Turkey Time
This bird is the symbol of Thanksgiving dinner.
What is a turkey?
The _(NFL Team)__ have played Football on Thanksgiving Day since 1934.
Who are the Detroit Lions?
The opposite of cold.
What is hot?
This warm sauce is poured over mashed potatoes.
What is gravy?
Thanksgiving always falls on this day of the week.
What is Thursday?
A traditional way to cook a turkey besides roasting—sometimes done outdoors in oil.
What is deep-frying?
The Dallas Cowboys became Thanksgiving staples beginning in this decade.
What are the 1960s? (1966 specifically)
This planet is known as the Red Planet.
What is Mars?
A Thanksgiving dessert made from a spiced orange squash.
What is pumpkin pie?
This Native American tribe shared the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims.
Who are the Wampanoag?
The fleshy growth under a turkey’s beak is called this.
What is a wattle?
Three consecutive strikes in bowling are known as this term.
What is a turkey?
The atomic number 79 belongs to this chemical element.
What is gold?
This dish of sweet potatoes and marshmallows.
What is yam casserole / sweet potato casserole?
This East Coast city hosts the longest-running Thanksgiving Day parade in the U.S.
What is Philadelphia?
This U.S. president began the tradition of "pardoning" a turkey.
Who is George H. W. Bush? (began the modern pardoning tradition in 1989)
The Heisman Trophy is awarded in this sport.
What is college football?
This mathematical term refers to a quantity that has magnitude but no direction — unlike a vector.
What is a scalar?
Oyster stuffing is especially traditional in this U.S. coastal region where Pilgrims settled.
What is New England?
This author of “Mary Had a Little Lamb” spent 17 years campaigning for Thanksgiving to become a national holiday.
Who is Sarah Josepha Hale?
The scientific term for the species of the domesticated turkey is Meleagris ______.
What is gallopavo? (Scientific name: Meleagris gallopavo)
This NFL franchise has the worst all-time Thanksgiving Day win percentage among teams that have played at least 20 games.
Who are the Chicago Bears? (worst Thanksgiving winning percentage among teams with 20+ games)
This paradox is defined as a statement that contradicts itself yet still may be true — an example is “This sentence is false.”
What is a paradox?
This pie gets its name from a nut that grows inside a hard brown shell on southern U.S. trees.
What is pecan pie?
The very first Thanksgiving likely took place in this year. (Within ±1 year accepted.)
What is 1621?