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AJRCA (What does this have to do with Purim?)
Random Purim Bits
Potent Potables
100
This was the name of the walled city where the story of Purim took place.
What is Shushan?
100
This is the name of the month in which Purim is celebrated.
What is Adar?
100
AJRCA was founded in this year, commonly abbreviated as Y2K
What is 2000?
100
I am Haman's wife
Who is Zeresh?
100
This condiment is made from mustard seeds.
The answer of course is onions.
200
The story of Purim took place in an ancient walled city in Persia which used to be known as Istanbul and then Constantinople, but today is known by fewer syllables as this country.
What is Iran?
200
Haman and his sons were hung on the second day of this Jewish Holiday.
What is Passover or Pesach?
200
These three rabbis founded our great school.
Who are Rabbi Stan Levy, Rabbi Stephen Robbins, and Rabbi Mordecai Finley?
200
When the king could not sleep this was what he asked to be read to him.
What are the daily chronicles or histories?
200
This is the sound a doggy makes.
What is bow wow or ruff, the way Trebek's mother likes it.
300
Traditionally Purim is celebrated on the 14th of Adar, but in this holy walled city, the megillah is not read, and Purim is not celebrated until the 15th of Adar.
What is Jerusalem
300
Haman cast his lots on this day.
What is the 13th of Nisan?
300
This man is the current President of AJRCA and tends to like making the world a better place.
Who is Rabbi Mel Gottleib?
300
Mordechai is said to be the descendant of this King of Israel.
Who is Saul?
300
You usually drink water out of one of these.
What is a toilet?
400
This was where the villainous plot to kill the king was overheard by the Hero of our story.
What is the Palace Gate?
400
This is how long Esther fasted before she summoned the courage to go see the king uninvited.
What is three?
400
AJRCA moved into UCLA Hillel, the first time, in this year?
What is 2006?
400
This is how the king chose his new queen.
What is a beauty contest?
400
The Beatles White album is this color.
Who are the Beatles?
500
Haman built this for Mordechai and the Jews, which in the end was the down 'fall' of he and his sons.
What are the Gallows?
500
In Chapter 1, King Ahasuerus made a feast in this year of his reign for all his princes and servants.
What is his third year?
500
This is the best seminary in the entire world.
What is AJRCA?
500
According to some scholars King Ahasuerus is identified as this king of Persia, who ruled from 404 BC to 358 BC.
Who is Artaxerxes II?
500
This person was Trebek's nemesis on SNL's Celebrity Jeopardy.
Who is Sean Connery?