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Test Your Yiddish Skills

(answers are at the end)

© 2003 Adrienne Gusoff All rights reserved

1) Which one of these people might best be described as "zoftig?"

• Callista Flockhart
• Lara Flynn Boyle
• Kirstie Alley
• Woody Allen

2) You're driving around in eckveldt (the boondocks) and have no idea where you are. You are:

• farblunget
• farklempt
• fartoost
• farshvitzed

3) You found it! The Holy Grail! A $2000 designer dress for just $39.95! You've found a:

• mechaiyeh
• mishpucheh
• machashafer
• metziah

4) Which one of these people has a "ferbisseneh punim?"

• Michael Jackson
• Leona Helmsley
• Barbara Walters
• Julia Roberts

5) He eats like a pig and wipes his face with the back of his hand. He farts and picks his nose at the dinner table. He curses like a drunken sailor. He's a real:

• shnorror
• gonif
• grubber yung
• mensch

6) Which of these is NOT a body part?

• poulkie
• potchki
• pupik
• punim

7) Which of these is NOT an insult:

• shana maydel
• shmegeggie
• shmendrik
• shlub

8) You've gone to a wild party where you've been downing vodka jello shots like candy. You can barely stand up anymore, and you've made a fool of yourself in front of everyone you know. You are totally, completely:

• fershtayst
• farblunget
• ferchadded
• fershikert

9) Which of these things would you never find at a kosher restaurant?

• shmaltz
• luckshen kugel
• treyf
• kasha varnishkes

10) Of these various uses of "kishka", which one is incorrect?

• "Yes, waiter. I'll have the roast chicken with a side order of kishka."
• "That Yetta, she's such a piece of kishka!"
• "After twenty years of keeping secrets, he finally went to a shrink and spilled my kishkas."
• "If anyone ever tried to mug me, boy, I'd give him such a chamalyiah in the kishkas!"

Answers to Quiz:

Question 1 = C: Kirstie Alley

Question 2 = A: farblunget

Question 3 = D: metziah

Question 4 = B: Leona Helmsley

Question 5 = C: grubber yung

Question 6 = B: potchki

Question 7 = A: shana maydel

Question 8 = D: fershikert

Question 9 = C: treyf

Question 10 = B: "That Yetta, she's such a piece of kishka!"

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