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This phrase describes cleaning your home thoroughly in the spring.

Spring Cleaning

100

This traditional Jewish bread, typically made with eggs but no butter or milk, is eaten on Shabbat and other holidays, and is known for its braided texture.

Challah

100

Best known for his role in "Top Gun," this famous actor performed the speaking parts of Moses in Dreamwork's 1998 animated movie, "The Prince of Egypt."

Val Kilmer

100

On Aug. 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of this Washington, D.C., location.

The Lincoln Memorial

100

Prior to 2013, these items, whose consumption is very common outside of the United States, were not kosher for Passover.

Cigarettes

200

This month contains the spring equinox in the Northern hemisphere.

March

200

This ingredient is commonly used as a leavening agent in bread-making and is therefore NOT used during Passover.

Yeast

200

This Jewish actor is a direct descendent of one of the Rabbis in the Haggadah.

Hank Azaria

200

W.E.B DuBois was a prominent African American civil rights activist, scholar, and co-founder of this civil rights organization.

NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

200

In 2010, the world’s largest matzo ball was made in this city.

Tuscon, Arizona

300

Also associated with pomegranates, she is the Greek goddess of spring and nature.

Persephone

300

The word bagel is thought to have its etymological roots in the Yiddish word "beygl" which means __.

Ring

300

While no Jews have held the office of President of the United States, this U.S. President was the first to host a Passover Seder at the White House.

Barack Obama

300

The Americans with Disabilities Act, which protects persons with disabilities from discrimination in many aspects of life — including employment, education, and access to buildings and businesses — was signed into law in this year.

1990

300

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks’s best-selling novel, People of the Book, tells the tale of this famous illustrated Haggadah.

The Sarajevo Haggadah

400

This gem is the April birthstone.

Diamond

400

This Italian bread literally translates from the Italian language as the word "slipper".

Ciabatta

400

This American president was assassinated on the fourth night of Passover.

Abraham Lincoln

400

In 1890, this was the first state in the United States to grant women the right to vote.

Wyoming

400

Now replaced by the ubiquitous Horseradish, this was the original food used for Maror.

Lettuce

500

Osterfeuer, or Easter bonfires, are a tradition to welcome spring and Easter in this European country.

Germany

500

This ancient nation was the first to use beer to make bread rise.

Egypt

500

In 1973, this Apollo 17 astronaut was (incorrectly) reported to have shouted, “Manischewitz!” while walking on the Moon

Gene Cernan

500

Long before Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for a similar act, this man was arrested for sitting in the "white" car of the East Louisiana Railroad in 1892.

Homer Plessey

500

This city hosts what is often called "the world's largest Passover Seder" every year.

Kathmandu, Nepal

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