NEIL SIMON
BRIGHTON BEACH
AMERICA 30s 40s
JUDAISM
NEIL SIMON PLAYS
100

The year Neil Simon was born.

What is 1927?

100

Where Brighton Beach is located in New York.

What is Brooklyn?

100

Where most Americans lived in the 1930s.

What are rural areas?

100

The Hebrew Bible has the same number of books as this Christianity's Old Testament.

What is Protestantism?

100

The name of Neil Simon's first Broadway play.

What is Come Blow Your Horn?

200

Where Neil Simon was born.

What is the Bronx, New York City?

200

It was Brighton Beach's competition in the 1980s.

What is Manhattan Beach?

200

The type of education most Americans in the 1930s and 1940s completed.

What is elementary school?

200

The fact that Judaism only worships one god puts this religion is certain category.

What is monotheism?

200

The name of the play that Neil Simon won his first Tony award for.

What is The Odd Couple?

300

The kind of childhood Neil Simon had.

What is sad and depressing?

300

This religious and ethnic group was dominate in Brighton Beach in the 18th and 19th century.

What is Judaism?

300

These laws were made to discriminate against African-American citizens.

What are Jim Crowe Laws?

300

The core text of the Jewish religion.

What is the Torah?

300

Neil Simon's first autobiographical plays.

What is Brighton Beach Memoirs?

400

Neil Simon's first Broadway experience.

What is Catch a Star?

400

Brighton Beach has the honor of being the first place in the United States to have this.

What is a bike path?

400

Jewish neighborhoods, businesses, and schools emerged as a way to maintain this.

What is cultural heritage and mutual support?

400

The weekly day of rest lasting from shortly before sundown on Friday night to nightfall on Saturday night.

What is Shabbat? (Saturday) (the Sabbath)

400

Neil Simon won a Pulitzer Prize for this play.

What is Lost in Yonkers?

500

Neil Simon died of this at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan on August 26, 2018, while hospitalized for kidney failure. 

What is pneumonia?

500

This was Brighton Beach's nickname.

What is Little Odessa?

500

During this event, unemployment rates soared, and many families struggled to meet basic needs.

What is the Great Depression?

500

Jewish houses of prayer and study.

What are Synagogues?

500

The number of plays Neil Simon wrote.

What is 49?