Hanukkah Numbers
Hanukkah Potpourri
2024 Film/TV
2024 Potpourri
2024
Pop Culture
Pop Culture
100
The number of Maccabee brothers.
What is five?
- Judah Maccabeus: The third son of Mattathias, who led the revolt against the Seleucid ruler Antiochus IV Epiphanes
- John Gaddi
- Simon Thassi
- Eleazar Avaran
- Jonathan Apphus
100
This is what the name Maccabee means.
What is "Hammer?"
100
Winner of Best Director at the 96th Academy Awards
Who is Christopher Nolan?
100
In the 2024, this country became the first to announce plans to establish a permanent base on the moon as part of its space exploration program.
What is China?
100
The number of diss tracks dropped by Kendrick Lamar and Drake during their feud.
What is 8?
"Push Ups" / "Taylor Made Freestyle" / "Family Matters" / "The Heart Part 6" / "Euphoria" / "6:16 in LA" / "Meet the Grahams" / "Not Like Us"
200
This is the number of candles needed for all 8 nights.
What is 44 candles.
200
This was the first United States president to have an official menorah candle-lighting in the White House.
Who is George W. Bush?
200
The highest grossing original movie of 2024 (not a sequel, spin-off, remake, adaptation, or tied to any existing IP).
What is IF?
It currently ranks #24 of highest grossing in 2024 with $190M
200
This European country implemented a groundbreaking law in 2024 mandating a four-day work week for most industries.
What is Belgium?
200
The most-streamed song globally of 2024 according to Spotify
What was “Espresso” by Sabrina Carpenter?
300
The month and day of the Hebrew calendar the first night of Hanukkah is celebrated.
What is the 25th of Kislev?
300
This is the Hebrew word for dreidel
What is "סביבון?"
300
Not only having two designated movies, this Broadway Musical that debuted on stage almost 10 years ago will leave you changed for good.
What is Wicked?
300
Donald Trump became one of only two presidents to be elected to serve non-consecutive terms, this U.S. president was the first.
Who is Grover Cleveland?
300
This person passed on April 10, 2024, and is sometimes remembered as Detective Nordberg in the Naked Gun Trilogy, among other police-related story-lines.
Who is O.J. Simpson?
400
In this year the Jewish revolt against the Greek/Seleucid monarchy is successful in recapturing the Temple, which is liberated and rededicated (Hanukkah).
What was 164 BCE?
400
This is what סביבון means in English (Hint: not dreidel in this question)
What is "to turn?"
400
This 2024 film, starring Dakota Johnson and Sydney Sweeney, was one of the biggest box office flops of the year earning only $43.7 million domestically.
What is Madame Web?
400
This horror-ific author published a collection of twelve stories under the title "You Like It Darker."
Who is Stephen King?
400
This author wrote a memoir about his 2022 attempted murder titled "Knife: Meditations after an Attempted Murder."
Who is Salman Rushdie?
500
This was the last time the first night of Hanukkah fell on Christmas Day.
What was 2005? 19 years ago
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500
What's the Jewish (and better) version of Secret Santa?
Hanukkah Harry! (credit:SNL)
500
This short film entered the public domain on Jan 1st 2024, featuring the earliest iteration of a famous character.
What is Steamboat Willie
500
Correctly rank these universities by their highest single mass arrest count during the pro-Palestinian protests of the spring according to the New York Times: Columbia University, Indiana University, UCLA, USC, UT Austin
1. _______ = 271
2. _______ = 217
3. _______ = 136
4. _______ = 93
5. _______ = 57
1. UCLA = 271
2. Columbia University = 217
3. UT Austin = 136
4. USC = 93
5. Indiana University = 57
500
The number of albums Taylor Swift currently has on the Billboard Top 200.
What is 14!
Swift's 14 number-one albums tie her with Jay-Z for the second-most among soloists in history, after The Beatles with 19. She also holds the record for the most weeks at number one among soloists with 86.
