Food
The name for a baby turkey is this!
What is a poult?
These two NFL teams have played a game on Thanksgiving Day since 1966.
Who are the Detroit Lions and the Dallas Cowboys?
This holiday was what the very first Macy's Thanksgiving Parade was commemorating.
What is Christmas?
Approximately this many cranberries are in one pound.
What is 440
This "Friends" character got a turkey stuck on their head at Thanksgiving.
Who is Joey
In "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving", this character wears the chef hat.
Who is Snoopy?
This U.S. president was the first to ever pardon a turkey.
Who is George H.W. Bush?
This U.S. founding father referred to the turkey as "A bird of courage".
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This many cities in the United States are named "Pilgrim".
What is two - Pilgrim, MI, and Pilgrim, Dade County, MO.
The most expensive Thanksgiving dinner on record cost this much.
What is $181,000, in 2019. That is $222,084 in current dollars!
In 1995, this popular Thanksgiving vegetable was the first to be successfully grown in space.
What is a potato?
In 2023, approximately this many people shopped over Thanksgiving weekend.
What is 200.4 million!
The first pilgrims referred to themselves as this.
Who are the "Separatists"
Marilyn Monroe, Meryl Streep, Matt Damon and Taylor Swift all have this fun fact in common.
What is that they are all direct descendants of passengers of the Mayflower
This town cancelled Thanksgiving because they couldn't make pumpkin pies.
What is Colchester, CT, in the winter of 1705
Roughly this many calories are in a half-cup of bread stuffing.
What is 120?
This Founding Father once proclaimed, “No citizen of the U.S. shall refrain from turkey on Thanksgiving Day”!
Who is Alexander Hamilton
This year was when Thanksgiving was formally adopted as a United States Federal Holiday.
What is 1789 (thanks George Washington!)
On Thanksgiving Day 1989, this event disrupted the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
What is snow - for the first time in 50 years!
President Calvin Coolidge famously received this as a Thanksgiving gift.
What is a live raccoon - he pardoned it, adopted it, and named it "Rebecca"!
According to Guinness World Records, the largest pumpkin ever grown weighed this much.
What is 3,699 pounds?
These three foods are the most-disliked parts of a traditional Thanksgiving meal.
What are 1. Cranberry Sauce, 2. Turkey, and 3. Green Bean Casserole.
This U.S. president did not believe in Thanksgiving, because he thought it was "too religious"!
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This movie holds the all-time record for the highest-grossing weekend in Thanksgiving history.
What is Frozen 2
The English colonists and Indigenous Americans did not have this food at the very first Thanksgiving.
What is turkey!