The Homeland
Yiddishe Mishegas
Film and Literature
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General Knowledge
100
Grandma's favourite flavour of yogurt.
What is blueberry?
100
A _________ (fool)l is the traveler who spills his coffee on a fellow passenger. A _______ (one prone to misfortune) is the fellow he spills it on.
What is the difference between a shlemiel and a shlimazel?
100
The year this film was released.
What is 1994?
100
The countries that use this currency name include Algeria, Bahrain, Jordan, Iraq and Tunisia.
What is the dinar?
100
Peter studied for his physics exam.
In this sentence, identify the predicate.
What is "studied for his physics exam"?
100
The number of countries in the European Union (+/- 2)
What are 27?
200
Three of Grandpa's favorite expressions
What are:
I may be dizzy but I'm that dizzy.
any others by acclamation
200
The translation of the Yiddish for a long story
What is a magillah?
200
These lines from the movie:
Charlie: They said you was hung!
Bart: And they was right!
What is "Blazing Saddles"?
200
These three continents are intersected by the equator.
What are South America, Africa and Asia?
200
The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” is a pangram. (So what is a pangram?)
What is a sentence that contains every letter in the language?
200
The difference between a fruit and a vegetable.
What is, a fruit develops from the flower of a plant, while the other parts of the plant are categorized as vegetables. ... Fruits contain seeds, while vegetables can consist of roots, stems and leaves.
300
This monument was opened in 1883, designed by John A. Roebling and promoted by Boss Tweed.
What is the Brooklyn Bridge?
300
Complete this common Grandma phrase, in Yiddish:
I need it like I need _______________.
What is "a luchen kup"?
(a hole in the head)
300
This famous quotation is from a book much loved in the family:
“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
300
This country has this guy as its national animal:
What is Scotland?
300
This punctuation reduces a statement whose meaning can be implied or deduced.
What is an ellipse?
300
This country's flag:
Which is The Netherlands?
400
Four stations in Brooklyn on the F train, Manhattan-bound, after Avenue X
What are: Avenue U, Kings Highway, Church Ave., Ditmas Ave., Avenue N....
400
If you have too many of these things in a room, it can start to look like this (in Yiddish -- trinkets, overdone, busy)
too many tchatchkes...ungapatchkit
400
Larry's top movies included these. Name four.
What were "Godfather 1 and 2," "Casablanca,"Citizen Kane," and "The Big Lebowski".
400
The names of the countries from north to south:
400
1. The definition of toothsome.
2. The definitions of tautology.
1. What is "extremely pleasing to the sense of taste"?
2.
- the saying of the same thing twice in different words, generally considered to be a fault of style (e.g., they arrived one after the other in succession ).
LOGIC
a statement that is true by necessity or by virtue of its logical form.
400
The leading cause of childhood death in the US
What is "Unintentional injuries"—such as those caused by burns, drowning, falls, poisoning and road traffic—These are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality among children in the United States.
500
Name three restaurants in Brooklyn that Grandma and Grandpa loved. They can also no longer exist.
What are Joe's of Avenue U, The Dairy Restaurant, Spumoni Gardens, Dubrow's, Famous, Sheepshead Bay diner
500
Name four traditional Passover dishes (Yiddish names only are allowed)
What are:
kreplach in chicken soup
charoseth
matzo kugel
tzimmes
brisket
500
And indeed there will be time
To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?”
These are lines from which poem written by whom?
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot
500
What is Stockholm?
500
Identify the following verbs according to their tenses:
1. I am doing
2. I have done
3. I have been doing
4. I was doing
5. I had done
6. I will have done
- Present Perfect
I have done - Present Perfect Continuous
I have been doing - Past Simple
I did, I did do - Past Continuous
I was doing - Past Perfect
I had done - Past Perfect Continuous
I had been doing - Future Simple
I will do - Future Continuous
I will be doing - Future Perfect
I will have done - Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been doing
What are:
1. present continuous
2. present perfect
3. present perfect continuous
4. past continuous
5. past perfect
6. future perfect
500
A Manhattan
What do you get when you combine two-and-a-half ounces of Scotch with one ounce of sweet vermouth and a dash of Angostura bitters?