Rosh Hashanah Jeopardy

Traditional/symbolic Foods

100

A red fruit with many seeds eaten on Rosh Hashanah

What is a pomegranate?

200

A fruit we dip in honey on Rosh Hashanah

What is an apple?

300

The shape of our challah bread on Rosh Hashanah

What is round?

400

A specific food we eat that symbolizes the meaning of the holiday

What is a fish head?

500

Types of food we specifically don't  eat on Rosh Hashanah 

What are vinegar based/sour foods, nuts

Traditions

100

The amount of days the holiday lasts for 

what are 2 days

200

The prayer we recite before we start any holiday meal

What is kiddush?

300

The prayer book we use during the high holidays

What is a Machzor?

400

What we eat on the second day of Rosh Hashanah

What is a new fruit

500

what we do the first afternoon of Rosh Hashanah to cast away our sins

What is Tashlich

All about the Shofar

100

The names of all 3 different types of shofar sounds 

What is Tekiah, Shvarim, Teruah

200

 The preferred animal's horn for the Shofar

What is a ram's horn?

300

The amount of Shofar sounds heard in synagogue every day of Rosh Hashanah

100 blows

400

What the shofar blowing means to us 

1. On Rosh Hashanah we coronate G‑d as King of the world. The shofar’s trumpeting call heralds this exciting event.
2. Its piercing wail serves to awaken slumbering souls that have grown complacent.
3. It evokes the shofar blasts that were heard when G‑d descended on Mount Sinai and gave us the Torah.
4. It echoes the cries of the prophets who urged Israel to mend their ways and return to G‑d and His commandments.
5. It reminds us of the war cries of our enemies as they broke into the Temple in Jerusalem and destroyed it.
6. Made of a ram’s horn, the shofar recalls the near-sacrifice of Isaac, who was saved when G‑d showed Abraham a ram to bring as an offering in his stead.
7. Its loud piercing sound humbles us and fills us with awe before G‑d.
8. It foreshadows the day of judgment at the end of days, which the prophet describes as “a day of shofar and alarm against the fortified cities and against the high towers.”2
9. It gives us hope, mirroring the sound of the “great shofar” that will call together the Jewish people who are scattered to the corners of the earth at the time of the coming of Mashiach.
10. It reminds us of the Revival of the Dead, about which we read, “dwellers of the earth ... a shofar is sounded you shall hear.”3

500

People required to hear the Shofar on Rosh Hashanah

Men and boys over Bar Mitzvah, Women and girls over Bat Mitzvah, EVERY SINGLE CHILD should come to hear it- (they are however, not obligated)

Bonus fun facts

100

The meaning of Rosh Hashanah

What is "Head of the Year"

200

What we are forbidden to do on Rosh Hashanah when it falls out on Shabbat

We are forbidden to blow the Shofar on Rosh Hashanah when it falls out on Shabbat 

300

What girls light on both nights of Rosh Hashanah

What are candles 

400

What happens on Rosh Hashanah 

Hashem judges us, we celebrate because we know that he will bless us with a good year 

500

The greeting we tell each other after we return home from the synagogue at night 

For boys - "לשנה טובה תכתב ותחתם"

For girls- "לשנה טובה תכתבי ותחתמי"