Chanukah Riddles

These are a little silly, but I hope they bring you some joy and “light”ness on this holiday. If you think of some of your own, please let me know.

1. Why should one do riddles on Chanukah?   

2. What instrument do people play at a Chanukah party?  

3. What do people wear to a Chanukah party?  

4. What scent do you put on before going to a Chanukah party?  

5. What do you say to someone who wins a game of dreidl?  

6. In what Chanukah prayer do we thank God for our siblings’ daughters?  

7. What do you call a feminist Chanukiyah?  

8. What emotion do Chanukah and Yom Kippur have in common?

9. What do Avraham and Judith have in common?   

10. What type of beer did the Maccabees like?  

11. What is the Maccabbees’ favorite treif food? 

12. What is the Maccabees’ preferred type of computer?   

13. What city in NJ are the Maccabees really from?  

14. What is the name of the browser the Maccabees used?  

15. What do you call a Chanukah toy made by a child in pigtails?

16. How was making Chanukah an 8 day holiday a way of defying the villain of the Chanukah story (using a little Spanish)?   

17. What do you call an empty nest on Chanukah? 

18, The holiday of Chanukah is also called Chag Ha’urim, the holiday of light.  However the Hebrew word אורה, orah, light, does not appear in any Chanukah texts, but in the texts for two other holidays.  What are they?    

19. How do we know the Maccabees found a garbage can in the Temple?  

20. What’s the most fitting personal pronoun for Chanukah?

Answers:

1. To fulfill one’s obligation to consume lots of laughkas.
2. The charmonica
3. Pajamacas
4. Perfum-ei Nisa
5. You did greatel!
6. Al HaNiece-im
7. A womenorah
8. Gelt
9. They both battled a Holy Furnace. (Holifernes was the name of the general Judith killed, and Avraham was thrown into a furnace.)
10. Bud Light
11. A Big Mac
12. A Mac
13. Mackensack
14. Matis Yahoo
15.  A braidl dreidl
16. Because he was Anti – Ochos.   He was anti 8’s. (ocho= 8 in Spanish)
17.  פורקן,  poor kan (Hebrew for nest)
18. Purim and Shabbat (havdalah) – layehudim hayta orah vesimchah . . .  
19. The gemara says they found a pach. 
20. Mai (my) Chanukah (name of a gemara about Chanukah, Shabbat 21b)

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