Torah
What are the first three words in the Torah
In the Beginning, (Bereshit)
What do we not eat on Passover?
Chametz, leavened grain.
Where were the Jews exiled from 587–538 BCE?
Babylon, modern day Iraq.
Who played The Nanny in the 1990s sitcom?
Fran Drescher.
Something you might call your grandkids, but it literally mean "little grandma".
Bubbele
Name three biblical plagues
Water to Blood, frogs, lice, flies, pestilence, boil, hail, locusts, darkness, death of the firstborn.
What are Jews not supposed to mix?
Meat and Dairy?
What year was the second temple destroyed?
70 AD.
Levi Strauss, inventor of this style of pants, also helped found the first synagogue in San Francisco.
Blue Jeans.
To complain
Kvetch
Who had his name changed to Israel
Jacob
What are the jelly donuts Jews eat on Hanukkah called?
Sufganiyot.
Where was the first Jewish congregation in North America founded?
Manhattan, New York.
Which Rabbi was the author of the Mishneh Torah, the Guide for the Perplexed, and the philosphical Treatise on Logic
Maimonides.
To feel overwhelmed with emotion.
Verlempt
Where was Abraham born?
Ur, Mesopotamia, modern day Iraq.
This cured sandwich meat, usually made from brisket, was invented in Romania and brought to the US by Jewish immigrants.
Pastrami.
Which French general emancipated the Jews in France, eliminating ghettos and establishing Judaism as one of the official religions of France in 1807?
Napoleon Bonaparte.
This New York music duo wrote their first song together at 15, going on to write classics like "Mrs. Robinson" "Bridge over Troubled Water" and "The Sound of Silence".
Simon and Garfunkel
A gossip or matchmaker
A yenta
Please name all 12 tribes of Israel
Reuben, Simeon, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Ephraim and Manasseh.
What part of the cow are you not supposed to eat, and why?
The back half, the sciatic nerve, because Jacob injured it when fighting with the Angel.
While Hebrew was the native language of ancient Israel, it was gradually replaced by which language after the Babylonion captivity?
Aramaic
Please name THREE Jewish actors who have had lead roles in the Star Wars franchise.
Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Natalie Portman, or Frank Oz.
This word for a technical error (often associated with computers) may come from a yiddish word meaning "to slide or skid".
Glitch (Yiddish: glitshn)