Chanukah
Israel
Food
Inventors and Inventions
Miscellaneous
100
This is what we celebrate on Chanukah instead of the Maccabees' war victory.
What is the miracle of lights?
100
This is the city in which the U.S. Embassy to Israel is currently located.
What is Tel Aviv?
100
It's the set of laws that dictate what Jews can and cannot eat.
What is kashrut?
100
A search engine founded by Eric Page and Sergey Brin (both Jewish).
What is Google?
100
She is the first Brazilian female rabbi.
Who is Rabbi Lia Bass?
200
This is the translation of the word Chanukah.
What is "dedication"?
200
These are the official languages of Israel.
What are Hebrew and Arabic?
200
It's a mixture of fruit, nuts and wine traditionally served during Passover.
What is charoset?
200
An Israeli smartphone app which routes drivers around traffic.
What is Waze?
200
While girls are blessed that they be like Sarah, Rivka, Rachel, and Leah, this is how boys are blessed on Shabbat.
What is "May G-d make you like Efraim and Menashe"?
300
This is the month (in the Jewish calendar) in which Chanukah takes place.
What is Kislev?
300
She was the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
Who is Golda Meir?
300
They are the main ingredient of hummus.
What are chickpeas?
300
Even though much of his work has been discredited, he is still considered the father of psychoanalysis.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
300
The ceremony that concludes Shabbat.
What is Havdalah?
400
This is the difference between American and Israeli dreidels.
What is replacing "shin" with "pei"?
400
The year in which Israel was founded.
What is 1948?
400
They are the conditions making an animal kosher.
What are having split hooves and chewing its cud?
400
This physicist told the world that e=mc².
Who is Albert Einstein?
400
An urban area enclosed by a wire boundary that permits activities within it that are normally forbidden in public on Shabbat. (Washington D.C. is an example)
What is an eruv?
500
These are jelly doughnuts made in celebration of Chanukah.
What are Sufganiyot?
500
He said, "If you will it, it is no dream."
Who is Theodore Herzl?
500
It is the shape of the challah on Rosh Hashanah.
What is round?
500
Sydney Loeb developed this system, which has helped bring fresh drinking water to places suffering from shortages.
What is reverse osmosis desalinization?
500
The Jewish philosophy of preserving life over any religious consideration.
What is Pikuach nefesh?
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