Parsha
One character in Chayei Sarah plays a central role in the parsha but is never once mentioned by name in the entire parsha. Who is he?
Eliezer
Eminem’s chilling narrative about an obsessive fan shares its title with the slang term that fan inspired.
Stan
This communication system uses dots and dashes to represent letters and was co-invented by an American artist and inventor in the 1830s.
Morse Code
NBA star- Athens
Giannis
In this sci-fi epic, the messianic figure is called the Kwisatz Haderach — a term borrowed from Hebrew meaning “the shortening of the way.
The people from whom Avraham purchased the Cave of Machpelah in Chevron — Efron was one of them.
The Hittites
Lil Wayne’s tale of a duplicitous woman takes its title from this famous portrait.
Mona Lisa
This device for executions became infamous during the French Revolution and was named after the doctor who proposed its humane design.
Guillotine
Track and field star- Kingston
Usain Bolt
In the Coen brothers A Serious Man, the rabbi’s cryptic story about “the teeth” alludes to this mystical number of hidden righteous people who sustain the world.
After Sarah’s death, Avraham remarries a woman named Keturah. According to Rashi, who was she really?
Hagar
While Candle in the Wind was originally written about Marilyn Monroe, Elton John rewrote it after her death in 1997
Princess Diana
This amusement ride was introduced at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and named after its engineer
Ferris Wheel
Tennis legend- Bern
Roger Federer
This famous adventurer was actually based off of a Noahide archaologist, Velvel Jones, who claimed to have found the hidden Ketoret from the HOly Temple
Indiana Jones
Sara is buried in Chevron, also known as Kiryat Arba because of the four couples who are buried there. who are they?
Adam and Eve
Abraham and Sarah
Isaac and Rebecca
This famous folk singer wrote “Hurricane,” a protest song about boxer Rubin Carter’s wrongful imprisonment. After a while he stopped singing it when new evidence came out that may have actually proved Carter did it
Bob Dylan
This laboratory tool, a shallow glass dish used to culture microorganisms, was named for the German bacteriologist who invented it.
Petri Dish
tennis brat, Canberra
Nick Kyrgios
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was likely influenced by this Jewish legend
The Golem
According to Rashi, when Rivkah entered Sarah’s tent, three miracles that had ceased with Sarah’s death returned. What were they?
What are — the Shabbat candles that burned from one week to the next, the cloud of the Divine Presence that rested over the tent, and the blessing in her dough?
Though it’s been covered widely, this country legend wrote and first performed “Jolene.”
Dolly Parton
This method of preserving milk and wine by heating it to destroy microbes is named after the French scientist who developed it.
Pasteurization
Tennis legend- Belgrade
Novak Djokovic
In the film True Blood, this ancient female figure is portrayed as the first vampire, worshipped by a blood-obsessed sect — a dark reinterpretation of a figure from early Jewish mysticism known for rebelling against Adam and preying on the living.
Lilith