Holiday History
Political Leaders
Turkey Trivia
Football
Parades
100
Utensils used at the First Thanksgiving
What is a spoon and a knife? NO FORKS!
100
The president who declared Thanksgiving a national holiday.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
The noise that female turkeys make.
What is chirp? Male turkeys gobble. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1cQ9r6ioY0
100
The year the first Thanksgiving day football game was played?
What is 1876?
100
What was used in the Macy's parade before the balloon animals?
What are live animals from Central Park Zoo?
200
The inventor of Green Bean Casserole.
Who is the Campbell's Soup Company?
200
The President that moved the date of Thanksgiving one year.
Who is FDR?
200
Where did the turkeys that we eat at Thanksgiving originate?
What is Mexico? The domestic turkeys people now eat are descended from a Mexican subspecies of M. gallopovo. The Spanish took the birds back home, where they were a big hit due to their size and taste. Europeans then created several breeds of domestic turkey. Later, English colonists brought the birds back to their home continent when they settled the American East Coast
200
Who created the tradition of football on Thanksgiving day?
What is the Intercollegiate Football Association?
200
The original name of the Macy's Parade?
What is Macy's Christmas Parade?
300
How long the first Thanksgiving lasted.
What is three days?
300
The first president to pardon a Thanksgiving turkey?
Who is Harry Truman?
300
The state that produces the most turkeys.
What is Minnesota? They produce 46 million annually by 450 farmers.
300
The team that has played every Thanksgiving Day since 1934 but one.
What is the Detroit Lions?
300
What happened to the original parade balloons?
What is they were released into the air? But by 1929, float minders installed safety valves, which kept the floats drifting through the air for literally days. Once a float landed, the lucky person who found it could return it to the address printed on its side and get a $100 check from Macy's. This practice, as you might imagine, didn't always go well. It was canceled in 1932, after one float soared so high, it wrapped itself around a plane's wing and sent it into a tailspin.
400
The person who wrote an eyewitness account of the first Thanksgiving.
Who is Edward Winslow?
400
The person who wanted the turkey to be the national bird?
Who is Benjamin Franklin.
400
Where do wild turkeys tend to sleep?
What is in the trees?
400
The reason why the one NFL team that has played everything Thanksgiving Day since 1934 missed a game one year.
What is because of WWII?
400
What is the year of the first Macy's Parade?
What is 1924?
500
The person responsible for our national Thanksgiving holiday.
Who is Sarah Josepha Hale?
500
The president who was not a fan of the idea of a Thanksgiving holiday?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
500
The skin on a turkey's beak.
What is a snood? The loose red skin attached to the underside of a turkey’s beak is called a wattle.
500
The teams that played in the first traditional Thanksgiving Day football game.
What is Princeton and Yale?
500
The city and sponsor of the first Thanksgiving Day Parade.
What is Philadelphia and Gimbels? Contrary to popular belief, it was not Macy’s in New York City but Gimbels department store of Philadelphia that produced the first Thanksgiving Day parade, a festivity designed to kick off the 1920 Christmas holiday shopping season.
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