Quick Trivia

March 14th, 2008 by Mike

Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday in November. Christmas is always on the 25th of December, no matter the day of the week.

When is Easter?

I trust you won’t use the internet. If you know the answer, drop knowledge in the comments (and let me know how you came to know this information…)

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5 Responses to “Quick Trivia”

  1. tammi Says:
    March 14th, 2008 at 1:57 pm

    Easter is always the Sunday after Good Friday. Hee, hee.

  2. CP Says:
    March 14th, 2008 at 5:30 pm

    easter is when jesus came back from the dead. it’s also the day that Lupa has a special over-priced menu.

  3. clay Says:
    March 15th, 2008 at 12:31 pm

    The first Sunday after Passover, I’d guess. It probably makes a ton more sense on the Jewish Calendar. I’m pretty sure those of us on non-lunar schedules aren’t going to find a simple logic. Hence it being in March some years and and April others.

    That’s the most I could muster without looking it up on the internets.

    ::c::

  4. Janice Says:
    March 15th, 2008 at 12:43 pm

    Easter comes on the Sunday after six weeks of Lent, which starts on Ash Wednesday, the day after Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday). But I don’t know how they determine the date for Mardi Gras & Ash Wednesday! There’s Epiphany, which is Jan 6th, the day the Wise Men arrived in Bethelehem, but that’s a fixed day too, so that doesn’t help. Raised Lutheran, but obviously clueless. Straight lunar doesn’t work either.

  5. Oliver Carter Says:
    April 30th, 2008 at 5:45 pm

    Easter is always the first sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. The vernal equinox almost always occurs March 21 or 22, but it can also fall on the 20th or 23d. I swear I didn’t look this up online. I know this because I have a real passion for the moon’s patterns. I put the dates of full moons in my Outlook calendar. I use the Farmer’s almanac, but (for me) the interesting thing to remember is that a “full moon” is a function of geometry, and it can only exist at one point in time. Therefore, on days when that particular moment occurs during our daytime, you can have two consecutive nights of an almost equal, slightly gibbus moon. Usually this can be detected by the naked eye, but it helps if you see the moon on a regular basis.

    Now what do I win?

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