Spring
The “April Fools' Day” quiz — Spring. It has 25 questions in five categories: World Customs, Historical Trails, Broadcast Hoaxes, Brands Goof Off, Headline Hoaxes. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
On what date is the traditional day of pranks and hoaxes observed each year?
What is the other traditional English name for this holiday?
What paper shape is…
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Which pictured London fortress were Londoners sent to in 1698 to watch a nonexistent ceremony of washing lions?
Who gave the first clear English account of this custom in 1686?
Which Flemish poet described…
In the gameWhich festival on the…
In the gameWhich ancient Roman spring…
In the gameWhat food did the BBC show being “harvested” from Swiss trees in 1957?
What did a 1962 Swedish TV prank tell viewers to stretch over the screen to get color pictures?
Which pictured planet, paired…
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Which fast-food chain joked in 1996 that it had bought the Liberty Bell?
Which chain advertised a “Left-Handed Whopper” with condiments rotated 180° in 1998?
Which service hid 150…
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In the gameWhich joke Google “tool”…
In the gameWhich birds did the BBC show supposedly flying from Antarctica to the tropics in a 2008 spoof?
What was the fictional island nation in The Guardian's seven-page travel supplement in 1977?
Which joke RFC of…
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In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.