Diseases and Medical Issues Throughout the Exodus Story
Creatures that if you find on yourself, you would have to be quarantined for several days.
What is/are lice?
Person who caused the gradual immigration to Egypt of 70 families. (He was something of a dreamer)
Who is Joseph?
River that one of the first civilizations was based around.
Hint: Main river of Passover story
What is the Nile and the Nile civilization
Name of the republic/empire governed by Julius Caesar, Emperor Augustus and Emperor Nero.
What was the Roman Empire?
Famous president assassinated from his car in Dallas, Texas.
Who was JFK/John F. Kennedy?
One of the excuses Moses was arguing against Hashem about not having to talk to Pharaoh. Also known as "heavy of mouth and tongue".
What is a lisp?
Father of Joseph and the other 12 sons who became their respective famous tribes.
Who was Jacob or Ya'akov?
Name of the body of water that connects the Red Sea (the main open body of water of the Passover story) to the Mediterranean.
What is the Suez Canal?
Country known as the cradle of democracy.
Where is Greece?
Inventor of the printing press who was a German man.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
Disease closely related to a disease with a link to chicken. This disease is the 6th plague.
What is smallpox?
Modern concept that can be attributed to what Goshen was to the rest of Egypt (in terms of the demographics).
What is a shtetl/all-jewish settlement/jewish ghetto/jewish quarter?
Name of either of the Pharaohs in the story.
Who is Ramses I and Ramses II?
The name of the trailblazer woman who dressed up as a man to fight in the French army, won numerous battles and was burned at the stake.
Who was Joan of Arc?
Famous president who upon a visit to Quebec famously said "Vive la Québec Libre". This famous president was also a member of the Resistance in WW2 against the Nazis.
Who is Charles de Gaulle?
The person who Miriam talked "Lashon HaRa (לשון הרע)" (bad mouthed) about that eventually gave her leprosy (aka tzara'at (צרעת)).
Who is Sephora/Tzippora/ציפורה?
DAILY DOUBLE! The number of years Am Israel was in Egypt.
How many is 430 years?
Numbered dynasty the Passover story took place in Ancient Egypt.
Hint: Between 1 and 20
When was the 19th dynasty?
Name the old names of the following cities:
- New York
- Istanbul (+100 if you get 2 names)
- Mumbai
- Toronto
Where are:
- New Amsterdam
- Constantinople or Byzantium
- Bombay
- York
Famous officer who was at the head of a scandal by the French government who eventually caught the attention of a certain Theodor Herzl.
Who is Alfred Dreyfus?
The disease about which the following quote talks about "The priest must examine the lesion on the skin of the flesh, and if dark hairs within the lesion have turned white, and the appearance of the lesion is deeper than that of the skin of his flesh, it is a ...". (This quote was mentioned in my parshah) (This lesion occurred to a person from Moses' family).
Who is Miriam/Moses' sister?
The religious reason why the painting of the blood of a lamb on the doorframes could be interpreted as sinful to the Ancient Egyptians.
Why is the goat an Ancient Egyptian god?
A region that was one of the causes why the Israelites had to wonder the desert. The region belonged to Egypt for a while however the Israelis in 1967 took over a bunch of land from its neighbouring countries and among the taken lands this territory was taken as well.
Who are the Philistines?
or
Where are the Philistine lands?
or
What is Gaza?
How many countries border Canada?
How many are 2: United States of America and Denmark?
Denmark via Greenland which because of the Whiskey War (not an actual war) has a border with Canada on Hans Island.
The creator of the epics known as the Illiad and the Odyssey who was blind, told his tales to storytellers (who sang the tales to the public) that eventually got written down.
Hint: Think of well known adult cartoon show characters
Who is Homer?