Hard Rosh Hashanah Quiz


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1. Which foods are customary to eat on Rosh Hashanah?

Pomegranate, carrot, date, head of a fish
Pomegranate, carrot, olive, radish
Challah made with honey, pomegranate, date, head of a fish
Apples, honey, grapes, head of a fish

2. What are the other three names of Rosh Hashanah?

Yom haDin, Yom haZikaron, Yom T’ruah
Yom haDin, Yom haShofar, Yom T’ruah
Yom haKapparah, Yom haZikaron, Yom T’ruah
Yom haDin, Yom Rishon, Yom T’ruah

3. How does Leviticus 23 refer to the holiday of Rosh Hashanah?

As the beginning of the year
As being in the first month
As a day of rest
As a day to hear the sound of the horn

4. Depictions of God as sitting upon a throne with books containing the deeds of all humanity displayed before Him for review are found where?

Tanakh
Midrash
Kabbalah
Talmud

5. Which food is customary not to eat on Rosh Hashanah because the Hebrew letters of the word have the same numerical value as the Hebrew word for “sin”?

Olive (zayith)
Fig (teenah)
Nut (egoz)
Date (tamar)

6. In what book of the Tanakh is the term “Rosh Hashanah” first used?

Exodus
Leviticus
Ezekiel
Proverbs

7. Some of the symbolic foods eaten at Rosh Hashanah are dates, black-eyed beans, leek, spinach, and gourd, all of which are mentioned where?

Medieval rabbinic literature
Kabbalah
Midrash
Talmud

8. Which is the fast day that occurs immediately after Rosh Hashanah?

Ta’anit Bechorim
Tzom Gedaliah
Tzom Tammuz
Yom Kippur

9. Over which fruit do we recite the phrase: “May it be your will ... that our merits be increased like [the seeds] of the ...”?

apple
orange
pomegranate
date

10. Over which fruit do we recite: “May it be your will ... that our foes be consumed”?

apple
fig
pomegranate
date

11. It is customary on Rosh Hashanah to eat a type of green bean whose Hebrew name means “to increase.” One recites “may our merits increase” while eating it. What is this vegetable?

Rubiyah
Gezer
Oleh
Tamar

12. According to the Mishnah, Rosh Hashanah is one of four days of judgment. What are the other three?

Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Pesach
Sukkot, Simchat Torah, Chanukah
Sukkot, Pesach, Shavuot
Yom Kippur, Shavuot, Tisha b’Av

13. We all know the holidays can be either “early” or “late.” Due to the way the Hebrew and Gregorian calendars interact, what’s the earliest Rosh Hashanah can ever be?

August 22
August 27
September 1
September 5

14. The story of the binding of Isaac is read from the Torah on Rosh Hashanah. What Muslim religious festival commemorates that same event?

Eid ul-Fitr
Ramadan
Eid al-Adha
Mawlid

15. The use of apples and honey was a minhag of which group, though it is now almost universally accepted?

Ninth-century Karaites
Eleventh-century Sephardim
Fifteenth-century Ashkenazim
Sixteenth-century Yemenite Jews