Traditions
What annual tradition involves the U.S. president ceremonially sparing a turkey from becoming dinner?
What is the presidential turkey pardon?
Which nut is the main ingredient in the traditional Southern dessert often made with corn syrup?
What is the pecan?
What is the name of the astronomical event that marks the shortest day and longest night in the Northern Hemisphere?
What is the Winter Solstice?
In this animated holiday special, Charlie Brown attempts to host a Thanksgiving meal with help from Snoopy.
What is A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving?
What was the name of the ship that brought the English Separatists to Plymouth in 1620?
What is the Mayflower?
What NFL team traditionally plays a Thanksgiving Day home game alongside the Detroit Lions?
What are the Dallas Cowboys?
Which part of the turkey contains the most dark meat because it is made up of muscles?
What are the legs and thighs?
What is the birthstone traditionally associated with November?
What is topaz?
(Citrine is also a modern November birthstone.)
In the sitcom Friends, which character famously gets a Thanksgiving turkey stuck on their head?
Who is Joey Tribbiani?
Thanksgiving is a national holiday in this North American country, where it is celebrated in October.
What is Canada?
What is the name for the day after Cyber Monday?
What is Giving Tuesday?
Which part of the turkey is formally known as the furcula and is often fought over?
What is the wishbone?
What is the birth flower traditionally associated with November?
What is the chrysanthemum?
(Also known as the mum).
This 1987 comedy-drama directed by John Hughes follows a young man trying to get home to Chicago for Thanksgiving, played by Steve Martin.Which actor plays Neal Page, a businessman trying to get home for Thanksgiving in Planes, Trains and Automobiles?
What is Planes, Trains and Automobiles?
(Note: the film was released in 1987 and directed by John Hughes.)
Which Indigenous nation participated in the 1621 harvest gathering at Plymouth?
Who are the Wampanoag?
What 19th-century U.S. president declared a national Thanksgiving Day in 1863?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What is the name for the small, fleshy appendage that hangs over a turkey’s beak?
What is the snood?
Which two zodiac signs fall partly or entirely within November?
What are Scorpio and Sagittarius?
In the sitcom How I Met Your Mother, what nickname does Marshall give the tradition of slapping Barney on Thanksgiving?
What is the “Slapsgiving” tradition?
Which Asian country celebrates Labor Thanksgiving Day on November 23?
What is Japan?
In what year did the first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade take place?
What is 1924?
Which Indigenous agricultural system grows corn, beans, and squash together, with each crop benefiting the others?
What are the Three Sisters?
What pigment produces many of the red and purple colors seen in autumn leaves?
What are anthocyanins?
Which 1947 holiday film starring Maureen O’Hara features a Thanksgiving Day parade scene in New York City?
What is Miracle on 34th Street?
Homowo is a harvest festival celebrated by the Ga people, meaning “hooting at hunger” ... which country celebrates this?
What is Ghana?