FREE! Click here to Join FunTrivia. Thousands of games, quizzes, and lots more!

Hebrew Alphabets Trivia Quiz

An introduction to the alphabets of the Hebrew language and various formats thereof.

A photo quiz by gentlegiant17. Estimated time: 3 mins.

Author
gentlegiant17

Time
3 mins

Type
Photo Quiz

Quiz #
411,710

Updated
Feb 02 23

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
94

Awards
Top 35% Quiz

One at a Time - Single Page

Question 1 of 10

1. Here is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, in its modern printed format.

It is also used in mathematical set theory.

What is its name? Hint

Vav

Aleph

Yod

NEXT>

Question 2 of 10

2. Here is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, but in a different format.

Which format is it? Hint

Pictogram, 1st century AC Hebrew

Handwriting, modern Hebrew

Proto-Canaanite script

In fact this is the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet

NEXT>

Question 3 of 10

3. The Hanukkah dreidel has four Hebrew letters, one on each side of the cube.

Which letter, the third in the alphabet, is seen here? Hint

Lamed

Gimel

Nun

NEXT>

Question 4 of 10

4. Which letter is seen on the right side of this Hanukkah dreidel? Hint

Final form handwritten Pe

Final form printed Nun

Printed Nun

Printed Pe

NEXT>

Question 5 of 10

5. The final form printed, printed and handwritten modern formats of a Hebrew letter are shown here. It has the same ordinal number as its English parallel.

Which letter is it? Hint

Chet

Resh

Mem

Ayin

NEXT>

Question 6 of 10

6. Two instances of the printed letter Bet are seen here.

What is the difference in the pronunciation between the instances? Hint

Left is 'T'-like, right is 'S'-like

Both are 'V'-like

Left is 'B'-like, right is either 'B'-like or 'V'-like

Left is 'B'-like, right is either 'B'-like or 'T'-like

7. The third and second lines from the bottom in this photo contain all the letters of the printed modern Hebrew alphabet, including final form ones.

Given there are 5 final form letters, how many unique letters does the Hebrew alphabet have? Hint

NEXT>

Question 8 of 10

8. The multilingual keybaord - at the bottom of the photo you can see the language choice menu by which one switches between English and Hebrew.

Instead of a few mouse clicks, what is the Windows keyboard shortcut to perform the switch? Hint

Shift-Del

Ctrl-Alt-Del

Alt-Shift

Alt-F4

NEXT>

Question 9 of 10

9. This is a key by which to decode a certain script to modern printed Hebrew which appears at the right side of both columns.

Which scripts appears on the left side of both columns? Hint

Hangul

Ancient English

Neanderthal pictogram

Ancient Hebrew

NEXT>

Question 10 of 10

10. Here you can see the Hebrew script used by and named after one of the most important commentators of the Bible (Old Testament) and the Talmudic writings, who lived in France in the 11th century BC.

What name is he commonly known by? Hint

Rashi

Rami

Dante

Oscar

(Optional) Create a Free FunTrivia ID to save the points you are about to earn:

Select a User ID:

Choose a Password:

Your Email:

View Image Attributions for This Quiz

Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Here is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, in its modern printed format. It is also used in mathematical set theory. What is its name?

Answer: Aleph

Georg Cantor, the mathematician who created set theory, used Aleph to denote cardinal numbers.

For example, Aleph-zero denotes the cardinality of natural numbers.

Hebrew has no vowels as such, however, Aleph along with the three other choices is sometimes considered as a quasi-vowel.

2. Here is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, but in a different format. Which format is it?

Answer: Handwriting, modern Hebrew

Hebrew uses different format for the printed and the handwritten languages.

On top of that there is the 'niqqud' which is a system of diacritics used to denote vowels (which otherwise do not exist as such).

On both printed and handwritten Hebrew it is very rare to see 'niqqud' used, which makes it harder to read for people who do not know the language.

3. The Hanukkah dreidel has four Hebrew letters, one on each side of the cube. Which letter, the third in the alphabet, is seen here?

Answer: Gimel

This is the printed format of the third letter of the alphabet, Gimel.

It does look like the Greek Lambda.

The other three dreidel letters are Nun, He and Pe - together the form the acronym NGH"P or Nes Gadol Haiah Po (a big miracle happened here, alluding the miracle of the cruse of oil).

4. Which letter is seen on the right side of this Hanukkah dreidel?

Answer: Printed Nun

Nun is the fourteenth letter of the modern Hebrew alphabet. Its printed and handwritten formats are pretty close to each other.

Modern Hebrew has five final form letters, that is letters which are written differently when they appear at the end of a word.

5. The final form printed, printed and handwritten modern formats of a Hebrew letter are shown here. It has the same ordinal number as its English parallel. Which letter is it?

Answer: Mem

Mem is the thirteenth letter of the modern Hebrew alphabet, parallel to the English 'M'.

Resh is close to 'R' but in Hebrew it is guttural hence sounds differently. The other two choices, Ayin and Chet, are guttural ones which have no English parallel.

6. Two instances of the printed letter Bet are seen here. What is the difference in the pronunciation between the instances?

Answer: Left is 'B'-like, right is either 'B'-like or 'V'-like

A small look into the world of Hebrew diacritics, the dot inside the left side Bet is called a Dagesh and explicitly signals it should be pronounced 'B'. Otherwise, it can be either 'B' or 'V'. Commonly, like other diacritics, the Dagesh will be omitted from print or handwriting leaving it up to the reader's prior knowledge or guess as to how to pronounce it. Hard language for beginners, cannot be denied.

I did give you that - the other choices given are not very difficult to eliminate.

7. The third and second lines from the bottom in this photo contain all the letters of the printed modern Hebrew alphabet, including final form ones. Given there are 5 final form letters, how many unique letters does the Hebrew alphabet have?

Answer: 22

22 plus 5 final form ones. Of course, the same goes to the modern handwritten format.

8. The multilingual keybaord - at the bottom of the photo you can see the language choice menu by which one switches between English and Hebrew. Instead of a few mouse clicks, what is the Windows keyboard shortcut to perform the switch?

Answer: Alt-Shift

Very often multilingual keyboard users need to switch between one language to another. Alt-Shift comes very handy for that. It does not solve the similarly often issue whereas one inadvertently types in the wrong language for a minute or so.

When switching, as Hebrew is written left-to-right, also the direction changes. It is no fun authoring a mixed language document. No fun at all.

9. This is a key by which to decode a certain script to modern printed Hebrew which appears at the right side of both columns. Which scripts appears on the left side of both columns?

Answer: Ancient Hebrew

This is the ancient Hebrew scripts used by the Hebrews of the Judea and Israel kingdoms during the first half of the first millennium BC. It is also called Da'ats (דעץ), and I just alt-shifted.

Answer: Rashi

Rashi (רש"י) is a Hebrew acronym of Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki.

By the 11th century BC the printed Hebrew scripts became very close to what we are using today.

Hebrew is written left-to-right, so the Aleph is top-left and the Tav bottom-right.

Source: Author gentlegiant17

This quiz was reviewed by FunTrivia editor stedman before going online.
Any errors found in FunTrivia content are routinely corrected through our feedback system.