1.
Pancake Day, or Shrove Tuesday, is the traditional feast day before the start of ______ on Ash Wednesday.
A
Lent
B
Groundhog Day
C
Easter
2.
Lent – the 40 days leading up to Easter – was traditionally a time of _______ and on Shrove Tuesday, Anglo-Saxon Christians went to confession and were “shriven” (absolved from their sins).
A
debauchery
B
fasting
C
sadness
3.
Traditionally during Lent, Christians would give up rich, tasty foods such as butter, _____, sugar and fat.
A
bread
B
eggs
C
pasta
4.
Unlike pancakes, crêpes are much _______.
A
thinner
B
thicker
C
tastier
5.
Pancake Day ALWAYS falls on a ______.
A
Monday
B
Tuesday
C
Friday
6.
A pancake _______ has been held in Olney in Buckinghamshire since 1445. It supposedly originated when a local woman heard the church bell while she was making pancakes and ran there, frying pan in hand.
A
fry off
B
singing competition
C
race
7.
The object of the race is to get to the finishing line first, carrying a frying pan with a cooked pancake in it and ______ the pancake as you run.
