Not-So-Easy Chanukah Quiz

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1. The place Jewish tradition maintains is the best to light and display the Chanukiah is:

outside your front door
in your front window
on your living room table
on your rooftop

2. Who is allowed to say a blessing on the lights of Chanukah?

one who does the lighting himself
one who does not light, but has someone else light on his behalf
one who merely sees the Chanukah lights
all of the above

3. Who was the author of the First Book of Maccabees?

Flavius Josephus
an anonymous Jew
an anonymous Greek
it's impossible to know

4. The names of the Maccabee sons were

Yehuda, Daniel, Ephraim, Simeon, Yair
Yehuda, Asher, Gad, Reuven, Elazar
Yehuda, Binyamin, Elazar, Yair, Yonatan
Yehuda, Shimon, Yochanan, Elazar, Yonatan

5. What is the name of the courageous Jewish woman who defied the Greeks and killed one of their generals?

Yehudit
Devorah
Miriam
Hannah

6. In which battle did the Maccabee army defeat the Syrian commander Seron?

Beit Horon
Beit Zur
Emmaus
Ma'aleh Levona

7. Which of the following is another name for the Maccabees?

Chashmonaim
Yehudim
Yevanim
Misyavnim

8. What prayer is said during the lighting of the Chanukah menorah?

Maoz Tzur
Shoshanat Yaakov
Yevanim Yevanim
Haneirot Hallalu

9. One of the Maccabee brothers was killed in battle in this unusual fashion.

run over by a chariot
trampled by an elephant
hit by a slinged stone
attacked by a wild boar

10. Who was the father of the Maccabee brothers?

Matanya
Matityahu
Menachem
Maaseiya

11. Chanukah can start on any day of the week except this day:

Sunday
Tuesday
Thursday
Shabbat

12. In the time of Alexander the Great, Judea was considered part of what country and a province of what empire?

Turkey, Greek Empire
Syria, Greek Empire
Syria, Persian Empire
Egypt, Egyptian Empire

13. Who was worshiped in the Beit haMikdash under the reign of Antiochus IV?

Antiochus Epiphanes
Adonai, the God of the Jews
Olympian Zeus
Olympian Athena

14. What two things served as tests of political loyalty to the hellenistic Syrians?

Participating in the gymnasium and not keeping kosher
Sacrificing to idols and participating in pagan rites
Paying taxes to the governor and not paying tithes to the Temple
Serving in the Greek militia and sacrificing to idols

15. The Syrian-Greeks prohibited the practice of which mitzvot?

brit milah
Shabbat
Rosh Chodesh
All of the above