Jewpardy

Miscellaneous

100

Name 3 Jewish celebrities

Many answers: who is Adam Sandler? Who is Barbra Streisand?

200

Name the 4 prominent branches of Judiasm

What are reform, reconstructionist, conservative, and Orthodox?

300

Name 3 Jewish facstaff members at Lick

Many answers: who is Eric Temple? Who is Ms. Maslow? Who is Mr. Johnson? etc

400

the letter that makes an "L" sound

What is lamed?

500

English translation of Maccabee

What is hammer?

Hebrew

100

What tapuach means

What is apple?

200

The word that means "bitter herbs"

What is maror (or chazeret)?

300

The letter that looks like a sukkah

What is chet?

400

The vowel that makes the ee sound

What is .?

500

Write out Lily and Kaira in Hebrew letters

?לילי + קעערה What is

Holidays

100

The holiday that happens every week

What is shabbat?

200

The reason we eat Hamantaschen on Purim

What is Hamen's three pointed hat?

300

The book of Torah telling the story of Passover

What is Exodus?

400

The one Jewish holiday LWHS gives us off

What is Yom Kippur?

500

Name the two objects that we wave on Sukkot

What are the lulav and etrog?

Plagues

100

The last plague

What is death of the first born?

200

What water turned into during the first plague

What is blood?

300

The number of the plague of darkness

What is 9?

400

The fourth plague

What is wild animals?

500

The seventh plague

What is hail?

Food

100

The holiday that challah is round for

What is Rosh Hashanah?

200

The food we cannot eat during Passover

What is bread?

300

The Jewish pastry that sounds like a leafy green

What is rugalach?

400

Name the items on the seder plate (English or hebrew)

What is maror, chazeret- bitter herbs, charoset- dish representing mortar, karpas- vegetable to dip in salt water, z'roa- shank bone, or beitzah- hard-boiled egg?

500

The Yiddish name for matzoh balls

What are knedelach?