The number of nights and days we celebrate Chanukah.
What is eight?
100
These are the things we light every night.
What are candles?
100
This Hebrew word meaning "hammer" became the name of the heroes of the Chanukah story.
What is "Maccabee?"
100
What Judith fed her enemy, Holofernes, before killing him.
What is cheese?
100
The direction in which we PLACE the candles.
What is right-to-left?
200
Chanukah is sometimes called the Festival of these.
What are Lights?
200
A chanukiah has eight candles, plus a ninth called a "Shamash." In English, Shamash means this.
What is "helper?"
200
After the Maccabean revolt, when the Jews were cleaning the Temple, they only found enough oil to last this many nights.
What is one?
200
Judith defended the Jewish people, just like this royal woman from Shushan.
Who was Queen Esther?
200
The direction in which we LIGHT the candles.
What is left-to-right?
300
This is the English translation of the word "Chanukah?"
What is "Rededication?"
300
This is the game played during Chanukah.
What is dreidel?
300
The name of the first Maccabee.
Who is Judah (Yehuda HaMakabi)?
300
It has become customary to read the story of Judith on which day during Chanukah?
What is Shabbat.
300
The blessing for the lighting of the candles.
What is "Barukh ata Adonai Eloheinu, melekh ha'olam, asher kid'shanu b'mitzvotav v'tzivanu l'hadlik ner (shel) Hanukkah?"
400
This is the name of the special menorah used during Chanukah.
What is a chanukiah?
400
This is the Hebrew word for jelly doughnuts.
What is "sufganiot?"
400
In the year 167 BCE, the Greek King Antiochus ruled over Judea, outlawed Judaism, and ordered a statue of Zeus to be built in this important building in Jerusalem.
What is the Second Temple?
400
Holofernes was a general for this army.
What is Babylonian?
400
From the dreidel, "Nes Gadol Haya Sham" means this in English.
What is "A great miracle happened there."
500
This is the Hebrew calendar date on which Chanukah starts.
What is the 25th of Kislev?
500
This is the Yiddish word for "potato pancake."
What is "latke?"
500
This is the book that first mentioned the miracle of the oil.
What is the Talmud?
500
This king of Babylonia sent Holofernes to Judea as an act of revenge.
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
500
Giving gelt during Chanukah started in 1600s Poland. Giving CHOCOLATE gelt didn't begin until the 1920s in this country.