Passover
This is another name for Passover?
What is Pesach?
Passover (a contraction of the words “pass” and “over”) is a translation of the Hebrew word Pesach, which means to “skip” or “jump.(Pasach)”The Israelites were instructed to take the blood of the lamb and smear it on their doorposts, a sign to G-d that this was an Israelite home, to be passed over, while death was visited upon the firstborns in all other homes
According to the Bible, this many days passed between Jesus’ death and resurrection.
What is 3?
The two COVID relief bills passed so far have spent:
a) the total wealth of all of the US billionaires
b) the same amount (inflation adjusted) as the US spent on World War II
c) both of the above
d) neither of the above
What is c) both of the above
This thinker said "Those who believe that politics and religion do not mix, understand neither."
Who is Albert Einstein?
Even pre-COVID, hands are washed this number of times, according to tradition, during the Seder evening?
a)4
b)8
c)2
d)6
What is c –2
Ceremonial hand washing is performed twice, once after the Kiddush (blessing over the wine) and once right before saying the blessing over the matzah
DAILY DOUBLE (sort of)
This is the color of the first Easter eggs
What is red?
Double?
They were red to represent this.
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 gave this amount to transportation (+/- $5)
What is $48.1 billion?
This independence leader said, "Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is."
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
DAILY DOUBLE! (sort of)
This is the most important figure in Passover.
a)Abraham
b)Ezekiel
c)Moses
d)Jacob
Who is Moses?
Which Biblical figure is invited to the Passover Seder?
a)Moses
b)Jacob
c)Abraham
d)Elijah
Buying this for Easter is said to bring good luck for the rest of the year?
What is new clothes?
DAILY DOUBLE (sort of, again)
President Biden calls for this amount (+/- $% billion) in transportation infrastructure and resilience.
What is $621 billion in transportation infrastructure and resilience. $571B for transpo, $50B resilience
Q2: This amount is for water infrastructure.
This clever writer wrote "In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination"
Who is Mark Twain?
In this city, the world's largest matzah ball created in 2010?
a)Jerusalem
b)Kathmandu
c)Athens
d)Tucson
What is D–Tucson?
In a 2010 Jewish Food Festival held in Tucson, Arizona, history was made when the largest matzah ball in the world was created. The gargantuan matzah ball, which was made with over a thousand eggs, reportedly weighed about 488 pounds.
This city holds the world-record for the largest chocolate Easter egg.
a) Jerusalem, Israel
b) Stockholm, Sweden
c) Tosca, Italy
d) Tucson, USA
What is Tosca, Italy?
It weighed 15,873 pounds, 4.48 ounces, with a circumference of 64 feet, 3.65 inches.
CNN had "harsh words" for the new infrastructure plan with an article titled "Infrastructure was a Trump punchline but is a window into _______"
What is Biden's Soul?
This prolific writer once said "As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?"
Who is Stephen King?
This city hosts the world's largest Passover Seder every year.
a)Jerusalem
b)New York City
c)Stockholm
d)Kathmandu
d-Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal is famed for playing host to the largest Passover Seder in the world every year. Thousands of people from all over theworld often take trips to Kathmandu to be part of this spectacular event.
In countries including Greece, Mexico and Spain, this is burned during Easter bonfires.
What are Effigies of Judas?
The Biden Infrastructure Plan, identically to the Trump Infrastructure Plan, uses this type of math in determining pay-fors.
What is "fuzzy" or "Hill" math?
Justices Ginsberg and Scalia would have agreed with this formative document writer who said "I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend."
Who is Thomas Jefferson?