History & The Mayflower
The name of the Native American tribe that attended the 1621 feast.
Who are the Wampanoag?
The dangling red fleshy growth on the head and neck of a turkey.
What is the snood?
This classic dessert was likely missing from the first Thanksgiving due to a lack of ovens.
What is pie?
The department store that hosts the annual Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City.
What is Macy's?
The show that features the annual "Turkey Drop" episode where turkeys are thrown out of a helicopter.
What is WKRP in Cincinnati?
This famous rock marks the site where the Pilgrims supposedly first stepped ashore in the New World.
What is Plymouth Rock?
The first U.S. president rumored to have unofficially offered a turkey pardon in the 1870s.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The main ingredients in a classic Thanksgiving dressing or stuffing.
What are bread and herbs?
The parade traditionally ends with the arrival of this jolly man in a red suit.
Who is Santa Claus?
This animated special involves Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and a very non-traditional Thanksgiving meal of popcorn and toast.
What is A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving?
Only 53 of the original 102 passengers survived the first winter in the colony, making them eligible for the feast.
How many Pilgrims were there?
The part of the turkey's body where you find the tasty triangular muscle known as the wishbone.
What is the sternum (or breastbone)?
46 million of this main course are consumed in the U.S. each Thanksgiving.
What is a turkey?
The length of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade route in Manhattan.
What is 2.5 miles?
In this TV show, a character accidentally glues their head into a turkey at the Geller apartment.
What is Friends?
The document signed by the Pilgrims on board the ship, establishing a government for the colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This U.S. President officially started the tradition of the ceremonial turkey pardon in 1989.
Who is George H.W. Bush?
A compound in turkey that is often jokingly blamed for post-meal sleepiness, though its effect is largely overrated.
What is tryptophan?
This animal, often pulling floats, was replaced by balloons in the 1920s to entertain children.
What are live zoo animals?
The title of the famous 1990 movie about a frantic cross-country trip to get home for Thanksgiving.
What is Planes, Trains and Automobiles?
This specific Wampanoag man acted as a translator and taught the Pilgrims how to plant corn and catch fish.
Who is Squanto (or Tisquantum)?
The loud, rapid call male turkeys use to attract females.
What is a gobble?
This vegetable, often confused with a yam, is a root vegetable and is technically a type of morning glory.
What is a sweet potato?
The city where the first Thanksgiving Day parade in the U.S. took place in 1920, hosted by Gimbel Brothers department store.
What is Philadelphia?
This character, voiced by Bob Newhart, became a Thanksgiving dinner guest on The Simpsons after Homer and Bart save him from a fire.
Who is Lurleen Lumpkin? (A trickier one! The question is generally simpler, like "Who is Bob Newhart?")