Jewish History
The prophet who led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt
Who is Moses?
The young diarist who hid with her family in an Amsterdam annex during World War II
Who is Anne Frank?
The eight-day festival of lights celebrated with a menorah
What is Chanukkah?
The Jewish scientist who developed the first successful polio vaccine in the 1950s
Who is Jonas Salk?
The six-pointed symbol at the center of Israel’s flag
What is the Star of David?
The ancient city where King Solomon built the First Temple
What is Jerusalem?
The Supreme Court justice nicknamed the Notorious RBG
Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
The spring holiday marked by a Seder meal that retells the Exodus from Egypt
What is Passover?
The Israeli-founded navigation app that Google bought in 2013
What is Waze?
Percent of Israelis that receive their hot water from rooftop solar heaters (must be within 3%, rounded to the nearest whole number)
What is 85%?
Israel's first prime minister
Who is David Ben-Gurion?
The Kyiv-born Israeli prime minister who served from 1969 to 1974
Who is Golda Meir?
Year that the first menorah was brought into space by a Jeff Hoffman
What is 1993?
True or false: a Jew invented the ballpoint pen
What is false?
The first five books of the Hebrew Bible, also called the Torah
What is the Pentateuch?
The year in the Common Era when Titus and his Roman legions destroyed the Second Temple
What is 70?
The creator of the first known television system
Who is Boris Rosing?
The original purpose of the driedel
What is a decoy used to cover up torah study?
The Bavarian-born Jewish businessman whose company helped patent riveted blue jeans in 1873
Who is Levi Strauss?
Percent of Israeli children who have a peanut allergy (must be exact, rounded to first decimal place)
What is 0.2%?
The 1492 royal decree from Ferdinand and Isabella that expelled Jews from Spain
What is the Alhambra Decree?
The Polish doctor and educator who ran a Warsaw Ghetto orphanage and stayed with the children until the end
Who is Janusz Korczak?
The purpose of covering the challah with a cloth until after we say the blessing for the wine
What is so that the bread's feelings do not get hurt, as we are legally supposed to say the prayer for the bread first?
The German-Jewish chemist who won the 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for synthesizing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen
Who is Fritz Haber?
Most words in a sentence that was written by a Jewish author (must be within 10)
What is 426?