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This food is eaten by Jewish people on Rosh Hashana as they recite: "May it be your will that we be like the head (leaders) and not like the tail (followers)."
A) Crown roast
B) Head of a cow
C) Head of a fish or sheep
D) Brisket
This Jewish NFL player was a quarterback and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
A) Mark Levy
B) Ron Mix
C) Benny Friedman
D) Harry Newman
Stan Lee was a Jewish American comic book writer created all of the following characters except...
A) Hulk
B) Iron Man
C) Captain America
D) Aquaman
This Jewish comedian said, “My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.”
A) Billy Crystal
B) Jerry Seinfeld
C) Rodney Dangerfield
D) Joan Rivers
This Christmas song was NOT written by a Jewish person.
A) Jingle Bells
B) Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer
C) White Christmas
D) Winter Wonderland
This food is eaten on Rosh Hashanah to symbolize the hope of a sweet and good future.
A) Beets
B) Apples and Honey
C) Figs and Dates
D) Pomegranates
Agnes Keleti is a Jewish Olympic athlete who won 10 medals in 3 Olympiads during the 1940s and 1950s in this event.
A) Gymnastics
B) Swimming
C) Track and Field
D) Diving
On the afternoon of Frank Sinatra’s death, his daughter, Nancy, was preoccupied — watching the series finale of this famous tv show, causing her to miss her father's death. (He had a heart attack.)
A) Friends
B) Cheers
C) Seinfeld
D) Curb Your Enthusiasm
Jewish comedian that is famous for the one-liner, “Take my wife, please”.
A) Henny Youngman
B) Mel Brooks
C) Carl Reiner
D) George Burns
These famous musicians are all Jewish, except...
A) Barbara Streisand
B) Dave Grohl
C) Bette Midler
D) Adam Levine
The word, meiren, which means "to increase" is the Yiddish word for this vegetable.
A) carrots
B) celery
C) onions
D) peppers
In this year, Sandy Koufax famously declined to pitch Game 1 of the World Series for the Los Angeles Dodgers, because it fell on Yom Kippur.
A) 1968
B) 1962
C) 1965
D) 1960
As of 2024, what percentage of Nobel Prize winners are Jewish?
A) 7%
B) 22%
C) 53%
D) 10%
In 1978, this percent of American standup comics were Jewish.
A) 60%
B) 17%
C) 37%
D) 80%
These 2 Jewish musicians changed their Jewish birth names and are members of the rock band KISS.
A) Ace Frehley and Gene Simmons
B) Paul Stanley and Ace Frehley
C) Peter Criss and Tommy Thayer
D) Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley
Portuguese Jews invented this food.
A) Bangers and Mash
B) Fish and Chips
C) Cottage Pie
D) Toad in the Hole
This famous Jewish athlete is NOT a boxer.
A) Al Rosen
B) Barney Ross
C) Max Baer
D) Jackie Fields
Which of the following items was NOT created or invented by a Jewish person.
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A) Invented blue jeans
B) Designed the "I Love New York" Logo
C) Invented Kevlar
D) Wrote the lyrics to the song, "Over the Rainbow"
There are this many versions of Adam Sandler's "Chanukah Song".
A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4
Jewish actor Jason Alexander performed in all of the following Broadway musicals except...
A) A Christmas Carol
B) The Producers
C) Merrily We Roll Along
D) South Pacific
The "Jewfish" swims our waters today, but after complaints of cultural insensitivity, its name was officially changed to this in 2001.
A) butterfish
B) bowfin
C) pickerel
D) goliath grouper
With 174 career wins, Kenny Holtzman is the winningest Jewish pitcher of all time. He played for all of the following MLB teams except...
A) Oakland Athletics
B) Chicago Cubs
C) Baltimore Orioles
D) Cleveland Indians
George Lerner, a Jew of Romanian descent invented this famous childhood toy.
A) Mr. Potato Head
B) Magic 8 Ball
C) Hula Hoop
D) Lite-Brite
In early 1965, at the suggestion of this comedian, Johnny Carson gave Joan Rivers her first appearance on the "Tonight Show".
A) Lucille Ball
B) Bill Cosby
C) Mel Brooks
D) Phyllis Diller
This Jewish composer wrote the score for West Side Story.
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A) Irving Berlin
B) Stephen Sondheim
C) Leonard Bernstein
D) Jule Styne