall back at 2:00 a.m. on the first Sunday of November. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 stretched daylight saving time by about a month, so it now covers roughly 65 percent of the year (1).
What is a baby rabbit called?
Answer: Kitten.
Fun Fact: Baby rabbits are also called kits. They arrive blind and hairless, so they depend on their mother for warmth and food for the first couple of weeks.
What is a young plant that grows from a seed called?
Answer: A sprout or seedling.
Fun Fact: Alfalfa and mung bean sprouts on a salad are seeds caught a few days into growing, which is why they are sold as a fresh ingredient rather than a dried one.
Finish the phrase: April showers bring May _____?
Answer: Flowers.
Fun Fact: The saying holds up. Spring rain soaks soil that has been frozen or dry all winter, and that is what gets bulbs and seeds moving in time for a May bloom.
What are the spring months in Australia?
Answer: September, October, and November.
Fun Fact: Australia sits in the Southern Hemisphere, so its seasons run opposite to North America’s. Christmas there lands in high summer.
When is Easter every year?
Answer: The first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the spring equinox.
Fun Fact: Because both the moon and the equinox drift against the calendar, Easter can land as early as March 22 and as late as April 25.
What insect makes a chirping sound on warm spring evenings?
Answer: Cricket.
Fun Fact: Male crickets chirp by rubbing their wings together, and the rate climbs as the air warms, so the chirping doubles as a rough thermometer.
Nature and Flowers Trivia
This round covers what actually changes outside in spring: the weather, the blooms, the birds, and the pollen. The questions still work for kids, but the answers give adults something to argue about.
It is a good round for a mixed table, grandparents included, since most of the answers come from the garden rather than pop culture.
Tornadoes are most common in April. True or false?
Answer: False. Tornadoes are most common in May.
Fun Fact: Tornadoes form when warm, moist air collides with cool, dry air, and that clash happens most often over the central United States in late spring.
What is the study of the Earth’s atmosphere, climate, and weather pattern?
Answer: Meteorology.
Fun Fact: Meteorologists combine satellites, radar, and computer models, and a short-range forecast can be about 90 percent accurate. Push the same models out past a week and the accuracy falls away fast.
What flowers is the Netherlands known for?
Answer: Tulips.
Fun Fact: The Netherlands runs a tulip festival every spring, when millions of bulbs open across the bulb-growing region at roughly the same time.
What flower is most associated with Easter?
Answer: Easter lily.
Fun Fact: Easter lilies are native to Japan and reached the United States in the 19th century, where the white trumpet-shaped bloom became a symbol of purity.
Name the bright flower known for trumpet-shaped petals that bloom in spring.
Answer: Daffodils.
Fun Fact: Daffodils, also called narcissus, are among the first flowers up each year and often push through before the last frost, which is why they read as the all-clear signal for winter.
How many people in the United States have seasonal allergies?
Answer: More than 82 million as of 2024 (2).
Fun Fact: That includes roughly 67 million adults and 14 million children diagnosed with seasonal allergic rhinitis. Spring symptoms usually trace back to tree pollen, with grasses and weeds taking over later in the year.
During which two months do butterflies hatch?
Answer: March and April.
Fun Fact: Warmth is the trigger. Butterflies that spent the winter as a chrysalis wait for steady spring temperatures before they emerge, so a cold March pushes the whole schedule back.
Name the white spring flower with three petals, three leaves, and three sepals.
Answer: Trillium.
Fun Fact: The trillium is also called wake-robin because it opens early, often before the robins are back. Everything about the plant comes in threes, which is where the name starts.
Name the bird, often associated with the first signs of spring, that feeds on worms and fruit, can migrate up to 3,000 miles, and has an orange breast.
Answer: American robin.
Fun Fact: Robins are among the first birds singing at dawn, which is where the nickname early bird comes from.
Which flower, available in most colors except blue, wasn’t produced in North America in the 1920s and is native to South Africa?
Answer: Gerbera daisies.
Fun Fact: Gerberas come in nearly every color except a true blue. Long stems and flat, open faces make them a florist staple for spring arrangements.
Easter Trivia Questions
Most people know the chocolate side of Easter far better than the history behind it. This round mixes both, from candy statistics and parade traditions to the church calendar.
Save it for late in the night if you are playing at a family gathering. It reliably starts the loudest arguments.
In which country did the Easter Bunny originate?
Answer: Germany.
Fun Fact: German immigrants carried the egg-laying hare, the Osterhase, to America in the 1700s, and children built nests for it to fill overnight.
What is the most popular Easter candy in America?
Answer: Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs (3).
Fun Fact: The egg arrived in 1967 and has topped Easter candy lists ever since. The flatter shape carries more peanut butter per bite than the standard cup, which is the usual explanation for the loyalty.
What is the official name for the day that Jesus was crucified?
Answer: Good Friday.
Fun Fact: Good Friday falls inside Holy Week, the stretch between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday, and Christians mark it as a day of mourning rather than celebration.
Which U.S. state has the oldest Easter parade, taking place on Fifth Avenue?
Answer: New York.
Fun Fact: The New York City Easter Parade dates back to the mid-1800s and has never been about floats. People simply walk Fifth Avenue in the most elaborate hats and bonnets they own.
What is the name for the 40 days leading up to Easter?
Answer: Lent.
Fun Fact: Lent runs 40 days without counting the Sundays, mirroring the 40 days the Gospels describe Jesus fasting in the desert.
What does Easter commemorate?
Answer: Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection.
Fun Fact: Easter, not Christmas, is the central holiday of the Christian calendar. Other dates in that calendar, including Lent and Pentecost, are counted from it.
Pretzels are associated with Easter, but why?
Answer: The twists look like arms crossing in prayer.
Fun Fact: The story goes that monks shaped leftover dough into crossed arms as a reward for children who learned their prayers. Pretzel dough also uses no eggs or dairy, which is what made it a Lent food.
How many chocolate bunnies are sold in the U.S. each year for Easter?
Answer: 91 million (4).
Fun Fact: Chocolate bunnies were first molded in 19th-century Germany, and the usual explanation for the hollow version is practical: a solid bunny that size would be too heavy to bite into.
What percentage of parents in the U.S. gift their children Easter baskets?
Answer: 66% (5).
Fun Fact: The basket traces straight back to the nest children built for the Osterhase. The shape stuck even after the eggs turned into candy and plastic grass.
Who arrived first at Jesus’ grave on Easter Sunday?
Answer: Mary Magdalene.
Fun Fact: The Catholic Church calls her the Apostle to the Apostles, and in 2016 it raised her memorial to a full feast day, putting her on the same footing as the male apostles.
Spring Across the World Trivia
Spring gets celebrated nearly everywhere, and most versions of it involve washing something away: winter, bad luck, or the previous year. This round travels from Japan to Poland to Thailand.
Two of the festivals below sit on UNESCO’s list of intangible cultural heritage, so there is a bonus point available if anyone can name them.
What is the term for the Japanese celebration of viewing cherry blossoms in spring?
Answer: Hanami.
Fun Fact: Hanami means flower viewing, and picnicking under blooming cherry trees has been a fixed spring habit for over a thousand years. The same ritual runs in Washington DC, where the National Park Service declares peak bloom on the day 70 percent of the Yoshino cherry blossoms are open.
The Netherlands is home to the largest tulip festival. But how many tulip bulbs do the Dutch produce each year?
Answer: 4.3 billion (6).
Fun Fact: The Dutch bulb trade goes back to the 1600s, when tulip prices spiked and crashed in what is now remembered as one of the first speculative bubbles.
Which country had a tradition of burning a straw doll and throwing it into the river to welcome spring?
Answer: Poland.
Fun Fact: The straw doll is Marzanna, an effigy of winter. Villages burn her, drown her, or both, in a ritual that predates Christianity in the Slavic lands.
What is the name of the holiday that marks spring’s beginning, celebrated in Central Asia, also known as the Persian New Year?
Answer: Navruz, also spelled Nowruz.
Fun Fact: Nowruz falls at the March equinox and sits on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity as a shared tradition of 13 countries, from Iran and Iraq to Kazakhstan and Mongolia.
Earth Day occurs during spring, but on what date?
Answer: April 22.
Fun Fact: Earth Day started in 1970 and is now marked in more than 190 countries, which makes it one of the largest civic observances anywhere.
Russia decorates tables with an animal-shaped mound of butter, but what is the animal?
Answer: A lamb.
Fun Fact: The butter lamb is a Slavic Easter tradition. The lamb stands for the Lamb of God, and the butter is either shaped by hand or pressed in a mold before it goes on the table.
Songkran Water Festival is a Thai festival that takes place in spring. For how many days is the festival celebrated?
Answer: Three.
Fun Fact: Songkran runs April 13 to 15 and marks the Thai new year, named for the sun’s annual passage into Aries. UNESCO added it to the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2023, and the water symbolizes washing off the past year’s misfortune.
In Bosnia, people celebrate Cimburijada, which involves eating a community meal, but what food is it?
Answer: Scrambled eggs. Cimburijada translates to “Festival of Scrambled Eggs.”
Fun Fact: Cimburijada lands on the first day of spring in the town of Zenica, where a giant pan of eggs is cooked by the river and shared with whoever turns up.
Which Hindu festival is known for colorful powder and water fights, celebrating the victory of good over evil?
Answer: Holi.
Fun Fact: Holi is the festival of colors, and the powder gets thrown at everyone regardless of age, wealth, or status. Flattening those lines for a day is part of the point.
Which country celebrates Easter with a Chocolate Bilby?
Answer: Australia.
Fun Fact: The bilby is a native marsupial with rabbit-like ears, and rabbits are an invasive pest in Australia. Swapping the bunny for a bilby turns Easter candy into a fundraiser for the animal the rabbits displaced.
