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Jesus' mother was Mary, what was the name of Moses' mother?
: Sarah
* Yocheved
: Miriam
# We sincerely hope you got this right.
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Which of the following famous individuals is an Orthodox Jew?
: Alvin Radkovsky, designer of the nuclear submarine reactor
: Stephen Hill, former star of Mission Impossible
: Herman Wouk, author of The Caine Mutiny and The Winds of
War
: None of the above
* All of the above
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When is Education Day in the U.S.A.?
* Lubavitcher Rebbe's birthday
: Martin Luther King's birthday
: Birthday of Walt Whitman
: The Ninth of Av
# A tribute to the Rebbe's educational activities by
President Reagan.
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What do Haagen Daz ice cream, Pringles and Entenmmann's cakes
have in common?
: They are all made in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
: They are all made from reconstituted ingredients.
* They are all kosher (as of this date).
# Look for Kashrut certification on the package!
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Who eats the most coconuts?
: Russians
* Hawaiians
: Jews
# This was an irrelevant and absurd question, but we
couldn't resist.
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Who first called the Jewish People "The People of the Book?"
: Daniel Webster
* Mohammed
: Mark Twain
# Koran, Sura 4:122
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Who originated the expression "You can't take it with you"?
: James Stewart
* King Solomon
: Lionel Barrymore
# Ecclesiastes 5:14. Barrymore and Stewart
appeared in a movie bearing this phrase as its title.
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Which two universities have Hebrew words in their seals?
* Columbia and Yale
: Oxford and Cambridge
: Texas A & M and Cal Tech
# The Columbia seal contains the name of G-d in Hebrew and
the words "Uri El", G-d is my light. Yale has "Urim Vetumim",
the Hebrew term for the breastplate of the High Priest.
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Where does the verse
"They will beat their swords into plowshares" appear?
: New York Stock Exchange
* United Nations
: The Knesset
# The statement is a prophecy about Messianic times in Isaiah
2:4.
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What is a shtreimel?
: a furry doughnut
* a furry hat
: a furry rodent
# It is worn by Chassidim and many Jerusalemites on
Sabbaths, Festivals and other special occasions.
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"Woe to the land that is governed by a child." (Richard III
Act 2). What is the origin of this Shakespearean
expression?
: Common English expression
* The Bible
: Homer
# Ecclesiastes 10:16
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From what is gelatin normally made?
: potato starch
: processed bark
* ground animal bones
# Kosher gelatin is made from agar-agar, a seaweed
derivative.
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Where does the word "Yehudi", meaning "Jewish", first appear
in the Bible?
* Jeremiah
: Exodus
: Joshua
: Scroll of Esther
# Jeremiah 34:9
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Who called the Jews "pioneers of liberty, pioneers of
civilization and the emblem of eternity"?
: F.Nietzsche
* Leo Tolstoy
: Albert Einstein
: Alfred E. Neuman
# From an essay entitled "What is a Jew?".
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Which name does not belong with the others?
: Isaiah
: Jeremiah
* Solomon
: Ezekiel
# Solomon was a king and a prophet, the others were prophets
but not kings.
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Which place is "out of place"?
* Ramses
: Meggido
: Ashkelon
: Hebron
# Ramses is in Egypt, the others are in Israel.
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Which of these leaders tried to reestablish the Sanhedrin?
: David Ben-Gurion
* Napoleon Bonaparte
: Genghis Khan
: Darth Vader
# Napoleon tried to establish a "Sanhedrin" that would
command the respect of the Jewish people and would endorse
assimilation; he was not successful.
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How old was Isaac at the time of his "Binding"?
: 2
* 37
: 10
# Commentary of Rashi to Genesis 25:20
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What happens to a child when he or she becomes
Bar/Bat Mitzva?
: Gains financial independence
: Gains freedom from Hebrew School
: Tours Disney World
* Becomes obligated in Commandments
# When a girl turns 12 or a boy turns 13 they become
obligated to keep the commandments. Other things may also
happen, like a tour of Disney World, but these are not
intrinsic to the idea of Bar/Bat Mitzva.
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Who destroyed the First Temple?
: Hawaiian commandos
: Jabba the Hutt
* The Babylonians
: The Romans
: The Mongols
# In the 4th century B.C.E. the Babylonian Empire under the
rule of Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the Temple in Jerusalem and
exiled the Jews to Babylon.
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What is the approximate weight of the largest stone in the
Western (Wailing) Wall?
: 2.5 tons
: 10 tons
: 50 tons
* 200 tons
# The stone is in the South-West part of the Wall and
measures almost 14m (45ft) in length.
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How often does a Jewish leap-year occur?
:Once in five years
*Seven times in 19 years
:Seven times in 49 years
:Every four years
# An additional month is added to a leap year, in order to
compensate for the difference between the lunar and solar years.
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Which of these pairs were contemporaries?
:Jeremiah and Socrates
:Isaiah and Homer
:Ezekiel and Plato
:Ezra and Aristotle
*All of the above
:None of the above
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In what manner did Noah bring the Kosher animals into the Ark?
:Two by two
:Two by four
:Four by four
*Seven by seven
#The non-Kosher animals came two by two. Genesis 6:19, 7:2.
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What shape were the tablets of the Ten Commandments?
*Squares
:Rectangles with rounded tops
:Parallelograms
:Decahedrons
#Talmud, Baba Batra 14a. Michaelangelo's depiction of the Tablets
as rectangles with rounded tops follows the synagogues' custom, based on
the verse in Proverbs 3:3, "Write them (the words of Torah) upon the
tablets of your heart".
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Which non-Kosher animal produces Kosher food?
:Chewbaccas
:Sea-slugs
*Bees
:Koalas
#By the way, koalas are marsupials and are not bears.
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Approximately how old are the oldest known pair of Tefillin
(phylacteries)?
:600 years
*1900 years
:3200 years
#They were found on Masada, which fell in 73 C.E., and are on
display in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.