Hebrew
Traditions/Customs
The Story
Dreidels!
Food
100
Translate this into English:
What is Chanukah.
100
This is how many nights there are of Chanukah.
What is eight.
100
This is how many nights the oil lamp was supposed to last, when it actually lasted eight.
What is one.
100
This is the name of the classic children's dreidel song.
(BONUS 50 PTS IF YOU CAN NAME THE HEBREW VERSION OF THIS SONG)
(BONUS 50 PTS IF YOU CAN NAME WHAT LANGUAGE "DREIDEL" IS IN!)
What is "Dreidel! Dreidel! Dreidel!".
BONUSES:
What is Sivivon Sov Sov Sov.
What is Yiddish.
100
This food is potato pancakes.
What are latkes.
200
This prayer is only sung on the first night of Chanukah.
What is shehecheyanu.
200
This is what is used to hold the candles on Chanukah.
What is a Menorah/Chanukiah.
200
This is the name of the small group of Jews that beat the other, larger army.
(BONUS 100 PTS IF YOU CAN SAY THE NAME THAT THIS GROUP OF JEWS WAS CALLED, WHO CHOSE TO STICK TO THEIR TRADITIONS!)
Who were the Maccabees.
BONUS:
Who were the Chasidim.
200
This is what you win if you win the Dreidel game.
What is coins/money.
200
This is what the chocolate coins on Chanukah is called.
(BONUS 100 FOR WHAT THIS WORD TRANSLATES TO IN ENGLISH!)
What is gelt.
BONUS:
What is money.
300
This prayer is the second prayer for each candle lighting.
What is "Baruch atah Adonai Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, she-asah nisim la-avoteinu v-imoteinu ba- yamim ha-heim ba-z’man ha-zeh".
300
This game is commonly played on Chanukah.
What is Dreidel.
300
This is who the Jews were fighting in the war.
(BONUS 100 PTS FOR THE NAME OF JEWS WHO BLENDED WITH THIS CULTURE!)
Who are the Greeks.
BONUS:
Who were the Hellenists.
300
These are the four letters on the dreidel.
(BONUS 100 PTS THESE ARE THE FOUR LETTERS FOUND ON A DREIDEL IN ISRAEL!)
What are nun, gimel, hey, and shin.
BONUS:
What are nun, gimel, hey, and pey.
300
This is the type of doughnuts we eat on Chanukah.
What is jelly OR sufganiyot.
400
This is the name of the middle candle that is used to light the eight other candles each night.
What is the shammash?
400
This is how many prayers we sing when we light the candles on a normal Chanukah night (not Shabbat or night 1).
What is two.
400
This is why the Chanukah story does not appear in the Torah.
What is Chanukah happened after the Torah was written.
400
This is what the four letters on the Dreidel represent.
(BONUS 100 FOR WHAT THIS IS WHEN IN ISRAEL!)
What is "A great miracle happened there".
BONUS:
What is "A great miracle happened here".
400
This is why we eat fried foods on Chanukah.
What is to celebrate the Chanukah miracle (oil candle).
500
This is the English translation of the word Chanukah.
What is rededication.
500
Before Christmas became a popular holiday, people/kids received this instead of presents.
What is money.
500
This was the year that the Chanukah story occurred.
(Your answer can be in either the Gregorian Calendar year or the Hebrew Calendar. Both = Bonus 300 pts!)
What is 168 BCE.
BONUS:
What is 3929.
500
If you land on a shin, you must do this.
What is take coins from your hand and put them in the pot (middle).
500
This is not a Chanukah food :), but it is a Jewish pastry made with cream-cheese dough that is rolled around a filling and baked.
What is Rugelach.