Apples and Honey
Gann Traditions
YK Basics
Sukkot
Shofar Trivia
100

Which is more popular - red apples or green?

Red

100

What object is blown every day of the Hebrew month of Elul at Gann Academy?

What is the Shofar

100

This holiday is considered the holiest of the Jewish calendar.

What is Yom Kippur

100

What day is the 2024 Gann Sukkot Fest?

Sun. Oct. 20, (the Sunday of Chol Hamoed)

100

What is a shofar made out of?

What is a ram's horn?

200

This variety is the most popular apple sold in the United States

What is Gala?

200

How many sukkahs did Gann build last year for the holiday of sukkot?

What is Three - on the front patio, softball field, and farm

200

Jews traditionally abstain from consuming this on Yom Kippur

What is food/drink.

200

Number of species in the lulav and etrog

What is 4

200

How many types of blasts are there?

What is four - tekia, shevarim, truah, tekia gedolah

300

The number of queen bees in a hive

What is One?

300

What special foods does Gann serve to students to celebrate Rosh Hashanah?

What are Apples and Honey

300

Some Jews wear this color on Yom Kippur

What is white

300

Minimum number of walls of a sukkah

2.5

300

A ram is a male sheep, this is a female

What is Ewe

400

The number of sides of a honeycomb cell.

What is Six

400

Which Gann rabbi and JS teacher is also a Gann alum?

Rabbi Greene

400

According to tradition, God finishes inscribing people in this book at the end of Yom Kippur

What is the Book of Life

400

The roof material of a sukkah

What is S'chach. Can you say it!?

400

The number of shofar blasts typically sounded on each day of Rosh Hashanah

What is 100

500

Type of cake traditionally eaten on Rosh Hashanah

What is apple cake OR honey cake

500

To celebrate this year round "holiday," Gann students and faculty sing in the lobby on Friday mornings. 

What is Shabbat?

500

Special greeting exchanged by Jews before and during Yom Kippur

Gmar Tov or Gmar Chatimah Tova

500

Holiday that falls on the last day of Chol HaMoed Sukkot

Hoshana Rabba

500

The circumstance when Jews do NOT blow the shofar on Rosh Hashanah

When Rosh Hashanah falls on a Shabbat/Saturday