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100

Something we eat to symbolize a sweet new year.

What is apples and honey?

100

Shofars originate from this farm animal.

What is a ram?

100

What is Rosh Hashanah?

What is the beginning of the Jewish new year?

100

This body of water, located in Israel, is the lowest point on Earth at 430 meters below sea level.

What is the Dead Sea?

100
The main mitzvah of Rosh Hashanah. 

What is to hear the shofar?

200

Shape of challah for Rosh Hashanah.


What is round?

200

Name or imitate one of the three sounds a shofar makes.

What is: Tekiah, Teruah and Sh'varim?

200

Common greeting wishing someone a Happy Rosh Hashanah in Hebrew?

What is Shana Tova Umetukah?

200

This popular mobile navigation app was invented in Israel and later purchased by Google.

What is Waze?

200

Something you CANNOT do on Yom Kippur.

What is eating, drinking, wearing leather shoes, showering, putting on perfume etc.

300

Table centrepiece to symbolize being the 'head' of the new year.

What is a fish head?

300

Blowing the shofar is supposed to remind us to...

What is "wake up" and apologize for all the things we did wrong throughout the year?

300

This fruit, eaten on Rosh Hashanah, is filled with seeds and symbolizes abundance and righteousness.

What is a pomegranate?

300

This coffee company tried to open branches in Israel and failed, despite their massive success practically everywhere else in the world.

What is Starbucks?

300

Colour of clothes traditionally worn on Yom Kippur.

What is white?

400

Two of the seven fruits or vegetables listed in the Torah - also called the Seven Species of Israel.

What is: wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives and dates?

400

During the Jewish month of _, the shofar is blown every day leading up to Rosh Hashanah. 

What is Elul?

400

Definition of the word 'teshuvah'.

What is: repent or return?

400

On this day of the year, the roads in Israel are basically empty the entire day.

What is Yom Kippur?

400

A story read on Yom Kippur about a man who gets swallowed by a fish.

What is the Book of Jonah?

500

One of the foods we do NOT eat on Rosh Hashanah.

What are nuts?

500

According to tradition, the shofar from a ram's horn specifically symbolizes this event in Jewish history, where a ram was sacrificed in place of someone. (Hint: we read this story on Rosh Hashanah)

What is the story of Akeidat Yitzchak (Sacrificing Isaac)?

500

There are _ days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, referred to as the Days of Awe. 

What is 10 days?

500

Every year, this number of notes are left in the Kotel (Western Wall) and are cleaned out before every Passover and Rosh Hashana.

What is one million?

500

Ritual of "throwing away your sins" that involves throwing bread into water, traditionally done on the second day of Rosh Hashanah.

What is Tashlich?