Jewish News Quiz: Jan. 6, 2023

What does Prince Harry say in his new memoir about his infamous decision to wear a Nazi costume to a 2005 theme party?

That he would do it again

That he received corporal punishment for it

That he did it at the urging of his brother, Prince William

That he did it "with the blessing of a close Jewish friend"

A unit of Bucharest's city council recently voted to do what?

Keep a bust of a Nazi collaborator in a city park

Remove a bust of a Nazi collaborator from a city park

Remove the unit on the Holocaust from the social studies curriculum

Censure a colleague who retweeted a neo-Nazi group on Twitter

The first winter edition in 85 years of the Maccabi Games, the "Jewish Olympics," took place this week in what country?

Israel

Germany

United States

Sweden

Which entry from the Forward's list of the hottest Jewish trends for 2023 was declared wired?

Pickles

My Unorthodox Life

Hanukkah gnomes

Jewish dating apps

Which of the following did Pope Benedict XVI, who died this week at 95, NOT do?

Made the first papal visit to an American synagogue

Participated in the Hitler Youth during World War II

Allowed the use of a prayer that seeks to convert Jews to Christianity

Made Pope Pius XII, who remained silent during the Holocaust, a saint

More American Jews are choosing cremation. Which of the four major Jewish movements discourage the practice?

Orthodox

Orthodox and Conservative

Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform

Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist

What happened this week at the Protestant Mount Zion Cemetery in Jerusalem?

A judge ruled against a developer seeking to move the cemetery to make way for a new wing of an adjacent synagogue

Two men who appeared to be Haredi Jews were captured on video vandalizing gravestones

Protesters interrupted the funeral of a Palestinian rights activist

Benjamin Netanyahu, seeking to quelch fears his government will be hostile to Christians, toured it

In his whimsical predictions for 2023, the Forward's PJ Grisar imagines what fate for a Twitter competitor called "Kvetch"?

It gets acquired by Elon Musk, who is legally obligated to convert to Judaism to close the deal

It wins over antisemites who find themselves gradually charmed by Jewish humor

It loses popularity after yielding to hard-liners who insist it close down every Shabbat

It launches a viral feature that pairs you with an ideological enemy for you to debate

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