The 1st Thanksgiving
The First Thanksgiving was celebrated in the year:
A. 1601
B. 1611
C. 1621
What is 1621?
This is the process of soaking the turkey in a saltwater solution before cooking.
What is brining?
Turning 62 on November 19th, first a child star, then a Yale Grad, and Silence of the Lambs Superstar, this Actress has had quite a career in film.
Who is Jodie Foster?
This is the shape of a Stop Sign.
What is an octagon?
This 1947 movie opens with an actual shot from Macy's 1946 Thanksgiving Day Parade starring Maureen O'Hara & Natalie Wood.
What is Miracle on 34th Street?
This is approximately how many Pilgrims came over on the Mayflower:
A. 80
B. 100
C. 120
What is 100?
For those who don't like turkey for Thanksgiving dinner, this is usually the substitute.
What is ham?
(About 25 million pounds of ham versus 736 million pounds of turkey are purchased for Thanksgiving.)
This singer-songwriter born Nov. 26, 1939 in Brownsville, Tennessee had 18 Top Billboard hits... most famous, What's Love Got to Do With It, which was also the title of the film about her life.
Who is Tina Turner?
This is the plural of Moose.
What is Moose?
"I've Got Plenty to Be Thankful For," from the 1942 Irving Berlin musical film Holiday Inn was sung by this singer/actor.
Who was Bing Crosby?
This is the president who proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday on October 3, 1863.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
(Sarah Josepha Hale, the woman who wrote "Mary Had a Little Lamb," convinced Lincoln to make Thanksgiving a national holiday after writing letters for 17 years.)
About 40% of Campbell's total sales of cream of Mushroom Soup come from Thanksgiving dinner. This soup goes mostly into what side dish?
What is green bean casserole?
This American Cartoonist born Nov. 26, 1922 in Minneapolis, Minnesota gave us the timeless joy of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving in 1973.
Who is Charles Schulz?
This is the most consumed beverage in the world after water.
What is Tea?
In this 1987 film, Steve Martin plays Neal Page, who is rerouted through rural Kansas on his trip home to Chicago, due to a surprise snowstorm. When he's forced to seek refuge with Del Griffith (John Candy), the two weather the holiday travel madness together.
What is Planes, Trains, and Automobiles?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
These are the 2 'P' towns the Pilgrims first landed at & then settled in, name one.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Name both towns.
What are Provincetown & Plymouth?
These are the four ingredients you need to make a pie crust.
What are flour, water, salt, & butter/shortening (may also accept sugar).
This EGOT Winner (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, & Tony) and day-time host on The View was born Nov. 13, 1955 in NY, NY.
Who is Whoopi Goldberg?
She was the last Queen of France.
Who was Marie Antoinette?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Released on Christmas Day 1993, This Odd Couple reunited in this classic film about two curmudgeonly neighbors/friends vying for the same love-interest. Name this duo.
DOBLE JEOPARDY: Name the love-interest & movie title.
Who is Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon?
Who is Ann-Margret & Grumpy Old Men?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Name 1 of the meats that was served at the first Thanksgiving feast.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: name 2 meats!
What is venison, duck, and goose?
(Also served--fish, porridge, and bread made from corn).
This is what an Adult Female Turkey is called.
What is a Hen?
That Girl born Nov. 21, 1937 in Detroit, Michigan serves as the National Outreach Director for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Who is Marlo Thomas?
This is the closest Planet to our Sun.
What is Mercury?
Name the Title & Star of this modernized version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol released in 1988 about a successful New York City TV executive whose bad temper, negativity, and cold ambition has driven away the love of his life but is saved by visits from the 3 Ghosts & joyfully learns the true meaning of Christmas.
What is Scrooged and Bill Murray?