He was known as the Hammer and took over the Jewish revolt from his father the priest....
Say it in Hebrew:
Who was Judah Maccabee
-Yehudah ha macabee יהודה המכבי
100
Hanukah is celebrated during this Hebrew month and date
What is the 25th of Kislev?
100
This is the country of origin of King Antiochus
What is Syria?
100
This what we call special coins at Hanukah...For extra points: what language is that word?
What is gelt?
-yiddish
100
When playing dreidel this means take the whole pile
What is Gimmel
200
He was the priest, father of five sons known as the Maccabees, who first rebelled against the Greek-Syrian rulers. For extra points: Say it in Hebrew:
Who was Mattathias-Matityahoo מתתיהו
200
This is the only thing we are allowed to do with the hanukiah
What is look at it?
200
This is the country of origin of Alexander the Great, the original conqueror of the region where Israel was situated. Hint: His reign was known as the Hellenistic age
What is Greece?
200
These are two names for the spinning toy of Hanukah
What are dreidle and sevivon?
200
We eat this type of food to remember the miracle of the oil
What is fried?
300
The Syrian King, who in 167 B.C.E. forbid Jewish practices in an effort to Hellenize (make Greek) all the Jews
Who was Antiochus?
300
Three things forbidden to Jews during the reign of Antiochus
What are Shabbat, circumcision and celebrating Rosh Hodesh?
300
This is the town in which Matitiyahu and his five sons lived
What is Modeh-in מודיעין
300
This is the definition of the word Hanukka
What is Rededication?
300
How the area in which the Maccabees rule was known
What is Judea?
400
Number of sons (known as the Maccabees) of Matityahoo the priest who began the Jewish revolt-For extra points: Can you name them?
What is five?---Simon, Judah, Yochanan, Elazar, Jonathan
400
The story of Hanukah is not included in this holy book
What is the Torah?
400
This is the city in which the Beit HaMikdash (Temple) which was defiled by the Greeks stood....For extra points: can you say it in Hebrew?
What is Jerusalem?
Yerushalayim ירושלים
400
This holds nine candles, one for each night of Hanukah and a Shamash to light the other ones
What is a chanukia OR Hanukka menorah?
400
He ordered the desecration of our holy Beit HaMikdash, the Temple
Who is Antiochus?
500
The name by which the five sons of Matityahu were known, also means hammer
What is Maccabee?
500
This is the primary reason for the Jewish revolt against Antiochus
What is assimilation or Hellenization? For extra points, explain assimilation
500
This is the location of where the world’s largest Menorah was displayed in 2007
What is New York City?
500
The letters on the dreidle stand for this:
For extra points: say it in Hebrew
What is A Great Miracle Happened There?
Nes Gadol Haya Sham. נס גדול היה שם
500
Two traditional fried foods we eat on Hanukka (hint: one is made of potatoes and one is Hebrew for donuts)