Food
This thickening agent is commonly used to make gravy from turkey drippings.
What is flour (or cornstarch)?
What year was the first Thanksgiving celebration in the colonies?
When is 1621?
This movie is subject to great debate whether it should be watched on Halloween or Christmas.
What is The Nightmare Before Christmas?
This day marks the unofficial beginning of the holiday shopping season.
What is Black Friday?
This popular fall drink combines espresso, milk, and pumpkin-flavored syrup.
What is a PSL?
This canned product was introduced in 1912 and helped make a berry sauce into a Thanksgiving staple.
What is canned cranberry sauce?
Approximately this percentage of the Wampanoag population died during epidemics between 1616 and 1619, before the famous 1621 harvest feast.
What is 75%?
In the Friends Thanksgiving episodes, this character famously gets a turkey stuck on their head.
Who is Monica Geller?
This is the most common distance in MILES for an annual Thanksgiving morning Turkey Trot.
What is 3.1 miles?
This common injury sends people to the ER during pumpkin-carving season, often caused by a knife slipping.
What is a hand or finger laceration?
This vegetable casserole is often topped with crispy fried onions.
What is green bean casserole?
his 1675–1676 conflict between English colonists and a Native American confederation led to widespread destruction of Indigenous communities in New England.
What is King Philip’s War?
In It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, which character spends Halloween waiting for the Great Pumpkin?
Who is Linus?
Beyond the food and festivities, this is the central purpose of Thanksgiving as a national holiday.
What to express gratitude and reflect on the blessings of the past year.
30 SECOND SPEED GRATITUDE
This astronomical event marks the beginning of fall in the Northern Hemisphere, when day and night are approximately equal in length.
What is the autumnal equinox?
This amino acid found in turkey is often blamed for Thanksgiving food comas.
What is tryptophan?
This president moved Thanksgiving up a week in 1939 to lengthen the Christmas shopping season.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, what creature attacks the Hogwarts Halloween feast?
What is a troll?
These TWO teams have played each Thanksgiving since 1966.
Who are the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys?
This is the name of the orange-and-black butterfly that migrates south in the fall.
What is a monarch butterfly?
This chemical reaction between amino acids and reducing sugars gives roasted turkey skin its characteristic browned flavor.
What is the Maillard reaction?
Lincoln officially established Thanksgiving as a national holiday in this year. BONUS: The celebration was this many days.
What is 1863? What is 3 days?
What is the name of the Addams family's disembodied hand?
Who is Thing?
What is the name of the annual parade that has been held in New York City since 1924?
What is the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade?
Deep-frying a frozen or partially frozen turkey can cause this dramatic and dangerous reaction when ice turns to steam and displaces hot oil.
What is an oil overflow that often causes fire?