Symbols & Objects
The special candle used to light the others.
What is the Shamash?
This word means "dedication", the reason for the season.
What is Hanukkah?
What are latkes?
How many nights does Hanukkah last?
What is eight?
The family of brave Jewish warriors who faught against the Greeks to take back their temple?
Who are the Maccabees?
The nine-branched candelabra used for Hanukkah.
What is a Menorah?
What is another phrase used to describe Hanukkah?
What is the Festival of Lights?
Aside from latkes, what are other fried foods eaten during Hanukkah?
What are jelly filled doughnuts?
What are the 4 colors often associated with Hannukah?
What are blue, white, silver, gold or yellow?
The ancient city where the temple was located?
What is Jerusalem?
The colorful toy with Hebrew letters.
What is a Driedel?
What time of day (morning or sundown) is the menorah lit?
What is the menorah is lit everyday during sundown?
Why eat food fried in oil during Hanukkah?
What is because of the miracle of the oil?
How many candles are in the menorah?
What is nine candles?
The small amount of something that miraculously lasted for eight days?
What is Oil? or What is the Curse of the Oil?
In which month of the Jewish calendar does Hanukkah usually happen?
What is the month of Kislev?
True of False: Hannukkah doesn't fall on the same days every year.
What is True?
Chocolate coins given to kids during Hannukah and in the game dreidel?
What is Gelt?
True or False: Gifts where not always given for Hanukkah.
What is True?
Why were the Macabees and the Greeks fighting against each other?
What is because the Greeks were trying to stop all rituals of the Jewish community?
The Hebrew letters on the driedel stand for "A great miracle happened there".
What are Nun, Gimel, Hey, and Shin?
What were drediels traditionally made out of?
What is clay?
What kind of oil is used during Hanukkah?
True of False: There is only one way to spell Hanukkah.
What is False?
True of False: Hannukah is the most important holiday in the Jewish year.
What is false?