The First Thanksgiving
This traditional food was not served at the first Thanksgiving.
What is turkey?
Other than one time, this is the official date of Thanksgiving.
What is the fourth Thursday in November?
City of the famous Macy's Day Parade.
What is New York City?
This football team has played almost every Thanksgiving since 1934.
Who are the Detroit Lions?
Only this type of turkey gobbles.
What is the male?
Popular wild game served at first Thanksgiving along with lobster, seal and swan.
What is venison?
The 16th President, this gentleman officially declared Thanksgiving a holiday.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The first Macy's Day Parade did not have these (the main feature of today's parades).
What are floats?
The name of many races traditionally held on Thanksgiving Day.
What is the turkey trot?
The noise of this type of turkey is called a cackle.
What is the female?
The length of the first Thanksgiving.
What was three days?
Mother of Thanksgiving, Sarah Joseph Hale, also founded American Ladies Magazine and is the author of this nursery rhyme about a white-fleeced animal.
What is Mary Had a Little Lamb?
Animals from the first Macy's Day Parade came from this famous park zoo.
What is Central Park Zoo?
The name of our northern neighbor, this country also celebrates Thanksgiving but on a different day.
What is Canada?
For this profession the day after Thanksgiving is the busiest day of the year.
What is plumbers (who are unclogging garbage disposals, kitchen and bathroom drains).
These settlers joined Native Americans for the first Thanksgiving celebration.
Who were the Pilgrims or the settlers at Plymouth Plantation?
Third president of the United States, this POTUS refused to declare Thanksgiving a holiday.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This Pennsylvania city hosts the 6abc Dunkin' Donuts Thanksgiving Day Parade.
What is Philadelphia?
The percentage of Americans who eat turkey on Thanksgiving Day. (68%, 78 % 88%)
What is 88%?
In 1953 when a Swanson employee accidentally ordered a shipment in excess of 260 tons of turkey, this aluminum foil dinner trend was invented.
What is the tv dinner?
This Native American tribe joined the settlers in celebrating the bounty of their harvest at the first Thanksgiving. (Wampanoag, Aztec, Cherokee)
Who were the Wampanoag?
This is the year of the very first Thanksgiving vs the date Thanksgiving became an official holiday in 1863.
What is 1621?
This was the first video game character featured in Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.
Who is Sonic the Hedgehog?
Norfolk Island is the only area on this small continent that celebrates Thanksgiving Day along with the United States.
What is Australia?
In 1926 Vinnie Joyce of Mississippi sent Calvin Coolidge this live masked animal to be served for Thanksgiving. The President pardoned the little black and white creature and kept it as a pet whom he named Rebecca.
What is a raccoon?