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100
The leader of the armed revolt in the Chanukah story.
Who is Judah the Maccabee?
100
The Jews who adopted Greek customs, ideas, and language were called this.
What are Hellenists?
100
The meaning of loyshn koydesh.
What is ...?
100
The number of branches that the Menorah in the Temple had.
What is seven?
100
Four Yiddish words in English.
What are ...?
200
The father of the brothers who led the revolt?
Who was Matisyahu?
200
The Maccabees fought the Greeks for this reason.
What is the fact that the Greeks tried to prevent the Jews from observing Jewish religion and tried to make them follow Greek culture instead?
200
Yiddish is a fusion language that includes words from German, Hebrew, Polish, Russian, and Italian (True or False).
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200
The home town of the Maccabees.
What is Modi'in?
200
Balebusta means this.
What is a good homemaker?
300
The way that Eleazar, one of the Hasmonean brothers, was killed.
What is getting crushed by an elephant?
300
The act of defiance that began the Chanukah story.
What is the stabbing of a Greek by Matisyahu?
300
The only Yiddish writer to ever receive the Nobel Prize for literature
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300
The year that the Chanukah story took place.
What is 165 B.C.?
300
The Yiddish words for the levivot/potato pancakes, sevivon, money received on Hanukkah and Happy Hanukkah.
What are latkes, dreydel, gelt, and a a freylikhn Khanike?
400
The prophet who foretold the events leading up to the Chanukah story.
Who is Daniel?
400
A statue of this Greek god was placed in the Temple.
Who is Zeus?
400
The creator of Tevye the Dairyman (Mendele Mokher Seforim, Sholem Aleichem, or IL Peretz)?
Who was...?
400
The number of men initially in the Hasmonean Army.
What is 3,000?
400
Translation into English of the following expressions: Dos epele falt nisht veyt fun beymele and Man tracht un got lacht.
What is: the Apple does not fall far from the tree, and Man plans and G-d laughs?
500
A nickname given to Antiochus.
What is Epimanes?
500
The Greek King appointed this man as high priest.
Who is Jason?
500
Your family’s possible profession in the old country if your last name is Schneider/Snyder.
What is ...?
500
The city where many hellenists went after the war.
What is Caesarea?
500
Stuffed fish in Yiddish.
What is Gefilte Fish?