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What is GELT?
A gift of money to children
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Who is Antiochus IV?
The Greek king who oppressed the Jews
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What is 44?
Number of Chanukah candles needed for all 8 nights
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What spurred the celebration of Chanukah and gift giving?
Proximity to Christmas
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What is Dedication?
The meaning of the word Chanukah
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What does Gimmel and Nun on the dreidel mean?
Everything and Nothing
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Who are Eleazar, Simon, Jochachan and Jonathan?
The names of 2 of Judah Macabees brothers
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What is Right to Left?
The direction you PLACE candles in a chanukah menorah.
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What is Chabad?
Group responsible for many public menorahs
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What is the 25th of Kislev?
The date Chanukah starts in the Jewish calendar
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Wha is Ocho Kandelikas?
Most famous Ladino Chanukah song
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Who are the Chashmonaim or Hasmonean?
Another name the Macabees were known as.
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What is Left to Right?
The direction you LIGHT candles in a chanukah menorah.
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When was Adam Sandler's Canukah song first performed?
Performed for Chanukah 1994
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When does the game dreidel end?
When one has all the pieces
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What is the Yiddish word for sufganiyot?
Ponchkes
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What happened in 164 BCE?
The year the Macabees recaptured and rededicated the Temple?
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What is 7?
The number of candles on the menorah in the Temple
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Who is Jimmy Carter?
The US President who lit the first National Menorah on the White House Lawn?
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What is the Latke Song, or I Am a Latke?
Famous Chanukah song by Debbie Friedman
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What is the number of sufganiyot (jelly donuts) eaten in Israel during Chanukah?
5 million consumed in Israel
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What is Syria?
The modern day country the Greeks were based in
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What is written in the TALMUD and is NOT in the TORAH? (There is no commandment to light Hannukah lights).
Origin for the "Commandment" to Light Chanukah Candles
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Who is Harry Truman?
The first President to celebrate Chanukah in the White House
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What was the original purpose of the dreidel game?
To teach children to understand charity
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