Hanukkah

Treats

100

Sufganiyot

What is jelly filled donuts in hebrew

200

Fried potato pancakes eaten with sour cream or applesauce

What is Latkes

300

How do we traditionally cook food during Hanukkah?

In oil

400

Oil in hebrew

What is shemen?

500

Jews in southern Russia baked cakes with these inside for Hanukkah.

What are coins?

History

100

This king of Syria forbade the Jewish people from practicing their religion.

Who is Antiochus?

200

This Jewish man and his son refused to worship the Greek G-ds?

Who is Mattathias?

300

Who is the group who rose up to win the battle during hanukkah?

Who are the maccabees?

400

Judah and his people found these in the Holy Temple.

What are idols?

500

According to the Hanukkah story, the oil lasted eight days while the Jews were doing this.

What are cleaning and rebuilding parts of the Temple?

Light the Candles

100

What is the helper candle called?

What is Shemash

200

This holds nine candles. One for each night of Hanukkah and the middle candle to light the other ones.

What is the Hanukkiyah?

300

The first candle is placed at this place on the Hanukkiyah

What is the far right?

400

The candles are lit in this way.

What is left to right

500

The reason why we place the Hanukkiyah near the window.

What is to publicize the miracle of Hanukkah

A Little Dreidel

100

When playing dreidel, getting this letter means taking the whole pile.

What is gimmel?

200

Getting this letter means getting nothing.

What is Nun?

300

Getting this letter means getting half the pot.

What is Hay?

400

The letters on the dreidel stand for nes gadol haya sham, which means this.

What is a great miracle happened there.

500

What letter replaces Shin on an Israel dreidel?

Peh/Pay

Hebrew

100

Light.

What is or?

200

Miracle

What is nes?

300

Dreidel in Hebrew.

What is sevivon?

400

Candle.

What is ner?

500

Hero.

What is gabor?