This document provides a series of trivia questions about Israel. It covers topics like Israeli cuisine, historical figures, cities, culture, and current events. The questions test knowledge about Israeli prime ministers, cities, religions, the national anthem, security procedures at Ben Gurion Airport, and characters seen in Israeli advertisements.
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Israeli Trivia at its Most Fun!
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What is ‘Sabich’? What was Israel’s first If you’re using the Which of the In which Israeli city
Prime Minister’s first services of Egged, following Israeli must the fish you
•A nickname for the name? what are you doing? cities is not a mixed order at a restaurant
Armored Corps
A dC •Drinking coffee Arab-Jewish
Arab Jewish city? travel over land on
•An Israeli sandwich •Moshe the way to your
•Speaking on a plate?
with eggplant and egg •Haifa
•Ben mobile phone
•An Israeli entry in the •Jaffa •Akko (Acre)
Eurovision song contest
•David •Riding public
transportation •Lod •Herzliya
•Lebanese pizza with •Zvi
•Wearing clothes •Tiberius •Eilat
hard boiled egg
•Be’er Sheba
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What famous To which of these What Israeli city has Which of the
What is the fifth word
historical figure was Israeli cities can you the largest following religions
in Israel’s National
buried in Jerusalem’s not arrive by (any population? does not have an
Anthem, Hatikva?
old city? kind of) airplane? official or significant
• Jerusalem
• Yerushalayim community in Israel?
•Abraham • Tel Aviv
•Tel Aviv (Jerusalem)
•Leonardo da Vinci • Both Jerusalem and •Muslims
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•Ashkelon • Od (still)
Tel Aviv with equal
•Jesus • Nefesh (soul) •Christians
population
•Haifa
•David Ben Gurion • Neither Jerusalem • Tikvateinu •Hindus
•Eilat or Tel Aviv (our hope) •Circassians
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When departing Israel Which of the Which of the
following Jewish square and in which
at Ben Gurion Airport following facts is not
organizations is city is this fountain
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passengers go th
through
h true about singer Id
t b t i Idan
known for planting located?
stages of security Raichel?
checks in what order? trees in Israel? • Zion Square,
• Has dreadlocks
_ Check –in •Jewish National Fund Jerusalem
• Incorporates
_ Passport Control Ethiopian music •The Jewish Agency • Dizengoff Sq, Tel Aviv
_ Luggage X-ray • Stella Maris Sq, Haifa
• Is 25 years old •Hadassah
_ Security Officer
• Sings “Bo’i”
g •Maccabi • Begin Sq, Be’er Sheba
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In which of the Who is this famous
In what year was the Which of the
following ways is it Israeli?
Yom Kippur war? following famous
not possible to climb
Israelis did not serve
Massada?
• 1967 as Prime Minister? • Shimon Peres
• 1989 • David Ben Gurion • S. Y. Agnon
• Cable Car
• 1973 • Golda Meir • Menachem Begin
• Foot Path
• 1948 • Yitzhak Rabin • Amos Oz
• Ramp
• Elevator • Chaim Weitzmann
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The following questions are based on clips from Israeli TV.
Keep your eyes on the screens!
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In the McDonald’s In the Israeli commercial In the ELAL commercial
commercial, Israelis make satirizing Jewish history celebrating the 60th year of
fun of themselves for the we find out “what really Israel’s independence, we
amount of excitement a visit happened” in the story of see new Olim (immigrants)
from the US President Exodus. What product is from all over the world
generates. Where was an the commercial selling? singing Hatikva, Israel’s
employee NOT pulled out national anthem, together.
from to go make a burger for One of the singers is a new
George W. Bush? Olah from Ethiopia. What
is she wearing around her
Home neck?
Pool
Club __________________ __________________
Cinema
4 In the YES satellite TV
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In the commercial We can see that Israel is In th Elite Coffee
I the Elit C ff
where we find out Israel commercial we see a a place where LGBT commercial, in addition to
is a “dangerous place”, crowd of Ultra Orthodox pride is open and learning about Israeli
but sometimes having Jews protesting the accepted, but what else coffee culture, we get a
nothing to do with the content of TV broadcasts. can we learn about taste of the Israeli
Arab-Israeli conflict, (a) What is the original Israeli sports from the chutzpah (rough edge).
what drink did the guy song spoofed in the commercial which takes What did the captain ask
offer the girl on the commercial and (b) in place on the Tel Aviv the waiters for?
beach? what three languages are beach?
they singing?
(a) ________________
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(b) ________________
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The campaign to return In the commercial showing g In the Tzav Piyus commercial
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military equipment “without the average Israeli driver we watch a pair of Israelis as
identification and without searching for parking on a they go through a common
prosecution” shows us how crowded Tel Aviv street, we phenomenon – Israelis love to
deeply routed military service see the Jewish mind at work “critique” many aspects of what
is in Israeli society, so much as he finds a creative solution goes on in Israel, but in the end
so that sometimes it’s hard to to the problem. What colors returning home is exciting
let go. What weapon did the on the curb signify no parking because “we have no other
citizen pull out to show the on an Israeli street? country”. What are the two
security guard? things traditionally done,
depicted i thi
d i t d in this commercial, i l
when an ELAL plane lands at
Ben Gurion Airport?
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