TEST YOUR JEWISH IQSM

1. In what month and year did Israel declare that it was an independent nation?

a. July 1776 b. May 1948 c. May 1967 d. June 1967 a. Cain and Abel b. Moses and Aaron c. Simeon and Zebulun d. David and Jonathan a. The Congo b. Ethiopia c. Libya d. Uganda a. Herod b. Hadrian c. Onkelos d. Josephus a. Benjamin Disraeli b. Menachem Begin c. Yitzhak Rabin d. Abraham Stern a. Raanana b. Yavneh c. Pumbedisa d. Sura a. England b. France c. Portugal d. Spain a. Sister-in-law b. Mother-in-law c. Cousin d. None

2. Which of these biblical figures are not brothers?

3. Israeli commandos attacked the airport at Entebbe in 1976 to free Jewish hostages in which African country?

4. Which member of the Roman royal family converted to Judaism and translated the Torah into Aramaic, a translation still widely used today?

5. Which Jewish leader had a bounty put on his head, dead or alive, by the British government, and later dined on a kosher meal with the queen of England?

6. Which of these cities was not a major center of Torah learning?

7. Which of these European nations was the first to expel its Jews?

8. Abraham’s wife Sarah had what relationship to Lot’s wife, who turned into a pillar of salt?

9. Which of these authors was not a renowned Jewish author, known for Jewish-themed books?

Singer a. Isaac Bashevis b. Sholem Aleichem c. Ezra Pound d. Philip Roth a. One-half of 1% b. 1% c. 10% d. 25%

10. Although Jews make up only about one-quarter of 1% of the world population, Jews have been awarded approximately what percentage of all Nobel prizes?