Thanksgiving Foods
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100
What kind of potatoes do people usually make for Thanksgiving dinner?
What is: Mashed potatoes or Sweet potatoes
100
What do people like to do the Friday after Thanksgiving?
What is: Shop for sales / shop for xmas
100
This animal is the main food that is ate on Thanksgiving.
What is: Turkey
100
What does it mean to be grateful?
What is: to be thankful
100
What part of your body can you use to help draw a turkey?
What is: your hand
200
What is the most popular dessert at Thanksgiving dinner?
What is: Pumpkin pie
200
What is a popular sport that people play or watch on Thanksgiving?
What is: Football!
200
What was the name of the ship/boat that traveled from England to America?
What is: Mayflower
200
What year was the first Thanksgiving?
A) 1681
B)1642
C)1621
D)1617
What is: (C) 1621
200
What part of the turkey is pulled by two people and the person that has the bigger piece will have good luck or their wish granted?
What is: the wishbone
300
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the heaviest turkey weighed how much? 60, 70, 80, 90
What is: 80lbs
300
Where is the famous Thanksgiving Day parade located?
What is: New York
300
Who were the English people who came to the United States in 1620?
What is: Pilgrims
300
When does the United States celebrate Thanksgiving? (day/month)
What is: 4th Thursday of every November
300
This holiday figure is at the end of the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade.
Who is: Santa Clause!
400
What do you call the "sauce" that is popular to put on your mashed potatoes?
What is: Gravy
400
What are two things you can see if you watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade?
What is: Balloons, bands, floats, lots of people (or any other answer that Amanda says is correct) ;-)
400
This group of people helped the Pilgrims survive the first winter in America.
Who are: the Native Americans
400
What was the main dish at the Thanksgiving feast with the Pilgrims and the Native Americans? (Hint: it was NOT turkey!)
What is: probably duck
400
Name the popular green vegetable often made into a casserole on Thanksgiving?
What are: green beans
500
What is the name of the red fruit that is often served at Thanksgiving dinner? (used as a sauce to put on top of turkey)
What is: cranberries
500
What is the name of this Holiday thanksgiving movie?
What is: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
500
Which of these U.S. Presidents made Thanksgiving an official holiday in 1863.
President George Bush,
President Abraham Lincoln
President Calvin Coolidge
Who is: President Abraham Lincoln
(will also accept George Washington 1861)
500
Which Founding Father wanted the Turkey to be our national bird rather than the Bald Eagle?
A) Benjamin Franklin
B) George Washington
C) Alexander Hamilton
D) Thomas Jefferson
Who is: (A) Benjamin Franklin
500
What is the part of the turkey that hangs down under it's chin called?
What is: the wattle