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For the past few years the NJJN has celebrated Purim with a news quiz. For each of the questions below, there is a correct answer based on an actual news story. Enjoy, and hag sameach!

1. In December, a New Jersey couple made news because their local supermarket wouldn’t…
a/ inscribe a birthday cake with the name
of their son, Adolf Hitler Campbell.
b/ accept Confederate currency.
c/ stock the shelves with their favorite
German snack food, “Eva Braunies.”

2. A study suggested Israeli children suffer fewer peanut allergies
because…
a/ the smog in Tel Aviv masks most allergy symptoms.
b/ kids are raised eating Bamba, a peanut-flavored snack food.
c/ parents declared attempts to ban peanut butter in schools as “a namby-pamby American import.”

3. Seven young artists from Berlin made news at an Israeli museum by…
a/ living there for three weeks with lice in their hair.
b/ dressing as the Seven Dwarves and digging a coal mine in
the basement.
c/ turning all the abstract paintings upside down – which wasn’t discovered
for three weeks.

4. How did Syrian President Bashar Assad disrespect Israeli Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert during an EU summit in Paris?
a/ He kept referring to him as “Elmer.”
b/ He studiously avoided eye contact with the Israeli leader.
c/ He offered his outstretched hand, then quickly ran it through his hair before Olmert could grasp it.

5. What political gaffe did congressional candidate Kevin Powell
make before a group of Satmar hasidim in Williamsburg, Brooklyn?
a/ He promised to “bring home the bacon.”
b/ He hugged the rebbe’s wife.
c/ He tasted a plate of cholent and immediately spit it into his handkerchief.

6. What was the dying request, honored by local Jewish authorities, of a Soviet immigrant living in Karlsruhe, Germany?
a/ He asked the local Lubavitcher rabbi to “please get off my
oxygen hose.”
b/ He asked to be buried with a bottle of vodka.
c/ He asked that his tombstone be carved in the shape of a
potato.

7. An Israeli woman from Ra’anana was quoted as saying, “What is
this? Are we in Iran?” To what was she referring?
a/ The El-Al jet she was on, which was forced to make an emergency landing
in Tehran.
b/ A two-story campaign poster of Benjamin Netanyahu hanging from the
building across the street.
c/ The new dress code at the local religious high school requiring boys to
wear “long, respectable trousers” and “a real kipa.”

8. After Barack Obama visited Israel in August, Israel’s attorney general was asked to investigate…
a/ the theft of the prayer Obama had stuffed into a crack in the Western
Wall.
b/ the botched pruning of a pine sapling Obama planted in a JNF forest.
c/ the $2,715 unpaid charge Obama racked up on his rented Israphone.

9.Why did a Lebanese trade union plan to sue Israel?
a/ To win back wages for laborers who missed work days during the 2006
Israeli war with Hizbullah.
b/ To win intellectual property rights to the phrase “cedars of Lebanon,” which appears in the Book of Judges, among other texts.
c/ To prevent Israel from marketing falafel and hummus as “Israeli”
foods.

Answers:
1: A; 2: B; 3: A; 4: B; 5: A; 6: B; 7: C; 8: A; 9: C

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