The First Thanksgiving
The Big Meal
Turkey
Miscellaneous
Modern History
100
This is the name of the ship on which the pilgrims came to America.
What is the Mayflower?
100
Americans eat approximately 535 million pounds of this on Thanksgiving.
What is Turkey?
100
This is the sound a male turkey makes.
What is gobble gobble?
100
This "honest" president is the one who officially declared Thanksgiving a national holiday.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
This city is the location of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
What is New York City?
200
The pilgrims landed at this rock.
What is Plymouth Rock?
200
Approximately 94% of American Thanksgiving meals include this tangy item.
What is cranberry sauce?
200
Female turkeys are called hens. This is what male turkeys are called.
What are toms?
200
The day after Thanksgiving (in America), often referred to as the biggest shopping day of the year, is nicknamed this.
What is Black Friday?
200
This independently minded state continued to celebrate Thanksgiving on the old date (last Thursday) instead of the new date (fourth Thursday) as late as 1956.
What is Texas?
300
This tribe of Native Americans were invited to the first Thanksgiving feast.
What are the Wampanoag?
300
This part of the turkey is saved and snapped as a good luck custom.
What is the wishbone?
300
This is the name of the skin that hangs from a turkey's neck.
What is the wattle?
300
In Canada, Thanksgiving is celebrated during this month.
What is October?
300
This magazine first displayed Norman Rockwell's Thanksgiving portrait, "Freedom From Want".
What is the Saturday Evening Post?
400
The first Thanksgiving lasted this many days.
What is 3?
400
These are the two most popular pies baked at Thanksgiving.
What are pumpkin and apple?
400
It's called the "Gopher" state, but maybe "Gobbler" state would be more appropriate because this state produces the most turkey each year.
What is Minnesota?
400
These two football teams play on Thanksgiving Day every year.
Who are the Detroit Lions and the Dallas Cowboys?
400
This president moved Thanksgiving up one week to help stimulate the Christmas shopping economy.
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
500
He was the captain of the Mayflower.
Who was Christopher Jones?
500
This is the busiest travel day of the year.
What is the day after Thanksgiving (Friday)?
500
This is what a baby turkey is called.
What is a poult?
500
This type of soil is required to grow cranberries.
What is bog?
500
He was the first U.S. president to give a "presidential pardon" to a turkey, though other presidents had spared turkeys before him.
Who was Ronald Reagan?
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