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The name the Jews gave the Syrian Greek King.
What is "Madman"?
100
Military technique used by the Maccabees to defeat the Syrian Greek army?
What is "surprise attacks"
100
Maccabee
What is the "the hammer"?
100
Number of days of Hanukah
What is 8?
100
Yiddush word for money
What is "Gelt"?
200
His nickname was the "maccabee"
Who was Judah?
200
The son who led the Jews after his father died?
Who is Judah?
200
definition of the Hebrew word Chanukah
What is "Re-dedication"?
200
Number of branches on a menorah?
What is 9?
200
This candle is used to light all the other candles?
What is "the shames"?
300
The Syrian Greek King who forbade the Jewish people from practicing their religion
Who is Antiochus?
300
The first thing the Maccabees did after their military victory.
What is clean and re-dedicate the temple?
300
Hanukiah
What is another name for menorah?
300
How many miracles in the Hanukah story?
What is 2?
300
DAILY DOUBLE: Hebrew letters on a dreidel Double points if you can name what these letters stand for.
What is nun, gimel, hey, shin? A great miracle happened there.
400
Name of the Hasmoneon priest who refused to make a sacrifice to the Greek gods
Who is Mattathias?
400
The name of the town the rebellion began in
What is "Modin"?
400
Sevivon
What is Hebrew name for dreidel?
400
The number of sons of Mattathias the Hasmonean priest
What is 5?
400
The last 4 Hebrew words in the Hanukah blessing over the candles.
What is "l'hadlik ner shel Chanukah"?
500
The nickname the Syrian Greek King called himself.
What is epiphanies, or god?
500
A rallying cry for the Maccabees
"Who Among the mighty is like You, O G-d? or "What is "Whoever is for G-d, follow me"
500
Sufganiyot
What is the Hebrew name for jelly donuts?
500
The day Hanukah occurs each year in the Hebrew month of Kislev.
What is the 25th?
500
Prayer that we sing only on the first night of Hanukah.
What is the "Sh'hechiyanu"?