Hanukkah Heroes and Villains
I Didn't Know That!
Maccabee Geography
Hanukkah Vocab
Spin My Head
100
He was known as the Hammer and took over the Jewish revolt from his father the priest.... Say it in Hebrew:
Who was Judah Maccabee -Yehudah ha macabee יהודה המכבי
100

Hanukkah is celebrated during this Hebrew month and date

What is the 25th of Kislev?

100
This is the country of origin of King Antiochus
What is Syria?
100
This what we call special coins at Hanukah...For extra points: what language is that word?
What is gelt? -yiddish
100

When playing dreidel, this means take the whole pile

What is Gimel

200
He was the priest, father of five sons known as the Maccabees, who first rebelled against the Greek-Syrian rulers. For extra points: Say it in Hebrew:
Who was Mattathias-Matityahoo מתתיהו
200
This is the only thing we are allowed to do with the hanukiah
What is look at it?
200
This is the country of origin of Alexander the Great, the original conqueror of the region where Israel was situated. Hint: His reign was known as the Hellenistic age
What is Greece?
200

These are two names for the spinning toy of Hanukkah

What are dreidel and sevivon?

200
We eat this type of food to remember the miracle of the oil
What is fried?
300
The Syrian King, who in 167 B.C.E. forbid Jewish practices in an effort to Hellenize (make Greek) all the Jews
Who was Antiochus?
300
Three things forbidden to Jews during the reign of Antiochus
What are Shabbat, circumcision and celebrating Rosh Hodesh?
300

This is the town in which Matitiyahu and his five sons lived

What is Modeh-in מודיעין

300

This is the definition of the word Hanukkah

What is Rededication?

300
How the area in which the Maccabees rule was known
What is Judea?
400

Number of sons (known as the Maccabees) of Matitiyahu the priest who began the Jewish revolt-For extra points: Can you name them?

What is five?---Simon, Judah, Yochanan, Elazar, Jonathan

400

The story of Hanukkah is not included in this holy book

What is the Torah?

400
This is the city in which the Beit HaMikdash (Temple) which was defiled by the Greeks stood....For extra points: can you say it in Hebrew?
What is Jerusalem? Yerushalayim ירושלים
400
This holds nine candles, one for each night of Hanukah and a Shamash to light the other ones
What is a chanukia OR Hanukka menorah?
400
He ordered the desecration of our holy Beit HaMikdash, the Temple
Who is Antiochus?
500
The name by which the five sons of Matityahu were known, also means hammer
What is Maccabee?
500
This is the primary reason for the Jewish revolt against Antiochus
What is assimilation or Hellenization?
500
This is the location of where the world’s largest Menorah was displayed in 2007
What is New York City?
500

The letters on the dreidel stand for this: For extra points: say it in Hebrew

What is A Great Miracle Happened There? Nes Gadol Haya Sham. נס גדול היה שם

500

Two traditional fried foods we eat on Hanukkah

What are latkes and soufganiot?

M
e
n
u