Menorah Menagerie
This is a 9-pronged candelabra that we light on Chanukah.
Hint: The answer is not Menorah
What is a Chanukkiyah?
These fried potato pancakes are the most well-known Chanukah food.
What are latkes?
The oil that the Maccabees found was only supposed to last for one day, but thanks to G-d’s miracle it actually lasted this long.
What is 8 days?
Matityahu’s son who became the leader of the Maccabees.
Who was Judah?
The number of nights we light the Menorah.
What is 8?
These are chocolate coins that we eat on Chanukah to remind us of the Chanukah tradition not to give presents, but to give money.
What is gelt?
One of the Chanukah miracles happened in this place in Israel.
What is the Beit Hamigdash/Great Temple?
The reason the Maccabees started to fight back against the Greek army.
What is the leader of the Greeks made it illegal to be Jewish and began to persecute the Jews?
To remind the world about the great miracle, we place our menorah in this spot.
What is by a window or door?
The two most common things to eat on your Chanukah potato pancakes.
What are applesauce and sour cream?
The amount of time it would have taken the Maccabees to press new olive oil.
What is 8 days?
Jewish children played this game to distract the Greek soldiers in order to give their families enough time to hide their Jewish belongings.
What is dreidel?
The number of brachot/blessings we say when we light the Chanukkiyah.
Answer carefully!
What is 3 brachot/blessings on the first night and 2 on the rest of the nights?
Potato pancakes and jelly donuts are the most traditional Chanukah foods because they are cooked in this, which reminds us of the Chanukah miracle.
What is oil?
The Greeks did this to the Beit Hamigdash/Holy Temple in an attempt to damage Jewish life in ancient Israel.
What is desecrated or destroyed it?
The leader of the Greeks.
Who was Antiochus?
Many people light their menorah with candles, but some people use this liquid - it can better remind us of how the menorah in the Beit Hamigdash was lit
What is olive oil?
These are the most common Chanukah food in Israel. They are fried dough filled with jelly and covered in powdered sugar.
Hebrew answer only.
What are sufganiyot?
The Maccabees had to build a new one of these when they got to the temple because the original solid gold one was gone.
What is the menorah?
This was the greatest miracle of Chanukah.
What is the small army beating the big army?