People
Kohen Gadol during this time.
Who was Mattityahu?
The number of candles (not shamash) we light on the first night.
The amount of days that the Menorah stayed lit.
What is 8?
The city of the Beit HaMikdash.
Where is Yerusholyim?
Types of foods eaten.
What are oily foods?
The name of the ruling family of Judah
Who was Hasmoneaons or Macabi?
The song people sing after lighting the candles.
What is Mah Otzur?
The nation that rebelled against the Greeks.
What is Yehuda or Jews?
The city in which the Hasmoneans lived.
Where is Modiin?
The date of the first night of Chanukah (Jewish Calendar).
When is the 25th of Kislev?
The invading leader's name.
Who was Antiochus?
The amount of blessings said on sixth night.
What is two?
The animal used by the invaders in their fight.
What were war elephants?
The city that the invaders came from.
Where is Damascus?
Each side of the drediel letters stands for (in Hebrew, in order).
What is Nes, Gadol, Hiya, Sham?
8 Jews who became martyrs for refusing to eat pork.
Who was Hannah and her seven sons?
The location of the Chanukiah.
Where is opposite the Mezuzah?
Mitzvot banned during this era. (name 2)
What was Brit Milah, Rosh Chodesh, Shabbat?
The largest city that Herod built.
Where is Caesarea?
The first president to officially recognize Chanukah by lighting the "National Menorah".
Who was Jimmy Carter (in 1979)?
The name of a Kohen Gadol instituted by the invaders. (two possible answers)
Who was Jason or Menelaus?
A little-known Italian custom involving a fast day.
What is using the candle from reading Eicha on Tisha Ba'av as the Shamash?
The food that Yudit gave Holofernes.
What is goat cheese?
Location of the fall of the Bar Kochba Revolt, who descended from the Maccabees?
The 2 brothers who ended the Hasmonean dynasty
Who was Aristobulus II and Hyrcanus II?