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1. Which one of these gedolim was born in America?(Required)

Rav Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg

Rav Gedalia Schorr

Rav Mordechai Gifter

All of the above

2. Which one of these generational Torah leaders grew up in a chassidic home?(Required)

Rav Menachem Mendel Morgenstern (the Kotzker)

Rav Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev

Rav Tzadok of Lublin

The Steipler

3. Which one of these gedolim had the same surname as his father?(Required)

Rav Aharon Kotler

Rav Leib Gurwitz

The Tzemach Tzedek

Rav Moshe Feinstein

4. Rav Reuven Elbaz and Rav Shimon Baadani, prolific members of the Moetzet Chachmei HaTorah, are products of this yeshivah system:(Required)

Chinuch Atzmai

Novardok

Bnei Akiva

Shas

5. Which one of these transformative figures was not born in the town of Mir?(Required)

Rav Naftali Tzvi Yehuda Berlin (the Netziv)

Rav Eliezer Yehuda Finkel

Rav Isser Zalman Meltzer

Israeli president Zalman Shazar

6. Which one of these gedolim is buried outside Eretz Yisroel?(Required)

Rav Yosef Yoizel Horowitz of Novardok

Rav Meir Shapiro

The Ahavas Yisrael of Vizhnitz

Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky

7. While visiting America in 1938, Rav Elchonon Wasserman visited which Catskills summer camp?(Required)

Camp Torah Vodaath

Camp Agudah

Camp Munk

Camp Mesivta

8. Which tzaddik is known to be the first chassidishe rebbe ever to visit America, arriving in NY in 1890?(Required)

The Buffalo Rebbe

The Yampola Rebbe

The Sulitzer Rebbe

The Boyaner Rebbe

9. Which one of these rabbinic legends never served as a rosh yeshivah in the Tomchei Temimim network of Chabad?(Required)

Rav Yisroel Gustman

Rav Dovid Povarsky

Rav Yitzchok Hutner

Rav Pinchas Hirschprung

10. The 1949–1950 emergency airlift of nearly 50,000 Jews from Yemen to Israel, dubbed “Operation Magic Carpet,” was primarily carried out by which airline?(Required)

El Al

Arkia

Alaskan Airlines

United Airlines

11. During the interwar period, thousands of people from near and far would leave their families and travel at great expense to gather at the kever of which tzaddik on his yahrtzeit?(Required)

Rav Shayale of Kerestir

Rav Nachman of Breslov

The Baal Shem Tov

None of the above

12. Who was the first mashgiach at Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yitzchok Elchanan?(Required)

Rav Moshe Aharon Poleyoff

Rav Yerucham Gorelick

Rav Yaakov Moshe Lessin

Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin

13. When the State of Israel was founded in 1948, which mecca of Jewish life contained a higher Jewish population than the Jewish state?(Required)

Newark

The Bronx

Baltimore

Boro Park

14. During his final years, the Chofetz Chaim made plans to leave Radin and settle down in which city?(Required)

Yerushalayim

Monsey

Petach Tikvah

Vilna

15. Rav Aharon Kotler, Rav Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman, and Rav Yechezkel Sarna all married granddaughters of which leading mussar figure?(Required)

Rav Yisroel Salanter

Reb Shraga Feivel Frank

The Alter of Slabodka

Rav Isser Zalman Meltzer

16. Which one of these Torah giants studied under the Avnei Nezer:(Required)

The Kli Chemdah

Rav Eliezer Yehuda Finkel

The Kozhiglover Rov

All of the above

17. As part of its expansion efforts in the 1950s, Yeshiva Torah Vodaath opened branches in these three locations:(Required)

Queens/Los Angeles/Flatbush

Boro Park/Budapest/Lawrence

Monsey/Far Rockaway/Baltimore

Los Angeles/Monsey/the Bronx

18. How many years did Rav Meir Shapiro lead Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin for?(Required)

2–4 years

5–8 years

9–12 years

13–16 years

19. The overwhelming majority of Hungary’s religious Jews were:(Required)

Spoke Yiddish as their main language

Followers of the Chasam Sofer

Wealthy

Hungarian patriots

20. The 18 productive years that Rav Eliezer Silver spent as chief rabbi of this city were dwarfed by the half century that his son, Rabbi David Silver would later spend there:(Required)

Cincinnati

Springfield

Harrisburg

Columbus

21. Which one of these chassidic rebbes never visited Eretz Yisrael:(Required)

The Minchas Elazar

The Rebbe Rayatz of Chabad

The Sfas Emes

Rav Nachman of Breslov

22. In which one of these famed yeshivos did Rav Moshe Shapiro once serve as Rosh Yeshiva?(Required)

Chaim Berlin

Mirrer Yeshiva

Stamford

Chevron

23. The second Knessia Gedolah of Agudas Yisrael took place in Vienna, Austria in the summer of 1929. Which one of these gedolim attended the Knessiah:(Required)

The Chofetz Chaim

Rav Aharon Rokeach, the Belzer Rebbe

Rav Yisroel Friedman, the Chortkover Rebbe

The Aish Kodesh

24. Which one of these generational figures never stepped foot on American soil?(Required)

The Imrei Chaim of Vizhnitz

Rav Avraham Yitzchok HaKohein Kook

Rav Ovadiah Yosef

Rav Elazar Menachem Shach

25. Which chassidic dynasty has been passed down patrilineally (father to son) for nearly a dozen generations, dating back to the Maggid of Mehzrich?(Required)

Chabad-Lubavitch

Vizhnitz

Sadigur

All of the above

26. Which one of these Torah greats taught at the Hebrew Theological College in Chicago (Skokie)?(Required)

The Novominsker Rebbe

Rav Chaim Kreiswirth

Rav Mendel Kaplan

All of the above

27. In addition to becoming the first American city to have an ordained Orthodox Rabbi, this city made history more than a century later when it opened major league baseball’s first glatt kosher hot dog stand:(Required)

New York

Baltimore

Philadelphia

Los Angeles

28. Which of these Sephardic giants was born in Eretz Yisrael?(Required)

Rav Ovadiah Yosef

Rav Yitzchak Kaduri

Rav Ben Tzion Abba Shaul

The Baba Sali

29. Which one of these top-echelon institutions was strongly associated with the mussar movement?(Required)

Volozhin

BJJ

Ponevezh

Lomza

30. If Rav Nachman founded the Breslov dynasty, then why is he buried in Uman?(Required)

Uman is the Ukrainian name for Breslov

Breslov Rosh Hashanah didn’t fit into any of the songs

He moved to Uman toward the end of his life

He was just born in Breslov, but lived his entire life in Uman

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