When/How many
The amount of days it took to make new oil to light the Menorah
What is 8 days?
The Jewish army that revolted against Antiochus
Who are the Macabees?
Two miracles that occurred in the story of Chanukah
What are the outnumbered Maccabees defeated the Greek army, oil in the destroyed Temple, and the oil lasted for 8 days when it was only enough for one day?
The type of oil discovered in the Temple
What is pure olive oil?
The order we set up the chanukiah and the order we light the Chanukah candles
What is we set the candles up going right to left and light the newest candle first, going left to right?
NOT including the shamash, the amount of candles we light during Hanukkah
What is 36 candles?
The harsh and cruel king who ruled Syria during the story of Chanukah
Who is Antiochus?
The type of military tactics used by the Maccabees able to defeat the Greek-Syrian army
What is Guerilla warfare?
What we light today to celebrate the holiday Hanukkah
What is a Chanukiah?
The reason we are supposed to light the chanukiah in front of the window
What is the mitzvah of publicizing the miracle?
The amount of times the word “light” in all of its forms appears in the Torah
What is 36 times?
The military leader of the Maccabees
Who is Judah?
The meaning behind the name Maccabee
What is their battle cry (it is a word composed of the initial letters of the four Hebrew words Mi Kamocha Ba’eilim Hashem, "Who is like You, O G‑d")
What is the Hebrew word makevet - hammer, which was Judah’s nickname?
The oil was used to light ____ in the Temple
What is the menorah?
The difference between an Israeli dreidel and an American dreidel
What is the shin for sham (there) on an American dreidel and a pei for po meaning here, because the miracle happened in Israel on the Israeli dreidel?
The Hebrew date that the Maccabees rededicated the Temple in Jerusalem
What is the 25th of Kislev?
The empire that was part of the land of Israel during the story of Chanukah
What is the Syrian-Greek Empire?
Three things that Jews were forbidden to do under Antiochus’s rule
What are Jewish worship, Sabbath rest, circumcision and the dietary laws?
What we call the candle that we use to light the rest of the Chanukah candles
The 25th word in the Torah
What is Or (meaning light)?
The approximate year when the story of Hanukkah took place
170-130 BCE (2nd century BCE)
People who accepted idol worship and the Syrian way of life
What are Jewish Hellenists?
An act of rebellion done by the Jews against Antiochus
What is the Jews refusal to break the laws of kashrut, to continue studying Torah, and performing circumcision?
What is the destruction of Greek altars?
The difference between a menorah and a chanukiah
What is the Menorah has seven branches, a chanukiah has 9?
The letters on the dreidel and their representation
What is Nun - Nes, Gimel - Gadol, Hay - Haya, Shin - Sham, a great miracle happened there?