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100
This letter makes an "l" sound and looks like a lightning bolt.
What is lamed? ל
100
אֶ
What is "eh"?
100
Read the Hebrew and tell me which prayer this is:
שֶׁמָ
Hint: It's one of the first prayers you learn as a kid, and you cover your eyes to recite it.
What is the Shema?
Bonus 100 points for whoever's willing to do it for us.
100
This Supreme Court Justice was a feminist icon and trailblazer who fought against gendered laws.
Who was Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
100
FINISH THE QUOTE!
In Disney's 1994 movie "The Lion King," Mufasa talks to Simba about his royal inheritance, telling him that "Everything.."
What is "...the light touches is yours"?
200
This letter makes the "b" sound and works as a real estate agent.
What is bet? בּ
200
צִ
What is "tzee"?
200
Read the Hebrew and tell me which prayer this is:
אָדוֹן אֹלַם
Hint: This prayer is sung at the end of Shabbat Services and can be sung to any melody written in a 2/4 time signature.
What is Adon Olam?
200
Name one Jewish food (can be actually or stereotypically Jewish).
What is bagels, Asian food, hamentashen, latkes, gefilte fish, etc?
200
The age people begin to have memories.
What is two-and-a-half to three?
300
This letter makes the sound "s" and looks like a sailboat.
What is samech?
300
גָשֻׁ
What is "gashoo"?
300
Read the Hebrew and tell me what the prayer is:
מאִ כָמוֹחָה
Hint: This is the song Miriam sung after the Israelites made it through the Red Sea and escaped Egyptian slavery.
What is Mi Chamocha?
300
This Jewish teenager wrote several years worth of a word famous diary while in hiding in Amsterdam before perishing in the Holocaust.
Who was Anne Frank?
300
What is the pansexual flag?
400
This letter makes the "g" sound and used gillyweed to grow a tail.
What is gimmel? ג
400
תֵפּוֹ
What is "taypoh"?
400
Read this word and tell me what it means (half points if you don't know what it means):
יָד
What is yad/hand?
400
This holiday is Holocaust Remembrance Day, and is observed with a seder.
Yom Hashoah
400
The world's population.
What is 7.9 billion?
500
This letter: ף
What is final fey?
500
מִּצבוֹת
What is "mitzvot"?
Bonus 100 points for whoever can tell me what this means in English, and why it's important to do these things.
500
Read this word and tell me what it means:
שֶׁקֶל
What is shekel/Israeli money?
500
This entrepreneur is the guy behind modern blue jeans, starting a clothing company is his name.
Who was Levi Strauss?
500
The youngest person ever to receive a Nobel peace prize.
Who is Malala Yousafzai?