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Don't be a Turkey
100
What is the most popular dish at Thanksgiving dinner?
What is a Turkey
Fun Fact: Americans buy 365 million pounds of turkey during the last week of November!
100
How long did the first Thanksgiving last?
What is 3 days.
They had enough food for a 72-hour FEAST.
100
According Merriam-Webster, what year did the term "Friendsgiving" become popular?
What is 2007
100
Are pumpkins technically a fruit or a vegetable?
What is a fruit
100
What is an adult male turkey called?
(Hint: There is more than one answer)
What is Tom or Gobbler
200
What process refers to soaking a turkey in a saltwater solution before cooking it?
What is brining
200
How many women were at the first Thanksgiving dinner?
What is five
200
Black Friday is the biggest day of the year for what trade profession?
What are plumbers...ewwwww
200
About how many pumpkin pies are consumed each Thanksgiving?
What is 50 million
200
Who wanted to make a turkey the National bird?
(Hint: His face is on one of the US dollar bills)
Who is Benjamin Franklin
He argued that it was more respectable and native to North America.
300
In San Francisco, people substitute their Thanksgiving turkey with...
What are Crabs
300
In 1995 this popular Thanksgiving vegetable was the first to be grown in space?
(Hint: There was a movie about this called The Martian)
What are Potatoes
300
On average, how many calories are consumed PER PERSON on Thanksgiving?
(Hint: Round to the nearest thousand)
What is 4,500 calories
300
What century were pumpkin pies first made?
What is the 17th Century
300
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, how much does the heaviest turkey on record weigh?
What is 86 pounds
400
What popular way of cooking Southern food has become a popular way for cooking turkeys?
What is deep fried
400
What professional football team has played almost every Thanksgiving since 1934?
What are The Detroit Lions
400
Which president declared two days for Thanksgiving holiday?
Who is James Madison
400
How much did the largest pumpkin pie weigh?
(Hint: Round to the nearest thousand)
What is 3,699 pounds.
400
Who was the most UNGRATEFUL president?
Who is Thomas Jefferson. He REFUSED to celebrate Thanksgiving.
Honest (and grateful) Abe Lincoln was the first president to make it a PERMANENT holiday.
500
What four ingredients go into making a BASIC pie crust?
What is flour, salt, water, and butter
500
Allegedly, what year was the first Thanksgiving?
What is 1621; sometime between September and November.
Fun Fact:In the fall of 1621, at least 90 Wampanoag people and 52 English people celebrated a successful harvest in what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts.
500
How much did the world's most expensive Thanksgiving dinner cost?
(Hint: The meal fed 12 people.)
What is $181,000.
The dinner included two 20-lb free-range turkeys covered in $2,000 edible gold flakes and seasoned with imported spices from the Middle East that came with a gravy infused with a $3,650 bottle of Louis XIII cognac. The meal also included seafood bread stuffing.
500
What were pumpkins previously known as?
(Hint: Two answers apply...Allegedly in French and English)
What is a "gros melon" and "pompions"
500
On average, how many questions does the Butterball Turkey Hot Line get during the holiday season?
What is 100,000 calls.
The phone number is 1(800)288-8372.