Passover Trivia

1. The festive meal eaten on Passover night is called the:

From Quiz Passover

Answer: Seder

"Seder" means "order" in Hebrew. The meal has 14 ritual parts (including the meal itself), which are followed in a rigid order.

From Quiz Do You Know Pesach?

Answer: The Jewish slaves in Egypt spread lamb's blood over their doors so the angel of death would 'pass over' their homes

During the tenth plague - the slaying of the first born - G-d saved the lives of all the Jewish children by commanding the Israelite slaves to spread lambs' blood on their doors so that the Angel of Death would 'pass over' their homes.

From Quiz Passover

Answer: Four

Those who cannot drink so much wine may drink grape juice instead.

From Quiz Do You Know Pesach?

Answer: The (Pesach) lamb offering, roasted egg, green vegetable, marror (bitter herb), charoset (sweet apple mixture), second bitter herb, matzah

The Pesach represents the offering used to mark the Jews' doorways so that the Angel of Death would pass over them, as well as serving as a throwback to the lamb offering given by every Jew in the days of the Temple in Jerusalem; the roasted egg represents the second offering, the chagigah, that was also brought to the Temple; the green vegetable (or Karpas) symbolizes the rebirth of life in the spring; the marror (bitter herbs) and the second bitter herb both represent the suffering of the Jewish slaves in Egypt; the charoset (sweet apple mixture) stands for the mortar that held the slaves' bricks together, and the matzah is the bread of affliction that the Jewish slaves brought with them in such a hurry that it did not have time to rise.

From Quiz Symbols and the Seder

Answer: A roasted egg

The egg can also be seen as a symbol of the circle of life (because of its shape), or a symbol of death, after the custom of eggs being eaten by Jewish mourners as part of the 'meal of condolence' after the death of a loved one. One interpretation of the egg as mourning symbol states that just as an egg becomes harder the longer it is cooked, so the mourner learns to cope with their grief as the days go by. Sometimes the egg will be peeled and placed in a bowl with the salt water used for dipping the karpas.

From Quiz Passover

Answer: Matzah

Matzah is eaten to commemorate the fact that the Exodus from Egypt occurred quickly, so the people did not have time to allow the dough to rise before baking it.

From Quiz Do You Know Pesach?

Answer: Beet

It's true... and probably smells a lot better than the shank bone as well!

From Quiz Passover

Answer: Easter

Although Passover follows the Hebrew calendar, it usually comes out in April.

From Quiz Symbols and the Seder

Answer: The mortar used by the Hebrew slaves

Charoset is delicious, and there are many, many ways to make it. The recipe I used one year for a friend's Seder contained cooking apples, dates, cinnamon, kosher grape juice, mixed nuts, and honey - it was a mixture of Claudia Roden's recipe from 'The Book of Jewish Food', and a recipe I found on the internet. It comes from the Hebrew 'cheres', or 'clay', hence the mortar resemblance. An Iranian variation, halegh, uses forty ingredients to symbolise the forty years spent wandering in the desert.

From Quiz Passover

Answer: 8 & Eight

In Israel, it is only seven days long. Generally, Orthodox and Conservative Jews in countries other than Israel celebrate an additional day of each holiday. This anomaly is based on an historical quirk relating to the declaration of a new month before the advent of the calendar.

From Quiz Do You Know Pesach?

Answer: The youngest child present

The four questions are designed to increase the interest of the children present in the activities of the Seder and in the history behind it. The selection of the youngest child removes any potential dispute as to who will have the privilege of asking the questions.

From Quiz Passover

Answer: Song of Songs

The song "Turn, Turn, Turn" is based on verses from Ecclesiastes.

From Quiz Passover

Answer: Pesach

"Pesach" means "pass over" in Hebrew.

From Quiz Do You Know Pesach?

Answer: blood, frogs, vermin, beasts, cattle disease, boils, hail, locusts, darkness, slaying of the firstborn

You know, I almost think that studying for mid-terms is worse than cattle disease... but I'm just going with what they teach you in Sunday School. But, as was pointed out by a player, "Midterms are only worse than cattle disease when you don't raise cattle for a living. :)"!

From Quiz Symbols and the Seder

Answer: 13 times for the 10 plagues, and the 3 acronyms with their initial letters

The ten plagues that G-d inflicted upon the Egyptians were: water turning into blood, frogs, lice, flies, a disease which afflicted livestock, boils, burning hail, locusts, darkness, and killing of the first born (both children and animals). Before the arrival of the tenth plague, G-d told Moses to tell the Israelites to make a mark above their doors with lamb's blood, so that G-d would know to spare them. The drops of wine also represent the blood spilled when the Egyptian army drowned in the Red Sea while chasing after the Israelites. By diminishing the amount of wine in our cups, we are also diminishing our celebration, as the Egyptians were G-d's creatures too.

From Quiz Passover

Answer: Family

Each family unit had to "register" to eat the paschal lamb in the Temple. Passover, like most Jewish holidays, is thus celebrated with an emphasis on family even today.

From Quiz Do You Know Pesach?

Answer: Order or procedure

The word for the Passover feast, Seder, refers to the ritual order of the various stages of the celebration.

From Quiz Passover

Answer: ordinary bread

Anything with leavening may not be eaten during Passover. A mystical explanation of this prohibition analogizes leavening to the character trait of haughtiness. Thus, Passover is a reminder that people should avoid behaving in a haughty manner all year round. As for the nuts, it turns out that all nuts may be eaten on Pesach. Ashkenazic Jews have adopted the custom of not eating "kitniot", or legumes, on Pesach, and thus refrain from eating peanuts, which fall into this category. Sephardic Jews historically did not adopt this custom and therefore do eat peanuts, as well as rice, on Pesach.

From Quiz Do You Know Pesach?

Answer: 2

Ceremonial hand washing is performed twice: once after the Kiddush (blessing over the wine) and once right before saying the blessing over the matzah.

From Quiz Symbols and the Seder

Answer: LGBT Jews

Reform and liberal Jews place an orange on the Seder plate to represent the LGBT community. Contrary to popular belief, the orange is not there to represent Jewish women; the quote about a woman belonging on the bimah as much as an orange does on the Seder plate is an urban legend. What actually happened was that Dr Susannah Heschel found a story about a girl who asked a rabbi if there was any room for a lesbian in Judaism, and the rabbi replying that there was as much room for a lesbian in Judaism as there was for a crust of bread on the Seder plate. Heschel was inspired by this story, but could not use bread due to it being chametz, so she chose an orange instead. Her explanation: "I chose an orange because it suggests the fruitfulness for all Jews when lesbians and gay men are contributing and active members of Jewish life."

From Quiz Passover

Answer: Dayenu

The well-known ditty goes "Da-da-yenu, Da-da-yenu...."

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