Telling Stories Out of School
Vegetation that ordered a shepherd to go back home
What is the burning bush?
Represents the mortar used by Israelite slaves to build with
What is charoset?
The plague that made the Nile blush. (100 bonus points if given in Hebrew.)
What is blood?
("Dam" in Hebrew)
Killed by Moses for beating an Israelite slave, which led Moses to flee Egypt for Midian after Pharaoh learned of the murder
Who is the Egyptian taskmaster/overseer?
Moshe's adopted mother
(Double points for her first name)
Who was Pharaoh's daughter?
(Batya)
Big sister, brother protector, prophetess, leader of song and dance among the Hebrew women after the crossing of the Red Sea. We hope she'll drink the 6th cup.
Who is Miriam?
Parsley or celery, representing springtime; name it in Hebrew
What is karpas?
Prodigious eaters that some consider a delicacy
(100 bonus points for Hebrew)
What are locusts?
(Hebrew: Arbeh)
Hebrew patriarch, bullying victim, prisoner, dream interpreter, and Egyptian administrator who brought the Israelites to Egypt in the first place
Who is Joseph?
The English meaning of the word "seder"
What is "order"?
It would have sufficed. Really, you shouldn't have gone to all that extra trouble.
What is Dayenu?
We invite him every year. Dude never shows.
(100 points bonus for his Hebrew name.)
Who is Elijah?
(Hebrew: Eliyahu)
A good reason to be vegan
(100 bonus points for Hebrew)
What is cattle disease?
(Hebrew: Dever)
Those who died in the tenth plague
Who were the firstborn males in Egypt?
Bonus points for including livestock as well as people
In English, it means "stuffed."
What is "gefilte"?
The book of the Torah that tells the Passover story.
(Double points if you give the name in Hebrew)
What is Exodus?
(Hebrew: Sh'mot, "Names")
With an outstretched arm, I took you out of Egypt. Then I left the arm on your seder plate.
Also symbolizes the lamb sacrificed as the special Passover offering in ancient times.
(100 bonus points for the Hebrew name)
What is the shank bone?
(Hebrew: Zeroa, "arm" or "shoulder"; "strength" by extension)
Windshield breakers
(100 bonus points for Hebrew)
What is hail?
(Hebrew: Barad)
Moses's mother, who hid him for 3 month, placed him in a basket in the Nile to save him from the royal decree, then served as his wet nurse in Pharaoh's palace
Who is Yocheved?
A company founded in 1888 in Cincinnati, OH, by a rabbi and matzah maven who invented and mass-produced unleavened bread in the shape of a square.
What is Manischewitz?
The meaning of Pharaoh's dream about seven fat cows eaten by seven thin cows, and seven healthy ears of grain devoured by seven thin, blighted ears, as interpreted by Joseph
What is 7 years of abundance followed by 7 years of famine?
18 minutes
What is the time limit for baking matzah from start to finish (from adding the water to the flour to removing it from the oven)?
This plague was everywhere you stepped, looked, or touched. It was so gross it made you want to croak.
(100 point bonus for Hebrew)
What are frogs?
(Hebrew: Tzefardeia)
Israelite midwives who foiled pharaoh's plan to kill the Israelite male babies by claiming that their mothers were like beasts and gave birth too quickly for the babies to be snatched away and killed
Who are Shifrah and Puah?
A punishment from Pharoah that made the Israelite slaves' workload even harder
What is making bricks without straw?
(Straw had been provided by the Egyptians to be used as a binding agent for the bricks. Pharaoh decreed that the Israelites had to forage for their own straw and still make the same daily quota of bricks.)