April Fools' Day Trivia
From spaghetti trees to paper fish, test your knowledge of history’s greatest hoaxes before you get clowned like a 16th-century Frenchman.
EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
A classic April Fools' food prank involves dismantling an Oreo and replacing its sweet cream filling with what common bathroom staple?
Toothpaste
In 2015, Google added a functional mini-game to its Maps interface that allowed users to evade ghosts while navigating real-world city street mazes as which character?
Pac-Man
Pope Gregory XIII introduced the Gregorian calendar primarily to fix the Julian calendar's drift and accurately calculate the date of which religious holiday?
Easter
Which Hindu spring festival involving light-hearted pranks and the throwing of colored powders is often cited as an ancient influence on April Fools' Day traditions?
Holi
According to a 1983 hoax, Emperor Constantine started the tradition of April Fools' Day by appointing a jester named Kugel to what temporary position?
King