Thanksgiving history
The famous rock where the pilgrims landed
What is Plymouth Rock?
The word means "horn of plenty"
What is cornucopia?
This is the dangling skin under a turkey's neck
What is the wattle?
This poet wrote The Courtship of Miles Standish.
Who is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
Percent of turkey meat that is white meat.
What is 70%?
This president declared Thanksgiving a permanent national holiday. (Other presidents had previously declared one-off national days of Thanksgiving)
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This trade profession makes more house calls on Black Friday than any other day of the year.
What are plumbers?
This is Thanksgiving in Spanish
What is Accion de Gracia?
Book or Author related to this quotation: "Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys; they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji. "
What is "Puddn'head Wilson or who is Mark Twain?
Number of turkeys cooked on Thanksgiving.
What is 46 million?
This Thanksgiving shopping day was recently added to Black Friday as a closely watched commercial metric.
What is Cyber Monday?
This is the common name for vaccinium macrocarpon.
What is cranberry?
The common name for a furcula.
What is wishbone?
Book or author related to this quotation: "And it was never but once a year that they were brought together anyway, and that was on the neutral, dereligionized ground of Thanksgiving, when everybody gets to eat the same thing, nobody sneaking off to eat funny stuff - no kugel, no gefilte fish, no bitter herbs, just one colossal turkey for two hundred and fifty million people - one colossal turkey feeds all."
What is American Pastoral or who is Phillip Roth?
Number of Americans who traveled out of town (50 miles or more) for Thanksgiving in 2019 (AAA)
What is 55 million?
After this Revolutionary war battle, George Washington declared an all-colony Thanksgiving.
What is the battle of Saratoga?
Of the traditional Thanksgiving pies, this one has the fewest calories per slice.
What is pumpkin?
The man who championed the turkey to be America's national bird.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Author of this quotation from "Cashing in on Hunger": "Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday. In spite of its religious form (giving thanks to God for a good harvest), its essential secular meaning is a celebration of successful production. It is a producers' holiday. The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. Abundance is (and ought to be) America's pride - just as it is the pride of American parents that their children never need know starvation.
Percentage of Americans who had Thanksgiving with ten or more family members in 2010. (Pew)
What is 55%?
This is the chief of the Wampanoag Indian tribe that helped the pilgrims.
Who is Massassoit?
This is the average cost for a Thanksgiving dinner for ten (to within $10)
What is $48.91?
This state produces more turkeys than any other.
What is Minnesota?
A short story by Truman Capote, in which Buddy and his elderly cousin Miss Sook invite the school bully to Thanksgiving dinner.
What is "The Thanksgiving Visitor"?
Number of feathers on a mature turkey.
What is 3,500?