Purim in Religion
Haman was hanged on this Jewish holiday.
Passover
According to Midrash, this archangel tripped Haman so he'd get in trouble with Achashverosh.
Michael
In early Christianity, the Book of Esther was re-written to add this character.
God.
Shushan is located in what today is this country.
Iran
Mordechai got in trouble for not doing this.
Bowing to Haman
Purim is the one day when Orthodox Jews say it's okay to do this.
Cross dress.
In Jewish mysticism, Purim is most compared to this Jewish holiday.
Yom Kippur
In the Book of Esther's Greek translation, Haman was born in this arch-enemy country.
Macedonia
This ancient cradle of democracy had a holiday like Purim, with drunken spoofs of the powerful.
Greece
Lacking enough missiles in 1948, Israeli prime minister David Ben Gurion ordered his air force to launch "Davidkas" – bottles filled with this.
Seltzer
God appears in the Purim story this number of times.
Zero
Some mystics say that Purim's "lots" reprised this person's ancient breastplate stones.
Aaron
The Purim grogger blots out Haman's name because he was a descendent of this tribe.
Amalek
European rabbis in the 1930s called this person the world's next Haman.
Adolf Hitler
This nation regretted exiling its Jews after Jewish funds helped sink its Armada in 1588.
Spain
In Jewish musical tradition, sad parts of the Book of Esther are chanted in the trope of this saddest book of the Bible.
Lamentations
Haman's gallows to hang the Jews was this number of cubits high, or the number of days from the first Passover seder to Shavuot.
50
In 1994, this U.S. cartoon because the first to depict part of the Esther story.
Scooby Doo
The world's largest Purim parade happens in this city.
Tel Aviv
The first Jewish ghetto was in this country.
Italy
It's Purim tradition to give mishloach manot, which are gifts of this.
Food
This is the mystical reason that some drink to excess on Purim
Alter consciousness
Biblicists connect the name Mordechai with this Babylonian deity.
Marduk
Anti-semitic propaganda uses Purim as "proof" against Jews because, at the end of the Book of Esther, Jews do this.
Engage in violence
Jews outwitted this nation's anti-immigration Balfour Declaration in the early 1940s.
England