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More Random Super Fun Facts (may or may not be about Rosh Hashanah)
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The animal most commonly used for a shofar

What is a ram?

100

The meaning of the words "Rosh Hashanah"

What is "Head of the Year"?

100

Something we eat to symbolize a sweet year

What is apples and honey?

100

The number of days we celebrate Rosh Hashanah

What is 2?

100

The Torah reading on the first day of Rosh Hashanah is about his birth

Who is Isaac?

200

The name of the longest shofar blast

What is Tekiah Gedolah?

200

The greeting said on Rosh Hashanah

What is "Shanah Tovah"?

200

What we send to relatives and friends to wish them a good year

New Year's cards (easy peasy)

200

The color of the Torah covers on Rosh Hashanah

What is white?

200

The Haftarah on the first day of Rosh Hashanah is about THIS woman who prays for her child

Who is Hannah?

300

The name of the 3 short blasts of the shofar

What is Shevarim?

300

The Hebrew month that Rosh Hashanah falls in

What is Tishrei?

300

Something special about the challah that is served on Rosh Hashanah

What is the fact that it is round?

300

The number of days in between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

What is

300

The main person who wrote the US Declaration of Independence and the year he wrote it

Who is Thomas Jefferson in 1776?

400
The blessing said before the shofar blast

What is the Shehecheyanu?

400

The meaning of the word "Teshuva"

What is "repentance"?

400

The ceremony to symbolically throw away our sins

What is Tashlich?

400

The name of the special prayer book used on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

What is Machzor?

400

The Hebrew word for apple

What is tapu'ach?

500

What does the shofar symbolize?

A reminder that Abraham offered a sacrifice instead of his son Isaac

500

2 other names for Rosh Hashanah

What is Yom Hazikaron or Yom Teruah?

500

The color that is traditionally worn by the rabbi and cantor during the holidays

What is white?

500

The Hebrew year being celebrated this year

What is 5785?

500

The amount of times more that a giraffe is most likely to get struck by lightning

What is 30x more likely to happen?

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