MEIRAV’S QUESTIONS
1 What’s the name of the Hebrew month that’s just started?
2a According to the Talmud, what is it that increases when Adar comes in?
2b What is the word for that in Hebrew?
3 What traditional Jewish wedding song, based on a prophecy from Jeremiah, mentions the word “simcha”?
4 The Yiddish word “yontev/yontiff” comes from the Hebrew “yom tov” – literally a good day. Which book in the Tanach mentions an instruction to celebrate a “yom tov” on the 14th of Adar, with feasting and drinking and sending gifts of food?
5. a. What Jewish holiday has the word “simcha” in its name?
b. What does that holiday’s name mean?
GILLIAN’S QUESTIONS
1. In Emily Brontes classic novel wuthering heights who does Catherine Earnshaw marry?
2. In Netball, which position is allowed in all thirds of he court but cannot enter either shooting circe?
3. What job did Charles Dickens have at the age of 12?
4. What is a bothy?
5. What was the first single released by Bon Jovi?
IRENE’S QUESTIONS
What they might have said.
For example: “What, the WHOLE ceiling?”
Answer: Michaelangelo
1) “Strange, it's engaged
2). “It's for Victory, not what you think”.
3). “Ouch! Knew I should have worn goggles”.
4). “Just use the last wedding cake”.
5).. “Oh no! But the salt is useful for my fried eggs”.
ROBERTA’S QUESTIONS
1 A man dressed all in black is walking down a country lane. Suddenly a large black car with no lights comes round the corner and screeches to a halt. How did the car’s driver know the walker was there?
2 Can you name three consecutive days without mentioning Wednesday, Friday or Sunday?
3 Can you name what happens once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in a thousand years ?
4 What is the maximum number of times a single page of a newspaper can be folded in half?
5 “I’m so fragile, that if you say my name you’ll break me
Barbra’s questions
1 What has a gravitational pull so strong thateven light cannot escape it
2 What are the two mst widely spoken languages in the world
3 What city is known as the “City of Love”?
4 What is the name of Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy
5 Where is the world’s largest active volcano situated?
SEE THE ANSWERS BELOW.
ANSWERS:-
MEIRAV'S QUESTIONS
- Adar Aleph 2 a Joy 2b Simcha 3 Kol Sasson ve’Kol Simcha /OD YISHAMA 4 Book of Esther 5 Simchat Torah Rejoicing in the law.
GILLIAN'S QUESTIONS
1 Edgar 2 The Centre 3 He worked in a shoe blacking factory 4 A shelter 5 Runaway
IRENE'S QUESTIONS
1 Alexander Graham Bell 2 Winston Churchill 3 Harold II 4 Henry VIII 5 Lot
ROBERTA'S QUESTIONS
1 It was Daytime? 2 Yesterday, Today Tomorrow 3 The letter M 4 Once 5 Silence
BARBRA'S QUESTIONS
1 Black Hole 2 Chinese and English 3 Paris 4 Macbeth 5 Hawaii