Test 1

Question 1

Alef-Bet

Answer 1

The Hebrew alphabet

Question 2

Kashrut (kosher)

Answer 2

A system of dietary laws that are biblically based

Question 3

Adon Olam

Answer 3

“Lord of The World”

Question 4

Oseh Shalom

Answer 4

A special prayer which asks for peace

Question 5

Haftarah

Answer 5

The reading of the profits chanted at Shabbat

Question 6

Cantillation

Answer 6

The practice of singing the bible

Question 7

TANACH

Answer 7

The complete Hebrew Bible

Question 8

Torah

Answer 8

The Five Books of Moses in scroll form

Question 9

Nevi’im

Answer 9

The Biblical prophets

Question 10

K’tuvim

Answer 10

The writings of the bible

Question 11

Psalm 150

Answer 11

Mentions praising God with musical instruments

Question 12

Liturgy

Answer 12

The prayer recitations that form part of the observance of Judaism

Question 13

Trope

Answer 13

Symbols that indicate melodic formulas

Question 14

Aramaic

Answer 14

Ancient language spoken by the first Jews

Question 15

Hebrew

Answer 15

Language of the Bible

Question 16

Yiddish

Answer 16

German and Hebrew

Question 17

Ladino

Answer 17

Spanish and Hebrew

Question 18

Ashkenazic

Answer 18

Jews that speak Yiddish

Question 19

Sephardic

Answer 19

Jews that speak Ladino

Question 20

Diaspora

Answer 20

Exile of Jews from their Holy Land

Question 21

Rabbi

Answer 21

Spiritual leader

Question 22

Cantor/Chazzan

Answer 22

Musical leader

Question 23

Minyan

Answer 23

A quorum on 10 Jews

Question 24

Synagogue

Answer 24

Jewish house of worship

Question 25

Temple

Answer 25

Ancient holy structure

Question 26

Shul

Answer 26

School

Question 27

Chanukah

Answer 27

8 day celebration commemorating victory of the maccabees

Question 28

Rosh Hashana

Answer 28

Jewish new year

Question 29

Yom Kippur

Answer 29

Day of atonement

Question 30

Sabbath/Shabbat

Answer 30

Weekly holiday (Saturday)

Question 31

Passover/Pesach

Answer 31

Commemorating the exodus from Egypt

Question 32

Simchat Torah

Answer 32

Celebrate annual reading of the Torah

Question 33

Bar/Bat Mitzvah

Answer 33

Rite of passage for Jewish boys/girls

Question 34

Shofar

Answer 34

Musical instrument used in biblical times/today

Question 35

Polyphonic

Answer 35

Multiple melodies

Question 36

Monophonic

Answer 36

One melody

Question 37

Harmony

Answer 37

Filling in notes to make chords

Question 38

Melody

Answer 38

Single precession of notes

Question 39

Scale/mode

Answer 39

String of adjacent notes

Question 40

Ahava Raba

Answer 40

Jewish scale (harmonic minor scale)

Question 41

Bar'chu

Answer 41

First prayer in a service that requires a minyan

Question 42

Sh'ma

Answer 42

Here O'Isreal

Question 43

Siddur

Answer 43

Hebrew prayer book

Question 44

Chazzanut

Answer 44

Cantorial singing

Question 45

High Holidays

Answer 45

Beginning of the year (rash hashana + yom kippur)

Question 46

Khupa

Answer 46

Canopy you stand under when you get married

Question 47

Yossele Rosenblatt

Answer 47

Greatest cantor of all time

Question 48

Jackie Mendelssohn

Answer 48

Contemporary cantor

Question 49

Salomone Rossi

Answer 49

Wrote contemporary Jewish music

Question 50

Obadiah the Proselyte

Answer 50

First guy to write Jewish music

Question 51

Duke Vincenzo of Mantua

Answer 51

Rossi's patron (paid Rossi's salary)

Question 52

Choral

Answer 52

Multiple parts

Question 53

Chant

Answer 53

One part (one melody)

Question 54

Purim

Answer 54

Telling of the book of Esther

Question 55

Ocho Kandelikas

Answer 55

Chanukah

Question 56

Kol Nidrei

Answer 56

Yom Kippur

Question 57

Oy Chanukah

Answer 57

Chanukah

Question 58

Avinu Malkeynu

Answer 58

Yom Kippur

Question 59

Cha Purim

Answer 59

Purim

Question 60

Dayenu

Answer 60

Passover

Question 61

Hashkediya

Answer 61

Tu Bish'vat

Question 62

Sukkot

Answer 62

Harvest festival

Question 63

Tu Bish'vat

Answer 63

Holiday of trees

Question 64

Kristallnacht

Answer 64

Night of Broken glass

Question 65

Yom HaShoah

Answer 65

Holocaust Remembrance Day

Question 66

Yom HaAtzma-ut

Answer 66

Israeli Independence Day

Question 67

Abayudaya

Answer 67

Jewish tribe in Uganda

Question 68

Antiphonal

Answer 68

2 choirs (echo)

Question 69

Badchen

Answer 69

Entertains at Jewish weddings

Question 70

Farbrengen

Answer 70

Speech given by Lubavitcher Rebbe

Question 71

Freylech

Answer 71

Type of klezmer dance

Question 72

Tsimbl

Answer 72

Dulcimer

Question 73

Nigun

Answer 73

Wordless melody

Question 74

Talmund

Answer 74

Jewish law

Question 75

Hannah Senesh

Answer 75

Resistance fighter in the Holocaust

Question 76

Itzhak Perlman

Answer 76

Famous violinist

Question 77

Lubavitcher Rebbe

Answer 77

Rabbi Schneerson

Question 78

Matthieu le Juif

Answer 78

Obscure French poet

Question 79

Ofra Haza

Answer 79

Israeli singer

Question 80

Shlomo Carlebach

Answer 80

Greatest singing rabbi

Question 81

Sholom Secunda

Answer 81

Composed Bai Mir Bisdusheyn

Question 82

Theodore Bikel

Answer 82

Folk singer

Question 83

A survivor from Warsaw

Answer 83

12 tone piece

Question 84

Alma Rose

Answer 84

Conductor of Auschwitz orchestra

Question 85

Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

Answer 85

German cellist

Question 86

Arnold Schoenberg

Answer 86

12 Tone composer

Question 87

Brundibar

Answer 87

Children's opera

Question 88

Different Trains

Answer 88

By Steve Reich

Question 89

Dremlen Feygel

Answer 89

Sad child's poem

Question 90

Hans Krasa

Answer 90

Wrote Brundibar

Question 91

Osvaldo Golijov

Answer 91

Wrote piece for Holocaust movie (in woods)

Question 92

Oyfn Pripitchik

Answer 92

"On the Hearth"

Question 93

Tekyah

Answer 93

Piece that Osvoldo wrote

Question 94

Theresienstadt (Terezin)

Answer 94

Ghetto facade

Question 95

Emperor from Atlantis

Answer 95

Written by Viktor Ulman

Question 96

Zog nit Keynmol

Answer 96

Partisan's Anthem

Question 97

"Bach in Auschwitz"

Answer 97

About women's orchestra

Question 98

"Holocaust: A musical Memorial"

Answer 98

Musical memorial