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Jewish Nobel Laureates
The Borscht Belt
100
Cleveland teenagers, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created this iconic superhero, based on the Jewish Golem legend, in 1933.
Who is Superman?
100
He was the Father of Psychoanalysis.
Who was Dr. Sigmund Freud?
100
This Hebrew letter sounds like what you do when you have a cold.
What is a Kof (cough)?
100
He served as Secretary of State under Presidents Nixon and Ford and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973.
Who is Henry Kissinger?
100
Born Joseph Levitch, this comic was half of the most successful comedy team in history and hosts a Labor Day Telethon every year.
Who is Jerry Lewis?
200
Born Stanley Lieber, Stan Lee founded Marvel Comics and created the Hulk, X- Men and this web-slinging super hero.
Who is Spider-Man?
200
He developed the first polio vaccine.
Who was Dr. Jonas Salk?
200
This Hebrew letter sounds like something you'd do at a poker table or at a horse racetrack.
What is a Bet?
200
This novelist, journalist and "Conscience of the Holocaust" won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.
Who is Elie Wiesel?
200
Born Melvin Kaminsky, this comic and filmmaker worked as a "tummler" in the Catskills and went on to make "Blazing Saddles."
Who is Mel Brooks?
300
Born Robert Kahn, Bob Kane is credited with creating this "Dark Night Detective" character.
Who is Batman?
300
This retiring radio talk show host is the author of the best-selling book: "The Care and Feeding of Husbands."
Who is Dr. Laura (Schlesinger)
300
This Hebrew letter sounds like something you might put into a martini?
What is an aleph (olive)?
300
This former customs clerk won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his Special Theory of Relativity.
Who was Albert Einstein?
300
This comic actor started his career in the Catskills before starring in early TV's "Your Show of Shows" with Imogene Coca.
Who is Sid Caesar?
400
Al Capp created this popular hillbilly comic strip set in Dogpatch.
What is Li'l Abner?
400
Dr. Paul Ehrlich won the Nobel Prize in 1908 for his discovery of a cure for this sexually transmitted disease.
What is syphillis?
400
This Hebrew letter rhymes with the opposite of "Liquid."
What is a daled (solid)?
400
This Yiddish author of such works as "Yentl" and "Gimpel the Fool" won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978.
Who was Isaac Bashevis Singer?
400
This stand-up comedian won an Emmy for voicing Rabbi Krustowsky on the Simpsons and has put on several one- man shows on Broadway.
Who is Jackie Mason?
500
This Oscar and Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist for the Village Voice also wrote Carnal Knowledge and other screenplays.
Who is Jules Feiffer?
500
Dr. Joseph Goldstein won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1985 for his discoveries about this artery-clogging substance.
What is Cholesterol?
500
This Hebrew letter sounds like a Vietnamese holiday.
What is a tet?
500
He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994, one year before he was assassinated.
Who was Yitzhak Rabin?
500
This comedian was a regular on The Hollywood Squares and starred in "The Love Bug" and "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World."
Who was Buddy Hackett?
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