Hanukkah
Hanukkah 2
Other December Holidays
General Judaism
Grab-Bag
100
The first day of Hanukkah this year (date, or day of week...)
What is Wednesday before Thanksgiving?
100
name of candle holder for the holiday and number of candles it holds
What is Menorah, nine?
100
December 25th
What is Christmas?
100
The three major sects of Judaism
What are Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox?
100
World's two largest religion?
What are Christianity and Islam?
200
Name of the candle used to light the other ones
What is the Shamesh?
200
The four letters on the Dreidel(must name all four)
What are Nun, Gimel, Shin, Hei.
200
Holiday to signify when Jesus was born
What is Christmas?
200
The significance of Simchat Torah
What is the finishing of reading the torah scroll?
200
most asked for gift this year
What is gift cards?
300
First day of Hanukkah on the Jewish Calendar
What is the 25th of Kislev?
300
The next time Thankgivukkah will happen again
What is 750,000 years?
300
Dates of Kwanzaa this year?
When is Decmember 26th- January 1st?
300
The three eight day Jewish Holidays
What are Hanukkah, Sukkot, and Passover?
300
name 5 famous Jewish people
What is many answers
400
Total number of Candles used throughout the eight days? (DAILY DOUBLE!!!)
What is 44?
400
The rulers of the Jewish people during the time of the Hanukkah story
Who is the Syrian-Greek Rule?
400
Year Kwanzaa began (or decade)
What is 1966?
400
the approximate number of Jews in the world
What is 14 million?
400
Location of the 2014 Winter Olympics
What is Sochi, Russia?
500
Which is lit first during Hanukkah--The Hanukkah or Shabbat Candles?
What are the Hanukkah candles? Lighting candles is "work" so you do not light them during Shabbat, which starts after the Shabbat candles are lit.
500
The most popular spelling of the holiday?
What is "Hanukkah?
500
Reasons people have Christmas trees
What is that Evergreen trees are a symbol of life during winter...also star on top is to represent angels.
500
Name eight of the ten commandments
What are: Worship no other gods. Do not worship idols. Do not misuse the name of the Lord. Keep the Sabbath holy. Honor your father and mother. Do not murder. Do not commit adultery. Do not steal. Do not give false testimony Do not covet.
500
First Jewish holiday of 2014 (besides Shabbat)
What is Tu Bishvat?
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