Hanukkah
It is the Hebrew word for a Hanukkah Menorah.
What is a Hannukiya?
The Jewish army fighting the Greeks
Who are the Maccabees?
It means to dedicate (dedication)
What is Hanukkah?
It's the type of oil that symbolizes this holiday
What is Olive Oil?
The Maccabee son who took over when his father passed away.
Who is Yehuda?
It is the first day of Hanukkah in the Jewish calendar
What is the 25th of Kislev
It's the meaning of the name Maccabee
(Bonus, what is the Acronym of the word)
(Mi Kamocha Ba'Elim Hashem!)
Some speculate the the first Hanukkah was a delayed celebration of this Jewish Holiday.
What is Sukkot?
True of False?
It was always tradition to give presents on Hanukkah.
What is False?
Chocolate shaped coins.
What is Gelt?
He was the one who started the Jewish resistance against the Greeks, which was later known as the Maccabean revolt
Who was Matityahu
He was the King who enacted restrictions against the Jews and desecrated the Second Temple.
Who was Antiochus?
It's another name for Hanukkah (in English)
What is the Festival of Lights?
We tend to eat foods like latkes and sufganiyot because they that THIS.
What is fried?
What is Tuesday?
What is "Chag Sameach" or "Hanukkah Sameach"?
The revolt against the Greeks began in this City
What is Modi'in?
Of a "diaspora" dreidel's four Hebrew letters, this one doesn't spin in Israel.
What is Shin?
To commemorate the bold move of Yehudit, we eat these kinds of foods.
What is dairy foods?
The number of Blessings you say on Hanukkah before lighting (& What they are)
What is 3?
Lehadlik
Nissim
SheHecheyanu
The duration of the war of the Maccabees before reclaiming the Temple.
What is 3 years?
The year the Jewish revolt is successful in recapturing the Temple and rededicating it (Hence the word Hanukkah)
What is the year 164 BCE?
He was the POTUS that had a menorah candle lighting in the White House in 2001.
Who are the Maccabeats?
The reason why we tend to light the menorahs by a window or outside.
What is Pirsum HaNess?