Passover Basics
This number is featured throughout the Seder
What is four?
If you don't like the neti pot, you can use this to clear out your sinuses.
What is horseradish?
The opposite of Manishewitz Concord Grape
What is fine wine?
This supreme court justice co-authored an essay on women in the Seder.
Who is RBG?
This is Simon & Garfunkel's old friend.
What is darkness?
American Presidents
He was the first President to bring matzah into the White House during Passover.
The salt water in which we dip our parsley reminds us of this bodily secretion.
What are tears?
Intended to look like mud or mortar, this name derives from a Hebrew word that means clay.
What is Charoset?
The Bris had to be postponed because he was afflicted by this plague
What is the mohel's boil?
Former presidential candidate who has a plan for that.
Who is Elizabeth Warren?
This could shut down a summer camp just by existing.
What is lice?
DAILY DOUBLE
This girl saved her brother first, and then saved the Israelites in the desert with her well of water.
In 2019 we ate an average of 293 of these per person.
What are eggs?
Kermit shares his weekly wisdom on his web page.
What is a frog's blog?
He was a former slave who escaped, wrote an autobiography of his experience and became a leader in the abolitionist movement.
Who is Frederick Douglas?
During a house oversight committee on global warming, AOC said that by neglecting these threats, Congress had this on its hands.
What is blood?
After the Exodus, the Israelites spent this long wandering in the desert
What is 40 years?
In 1888 in Cincinnati, a Lithuanian immigrant opened the first factory making this.
What is matzah?
A disgusting river
What is the vile Nile?
Student led pro-democracy protests that captured world attention in 1988 were held here, one of the largest public spaces in the world.
What is Tiananmen Square?
If the Egyptians had used hot compresses, they could have gotten rid of these.
What are boils.
During Passover, the Coca-Cola company of NY uses this instead of corn syrup to make coke for observant Jews.
What is sugar?
If Ali Yeganeh, the owner of a restaurant on Seinfeld, prepared our Seder meal, he would refuse to serve this.
What is soup?
Inside the Egyptian ruler's bones
What is Pharaoh's marrow.
In describing his experience marching in the civil rights movement, this rabbi said, "I prayed with my feet."
Who is Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel?
Eldest children often fast the day before Passover to remember this horrible plague.
What is the slaying of the first born?
She had this special baby, gave him away, and then became his nanny and wet nurse.
Who is Yocheved, Moses' mother?
In 2009, Chef Anthony Sylvestry made one that measured 22.9" wide and weighed 267 lbs.
What is a matzah ball?
That strong and toned bone on the Seder plate must do a lot of these.
What is a shank plank?
DAILY DOUBLE
Known as "the Moses of her people," she escaped slavery and went on to rescue approximately seventy others.
This species sheds its skin about once a week.
What are frogs?
According to tradition, the Israelites spent approximately this much time in Egypt.
What is 400 years?
We use this at the Seder, but in some parts of the world it gets into the groundwater and kills plants.
What is salt water?
God brought forth a sickness but it is really hard to define?
What is a vague plague?
This rebellion during the Holocaust was planned for, and took place during Passover.
What is the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising?
The world record for the heaviest one of these was set in 1986 in Bangladesh, weighing 2.25 lbs.
What is a hail stone?
Her Royal Highness who pulled Moses out of the water
Who is Batya, Pharaoh's daughter?
This can be eaten as a dessert or used to wipe off the table.
What is sponge cake?
One who says: How long until we get to eat? I don't want to sing Dayenu. I'm so bored!
What is a Seder hater?
In escaping slavery, one did not need a ticket to stay in these safe houses along these secret routes.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Heavy rain and high temperatures have triggered an increase of their invasion in desert areas.
What are locusts?