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Twelve Days of Christmas... Games, Part VII: We Are the World

We have decided that having both answers and new games on the same day is a bit too much. So, we're going to post the rest of the games, Monday through Thursday, until we're up to 12. Then we'll post the remaining 11 sets of answers and winners. That will put us into January, but that's OK.

For today's game, we've got pictures of Hanukkah celebrations around the world, divided into two sets of eight. For the first set, you have to identify the U.S. city that is shown. For the second set, you have to identify the (non-U.S.) country that is shown. There are details in each that tell the tale, though in some cases they are subtle. The very last photo is particularly tough (but doable). If you wish to use Google to research details, that's OK, but please don't use Google's image search engine.

And with that explainer out of the way, here we go with the U.S. cities:

1. What U.S. city is this?

A smallish menorah; in the background is a large bridge and tall buildings


2. What U.S. city is this?

A very large menorah in front of a brightly lit building; there are also rainbows visible


3. What U.S. city is this?

A large menorah; through it you can see a government building and an arch


4. What U.S. city is this?

A familiar-looking man with a yarmulke and a familiar-looking woman kiss


5. What U.S. city is this?

A man in a dreidel costume stands in front of a menorah, in front of a glitzy hotel done in Italianate style


6. What U.S. city is this?

A black and white photo of five rabbis lighting a menorah in front of a colonial-style building


7. What U.S. city is this?

A sports arena, and a menorah; lots of green and white is visible


8. What U.S. city is this?

A large yellow, menorah; the letters on it are just barely visible, and spell out b-a-l-t...

And now the countries:

9. What country is this?

Two Jewish men in a gondola with a menorah pass by a covered bridge


10. What country is this?

Images of menorahs are projected on a very large, very ancient wall


11. What country is this?

A man lights a giant menorah, a red and white flag with some sort of design on it is visible in the background


12. What country is this?

A view of a menorah looking up at it; behind is a VERY tall, tapered skyscraper in modernist style


13. What country is this?

Two Asian men and a Jewish man light a menorah, there is a very, very long wall behind them


14. What country is this?

8 rabbis and a man in black turtleneck and military pants light a menorah


15. What country is this?

A very large, classical-style gate with a statue of a Roman chariot on top; a menorah is in the foreground


16. What country is this?

Three men light a menorah, one of them is a very familiar-looking Catholic priest, with black suit and cleric's collar

Submit your guesses here! (Z)



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