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Angela wilder
Brooklyn
August 28, 2026
711 thank uou Reply
Matel Rena Tobin
Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada
August 28, 2026
8/11.
Please can you write the names of the kings as it’s written in the sefarim, נביאים?
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Edwing
Hertfordshire 🏴🇬🇧
August 28, 2026
9/11. Reply
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August 28, 2026
hmm. 3/11
would love if you could have hebrew names alongside the english. I probably would have done a lot better.
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Corinne Jones
Germany
August 28, 2026
7/11 not a very happy result. Must study more. Reply
Rita Forbes
Clinton
August 27, 2026
Good Evening,
Thank you, [10/11]. Have a nice evening.
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Janet
TN
August 27, 2026
I'm an idiot Reply
Feigue Cieplinski
Middletown
August 30, 2026
in response to Janet:
No Janet: It means that must study the books related to the Kings. NOT an : idiot by any means" i teach that and made horrible mistakes 8/11 . It bothers me two but I don't call myself an idiot and neither are you. Keep trying and learning as I will do too, Reply
geo
Guelph
August 27, 2026
I’m hopeless. I knew 5 but I really just guessed at a few. I didn’t recognize the majority of names. Reply
Helen Allan
Scotland UK
August 27, 2026
8/11 Interesting and challenging. Reply
Minucha
Chicago, IL
August 27, 2026
I did very poorly: 4 correct out of 10. Most of my answers were guesses & I guessed wrong. I guessed correctly on only 2 questions. In fact, I only knew 2 for sure: The king who slew the giant & the king who built the temple. Reply
Sam Kulik
Montreal
August 27, 2026
Fact is most of the Kings of Israel, Judah and Judea were evil men Reply
VMS
Five Towns
August 27, 2026
Please note that David slew Goliath with a sling and NOT a slingshot.
A slingshot is a forked frame, to which an elastic strap (or a pair of elastic bands connected by a small pouch for receiving projectiles) is fastened to the ends of the fork, typically used for shooting small stones. In British English it is called a catapult.
On the other hand, a sling is two lengths of cord connected by a small pouch for receiving a stone. When throwing stones, the sling is whirled to obtain high velocity and one end of the cord is then released at the correct time to allow the stone to fly to its target. David was an expert with a sling, so his stones probably (about 1-1/2 ounces) each left the sling at about 130 M.P.H. The way that the Tanach (1 Samuel 17) describes the stone embedding in Goliath's forehead indicates that it was going about that speed.
There are many videos on the web of people with slings throwing stones (or steel balls) at targets. Many are VERY accurate, as was David
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Mark Rogers
Werribee Victoria Australia
August 27, 2026
8 out of 11 Reply
Yiscah Sarah
Nairobi
August 26, 2026
9/11 Reply
reb yuddle
New Jersey
August 24, 2026
3/11 My Worst One Yet But.. Reply
11/11!