History
For their feast, the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag ate with knives, spoons, and their fingers, because this common modern utensil had not yet been introduced to English colonists.
What is the fork?
This horn-shaped basket, overflowing with fruits, vegetables, and autumn harvest goods, is a classic Thanksgiving table centerpiece.
What is a cornucopia?
This cooking technique involves spooning or brushing pan juices over a roasting turkey as it cooks
What is basting?
Winning players on Thanksgiving Day are famously rewarded on the field by eating a giant roasted one of these turkey parts.
What is the turkey leg?
Unlike female turkeys (hens), only male turkeys—known as toms or gobblers—make this distinctive vocal sound.
What is a gobble?
In 1941, Congress officially fixed Thanksgiving to this specific Thursday of November.
What is the Fourth Thursday?
This classic cartoon cat was the very first giant helium character balloon in the 1927 Macy's parade.
Who is Felix the Cat?
A turkey's edible internal organs known collectively by this name are sometimes used to make gravy
What are giblets?
These two NFL teams traditionally host a game on Thanksgiving Day every single year
What are the Detroit Lions and the Dallas Cowboys?
A baby turkey is called this.
What is a poult?
The Pilgrims and the Wampanoag celebrated the famous three-day harvest feast in Plymouth in this year.
When is 1621?
John Candy and Steve Martin star in this 1987 comedy about two mismatched travelers trying to get home for Thanksgiving.
What is planes trains and automobiles?
The Campbell Soup Company created this classic Thanksgiving side dish in 1955 using cream of mushroom soup and fried onions.
What is green bean casserole?
Every year, the Dallas Cowboys' Thanksgiving halftime show kicks off the holiday season for this charity organization.
Adult male turkeys grow a tuft of coarse, hair-like feathers on their chests known by the same name as this facial hair.
What is a beard?
This U.S. President officially proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday to be celebrated annually in 1863 during the Civil War
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This popular holiday morning event sees hundreds of thousands of Americans run 5Ks before eating their feast.
What is a turkey trot?
Roughly this many million turkeys are eaten in the United States on thanksgiving each year. (Between 40 and 50 million)
What is 46 million?
This franchise is the only active NFL team that has never played a game on Thanksgiving Day.
What is the Jacksonville Jaguars
In a famous 1784 letter to his daughter, this Founding Father praised the turkey as a "much more respectable bird" than the bald eagle.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The Pilgrims originally intended to settle near the mouth of this New York river before storms blew the Mayflower off course to Cape Cod
What is the Hudson River?
Since 1989, the U.S. President has performed this annual White House ceremony to spare a lucky bird from the dinner table.
What is the presidential turkey pardon?
This Midwestern state leads the U.S. by producing more than half of the nation's cranberry supply.
What is Wisconsin?
This late NFL coach and broadcaster famously awarded multi-legged turkeys (turduckens) to the MVPs of the Thanksgiving Day games he called.
Who is John Madden
This fleshy, bright red appendage hangs over a turkey's beak and turns even brighter red when the bird is excited or agitated.