Yevanim
He lost his head to Yehudis
Holofornes
The Chashmonaim called this village home, now a rapidly growing city in Israel.
Modi'in
We have this so that if one reads near the Chanukah lights, the benefit will have been derived from something other than the candles.
The shamash
The Greeks of Chanukah weren’t very Greek- they actually came from this country.
Syria
The pasuk that MaCaBeE stands for.
Mi kamocha ba'eilim Hashem
We light the menorah from ____ to ____
Left to right
The Antiochus of Chanukah came with these Roman numerals attached.
IV
The only Maccabee to survive the war
Shimon
8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1, they say
Beis Shammai
Antiochus called himself Epiphanus (Divine), but behind his back, his soldiers called him Epimanus, which means this.
Crazy
The Chashmonaim were wiped out as punishment for taking this.
The kingship
The menorah cannot be higher from the ground than this.
20 amos
This Greek general shares a name with one of the gates of the Beis Hamikdash.
Nikanor
The first three letters of Chashmonaim stand for these three mitzvos that were outlawed by the Greeks.
Chodesh, Shabbos, Mila
He wrote a sefer with 100 answers to the question of why Chanukah is 8 days and not 7.
R' Yosef Karo