On Purim, Jews eat a traditional cookie, the hamentashen, which has this shape.
What is a triangle?
100
This is a Hebrew expression that literally translates as "to life".
What is L'Chayim?
100
Originally named for this settlement in Venice, Italy, these were small, walled communities in which Jews could reside (especially during the Holocaust).
What are ghettos?
100
This is an eight-day holiday that falls in March or April.
What is Passover/Pesach?
200
This state has the greatest number of Hebrew speakers in the United States.
What is New York?
200
This term refers to Jews of Central or Eastern European descent.
What are Ashkenazi Jews?
200
This is a small, typically rural, community found in parts of Israel.
What is a kibbutz?
200
This act, taking place in the late 1400s and proceeding for several centuries, forced all Jews and Muslims to either convert to Catholicism, the country's dominant religion, or leave the country.
What is the Spanish Inquisition?
200
This Jewish holiday is the festival of the trees.
What is Tu B'Shevat (Tu Bishvat)?
300
Today, this is the closest-related language to Hebrew that is NOT a blend of Hebrew and another language (i.e., not Yiddish, Ladino/Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Portuguese, etc.)
What is Arabic?
300
This is a Canadian-born rapper, of partial African-American and Canadian-Jewish descent.
Who is Drake?
300
This cloth is used as a canopy over the bride, groom, and rabbi during a Jewish wedding ceremony.
What is a chuppah?
300
This is a more recent movement of Jews back to the State of Israel.
What is Zionism?
300
This holiday is often described as the Jewish Halloween, as many choose to wear costumes on this day.
What is Purim?
400
"Mitzrayim" is the Hebrew name for this country (it is a site of many biblical events).
What is Egypt?
400
Sephardic Jews trace their heritage most directly to this area of the world.
What are Spain and Portugal (Iberian Peninsula)?
400
This object dictates the Jewish calendar.
What is the Moon?
400
This operation, led by Israel with assistance from Sudan and the United States, was an evacuation of Ethiopian Jews during a 1984 famine, to Israel.
What is Operation Moses?
400
This holiday occurs 49 days after Passover, and commemorates the giving of the Torah.
What is Shavuot?
500
This language, now extinct, was so similar to Hebrew that it was called the "sister language" of Hebrew. (Hint: Most of the Mourner's Kaddish is in this language)
What is Aramaic?
500
The "U" on packages for kosher foods in the United States stands for this.
What is the Union of Orthodox Congregations (of America)?
500
The Bene Israel are a Jewish population living in this Eastern country.
What is India?
500
This group of people destroyed the Second Jewish Temple in 70 CE.
Who are the Romans?
500
This day commemorates several disasters in Jewish history that all occurred on or around this day.