TURKEYS
PILGRIMS
PUMPKINS
FIRST THANKSGIVING
TRADITIONS
100
This part of the turkey is snapped as a good luck custom.
What is the wishbone?
100
The passage to American took this long. Choices: 55 days 66 days 77 days
What is 66 days?
100
This part of the pumpkin can be roasted for a tasty snack.
What is a pumpkin seed?
100
This utensil was not used at the First Thanksgiving.
What is a fork?
100
Thanksgiving is this day every year.
What is the 4th Thursday of November?
200
This is the name for a male turkey.
What is a Tom?
200
This percentage of the Pilgrims died their first year in America. Choices: 25% 50% 75%
What is 50%?
200
This was the weight of the largest pumpkin recorded in history. Choices: 264 lbs 2624 lbs 6264 lbs
What is 2624 lbs?
200
This was the year the Pilgrims had their first Thanksgiving feast. Choices: 1492 1602 1621
What is 1621?
200
Many people run this kind of race (generally a 5k) on Thanksgiving morning.
What is a turkey trot?
300
This president was the first to pardon a turkey in 1947, beginning the annual tradition.
Who is Harry Truman?
300
The Mayflower was this type of ship, NOT a passenger ship.
What is cargo?
300
This cousin of the pumpkin is sometimes used as a pumpkin replacement in recipes.
What is butternut squash?
300
This is how long the first Thanksgiving lasted. Choices: 1 days 3 days 1 week
What is 3 days?
300
The first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was in this decade.
What is the 1920's?
400
This percentage of Americans eats turkey on Thanksgiving. Choices: 95% 76% 61%
What is 95%?
400
This is the name the Pilgrims were originally known by.
What are the Puritans?
400
The pumpkin originated on this continent.
What is North America?
400
Scholars believe this meat was served at the first Thanksgiving.
What is deer?
400
Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving in this month.
What is October?
500
This is the amino acid that is said to make you sleepy after eating turkey (though scientists say the effect is probably just from overeating).
What is tryptophan?
500
The Pilgrims' original destination was the mouth of this river in New York.
What is the Hudson?
500
This nutrient gives pumpkins their orange color.
What is beta carotene?
500
This tribe was at the first Thanksgiving.
What is the Wampanoag tribe?
500
The average American consumes this many calories on Thanksgiving. Choices: 2,500 4,500 7,000
What is 4,500?
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