Traditions
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Fun Facts
100
Percentage of people in the US that eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
What is 88 percent?
100
This parade started in 1924 and was first known as a Christmas Day Parade.
What is the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
100
This dish was improved because of the ashes it was originally baked in.
What is Cornbread?
100
The Puritan faction known as the English Separatist Church, are also known by this name.
Who are the Pilgrims?
100
People are groggy on Thanksgiving not because of tryptophan, but most likely because of this.
What is Overeating?
200
This state raises more turkeys than any other state in the U.S.
What is Minnesota?
200
Before 1927, the parade featured these instead of the inflatable characters we know today.
What are real live animals?
200
A chef from this country perfected the modern pumpkin pie.
What is France?
200
The pilgrims first landed here before sailing on to Plymouth Rock.
What is Cape Cod?
200
Thanksgiving is not just an American holiday, this country celebrates Thanksgiving the second Monday in October.
What is Canada?
300
This started in 1920, and is still a Thanksgiving tradition.
What is playing football?
300
The Parade was cancelled in 1942, 1943, and 1944 for this.
What is World War 2?
300
Many foods have been considered aphrodisiacs, but this Thanksgiving traditional food was Henry VIII favorite.
What are Sweet Potatoes?
300
This English speaking Indian taught the Pilgrims how to fish, hunt, and plant seeds.
Who is Squanto?
300
Black Friday is the busiest day of the year for this profession, someone has to clean up after household guests who "overwhelm the system."
What is Plumbing?
400
Sarah Josepha Hale, the woman who convinced President Lincoln to make Thanksgiving a national holiday, is also famous for writing this song.
What is Mary Had A Little Lamb?
400
2nd to the US government, Macy's is the largest consumer of this.
What is Helium?
400
The inventor of the green bean casserole was inducted into this for the innovation of her dish.
What is the Inventors Hall of Fame?
400
The Pilgrims believed that water was contaminated and often made people sick, so the primary beverage was this.
What is Beer?
400
Swanson misjudged the number of frozen turkeys it would sell at Thanksgiving by 26 tons, so they decided to develop these.
What are TV Dinners?
500
Each year the President of the United States does this for one special turkey.
What is pardon?
500
This balloon has been designed and redesigned 7 times.
What is Snoopy?
500
This Thanksgiving food can turn your urine purple.
What is Turkey?
500
The Pilgrims did not use this utensil which we all use today for our thanksgiving meals.
What is a fork?
500
Gobble is what male turkeys do, this is the sound that female turkeys make.
What is Cackle?
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