Jewish Foods
Two foods that are eaten together and symbolize a sweet new year.
What are apples and honey?
The number of candles that we light on the final night of Chanukah.
What is 9 candles?
The part of the Holy Temple that still remains in Israel today.
What is the Kotel or Western Wall?
Yiddish word meaning “to complain.”
What is kvetch?
This famous Israeli starred as Wonder Woman.
Who is Gal Gadot?
This type of food is associated with the holiday of Shavuot.
What are dairy foods?
The number of plagues in the Passover story.
What is 10?
The state of Israel is this many years old.
What is 76?
Yiddish word for crazy, mad, or absurd?
What is meshuga?
Jewish actress known recently for her roles in the Marvel Universe as Black Widow.
Who is Scarlett Johansson?
This food is known as the "Jewish penicillin."
What is Matzah Ball Soup?
On which holiday did the Israelites receive the Torah?
What is Shavuot?
The world's lowest place on earth is located in Jordan and Israel, with an elevation amounting to approximately 414 meters below sea level.
What is the Dead Sea?
This verb means to haul or to move with effort.
What is schlep?
This director is known for films such as Jaws, Indiana Jones, and E.T.
Who is Steven Speilberg?
Name four foods found on a Pesach seder plate.
What are the hard-boiled egg (beitzah), charoset, horseradish (maror), shank bone (zaroa), and parsley (karpas)?
The meaning of the words Rosh Hashanah.
What is “head of the year?”
The first Prime Minister of the State of Israel.
Who is David Ben Gurion?
Something of little or no value, nonsense or nothing.
What is bupkis?
This singer plays the piano uptown.
Who is Billy Joel?
Matzah must be made within how many minutes or less?
What is 18 minutes or less?
We celebrate this on Yom Ha'atzmaut.
What is Israel's Independence Day?
Name 2 things invented in Israel.
What are text messaging, the USB flash drive, the intel core processor and Skype?
The opening to "Laverne & Shirley" used these 2 Yiddish words, one meaning an oaf, the other, an unlucky person.
What are schlemiel and schlemazel?
In 1976, this TV journalist became the first female co-anchor of a network evening news program.
Who is Barbara Walters?