End of Year JEOPARDY!

Random Jewish Trivia

100

This sacred scroll lives in the Ark and is read on shabbat

What is the Torah?

200

Jews celebrate this day of rest from sundown on Friday to sundown on Saturday.

What is Shabbat?

300

Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech HaOlam, HaMotzei Lechem Min HaAretz is the blessing said over what item?

What is Challah?

400

What food do Jews eat for a whole week during the holiday of Passover

What is Matzah?

500

Can you name the 7 days of Creation?

What is:

1st: Day/Night

2nd day: Heaven/Earth

3rd day: Plants and Trees

4th Day: Sun and Moon (and Stars!)

5th Day: Fins and Wings

6th Day: Peace and Humankind

7th Day: Shabbat Rest

Israel

100

This body of water is so salty that nothing lives in it and everyone floats

What is the Dead Sea?

200

This special part of the Holy Temple is where Jews pray and leaves notes between the stones

What is the Kotel? (or Western Wall, or Wailing Wall)

300

What are the two colors of the Israeli Flag?

Blue and White

400

This metropolitan city is where you can shop, work, go to the beach, see art, and party all night!

What is Tel Aviv?

500

This desert takes up more than half of Israel's landscape 

What is the Negev?

Holidays

100

What is the name of the "helper" candle on the Chanukah Menorah?

What is Shamash?

200

During which holiday do we ask for forgiveness, and fast (do not eat for the day)

What is Yom Kippur?

300

On the holiday of Purim, whose name do we boo?

Who is Hamen?

400

This Jewish holiday is called "The Birthday of the Trees"

What is Tu B'Shevat?

500

Can you name 5 items on the Seder Plate?

Karpas (Parsley), Egg (Beitzah), Marror (Bitter herbs), Charoset (mortar), Shankbone (Z'roah)

Other: Hazeret (vegetable), Orange 

Jewish Values

100

In our classrooms, we collect this money for charity

What is Tzedakah? 

200

This is doing a good deed, or following a commandment

What is a Mitzvah?

300

In this PTBE program, we observe the Jewish value of Feeding the Hungry

What is SSH (or Sunday Sandwich Hevre)?

400

This is the value of Healing the World

What is Tikkun Olam?

500

In Yiddish, this term describes being a good person

What is a Mensch?

Hebrew

100

This word means Peace, Hello, and Goodbye!

What is Shalom?

200

This phrase means "Good Morning"

What is Boker Tov?

300

This word means to Listen, or Hear

What is Shema?

400

This is how you count, "One, Two, Three, Four, Five..."

What is "Echad, Shtayiim, Shalosh, Arbah, Chamesh..."

500

This word from our prayerbook means "And you Shall Love"

What is V'ahavta?