In de Nile
This ancient tablet was the key to deciphering hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
This was David and Debra's high school.
What is Freedom high school?
Chicken or egg.
Which came first?
This President hosted the first White House Seder.
Who is Barack Obama?
This malady in frogs can be caused by chemical water pollution.
What is hermaphroditism?
These three world leaders came together for the Camp David Accords in 1978.
Who are Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin, and Jimmy Carter?
This railroad conductor helped hundred of enslaved African Americans to freedom.
Bonus: What is this person's Pesach appropriate alias?
Who was Harriet Tubman?
Moses.
This common condiment is often replaced by horseradish.
What is wasabi?
This famous painting depicts a Seder.
What is The Last Supper?
This year the 17 year locusts are returning--which are actually which insects?
Bonus: which region faced double plagues of locust swarms and COVID last year?
What are cicadas?
What is Eastern Africa?
A well-known Egyptian murder mystery: title and author.
These two US representatives and civil rights activists passed away in the last two years.
Who are John Lewis and Elijah Cummings?
We make charoset out of apples and nuts, but the Egyptians used this for their mortar.
What is mud and clay or clay and sand?
These fish generally comprise Gefilte fish.
Bonus: The Yiddish word for "broth" or "jelly gook"
What are pike, carp, white fish, and mullet?
What is yoich?
This is the formal name for mad cow disease.
What is bovine spongiform encephalitis?
Egyptian pyramids may be the tallest, but this country is home to the widest.
Bonus: What is the formula for the volume of a pyramid?
What is Mexico?
v=(l*w*h)/3
These five freedoms comprise the first amendment.
What are the freedom of: speech, religion, press, assembly, right to petition the govenment?
This event marked the end of Jewish ritual sacrifices.
What is the destruction of the second temple?
*this is why we get our shank bones from the butcher
In 2008, I ate 78 matzo balls in 8 minutes.
Who is Joey Chipmunk?
Bonus: How heavy was the largest matzo ball? (made in 2009)
What is South Dakota in 2010?
267 pounds
Feared by Ancient Egyptians, this animal possibly killed King Tut.
What is a hippopotamus?
These are God's four promises for the Children of Israel.
What are:
{1}"I will bring you out from the suffering of Egypt
{2} and I will save you from enslavement
{3} and I will deliver you
{4}…and I will take you for me as a Nation, and I will be for you, the L-rd"?
This plant family houses a seder plate essential, as well as parsnips, dill, and Queen Anne's Lace.
What is apiaceae? (or what are umbellifers?)
We talk about dipping in saltwater and dipping in charoset--but in the South, we dip something else.
What is chewing tobacco?
Humans have red blood, but these organisms have blue blood.
Bonus: How much blood is in the average human body?
What are crustaceans, spiders, octopi and some arthropods?
1.3 gallons