Six days of Creation
Genesis Geography
ology
Highest Grossing
Connections
100

What phrase appears repeatedly at the end of each day’s description to signal completion?




What is “Vayehi erev vayehi boker” (“And there was evening and there was morning”)?

100

The torah says four rivers flowed out of Eden- Pishon, Gichon, Chidekel and Perat. Chidekel and Perat are said to be THESE modern day rivers

Tigris and Euphrates

100

Mycology

study of mushrooms

100

The top-grossing film of all time (unadjusted for inflation) was briefly dethroned by Avengers: Endgame, only to reclaim its crown after a rerelease in China

Avatar

100

CUT – BACK – TRAIL – JAM

Words that follow paper

200

What law do we learn out from the fact the Torah says Vayehi Erev Vayehi Voker"

That the Jewish date starts in the evening

200

The story of the birth of humanity is said to take place in the ancient lands of Mesopotamia, which today is known as this country

Iraq

200

Entomology

Insects

200

This open world game, first developed by Markus Persson (“Notch”), has outsold Tetris and nearly every console title ever made.

Minecraft

200

LOOKING – SAFETY – STAINED – HOUR

Form ___ GLASS compounds (looking glass, safety glass, stained glass, hourglass)

300

The Torah says that on the second day, Hashem made the rakia to divide between waters. Yet it doesn’t say “ki tov” that day. According to the p’shat, why might that be?

because the division of the waters wasn’t complete until the third day, when dry land appeared?

300

The Torah says Noah's ark came to rest “in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day.” Which modern-day country contains Mount Ararat?

Turkey

300

Ornithology

Birds

300

Its title means “pocket monsters,” yet its reach has been anything but small—spanning generations, continents, and $150 billion in revenue.

Pokemon

300

MURDER – PARLIAMENT – GAGGLE – POD

 Animal group nouns (crows, owls, geese, dolphins/whales)

400

In describing vegetation on the third day, the Torah uses both “etz pri” and “etz oseh pri.” What is the difference between them according to the text?

wood itself was meant to taste like fruit, but only produced fruit instead

400

What is the biblical name of the region from which Avraham leaves on his journey?

Ur Kasdim

400

Ichthyology

Fish

400

This is the Best selling music album ever

Thriller by Michael Jackson

400

DELTA – BANK – BED – MOUTH

Parts of a river

500

In the creation of humankind, the Torah shifts grammatical number and gender several times — “Na’aseh adam... vayivra Elokim et ha’adam... oto... otam.” What might this shift reveal in the pshat of the text?

Hashem first speaks in the plural (perhaps to the heavenly court) but creates one being containing both male and female, later separated into otam?

500

The Tower of Bavel was built “in a valley in the land of Shinar," which archeologists place near this modern day city

Baghdad 

500

Thanatology

Study of Death and Dying

500

This is the highest selling book of all time

The Bible

500

CATER – TRACE – CRATE – REACT

Anagrams (all the same letters)

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