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100

This is the sound a male turkey makes.

What is gobble gobble?

100

This is the name of the ship on which the pilgrims came to America.

What is the Mayflower?

100

This is the sport that is most watched on Thanksgiving Day

What is football?

100

It took the Pilgrims this many months to cross the ocean to come to America.

What is 2 months?

100

This is the city that hosts the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade every year.

What is New York City?

200

Female turkeys are called hens. This is the name for a male turkey. 

What are toms or gobblers?

200

This is the year of the the first Thanksgiving.

 a)1421 b)1521 c)1621

What is 1621?


200

When people think of Thanksgiving, these are the people who began the tradition of sharing a meal together.

Who are the pilgrims and Native Americans?

200

The Mayflower held approximately this many pilgrims.

What is 100?

200

This Native American was a friend to the Pilgrim settlers and acted at their interpreter.

Who is Squanto?

300

Being the popular menu item, Americans consume approximately this many turkeys each Thanksgiving. 

a.) 20 million   b.) 800,000   c.) 50 million

Americans consume almost 50 MILLION turkeys each Thanksgiving! 

300

Thanksgiving is held on this day every year.

What is the fourth Thursday of November?

300

This is what people traditionally start doing the day after Thanksgiving.

What is Black Friday shopping / Decorating for Christmas?

300

In a tradition that is said to have started 2,400 years ago, this part of the turkey is saved and snapped as a good luck custom.

What is the wishbone?

300

Which state consumes the most turkey every Thanksgiving?

What is California?

400

Even though the turkeys bought at a store can't fly, this type of turkey can fly for over a mile. 

What is a Wild Turkey?

400

The first Thanksgiving lasted this many days.

What is 3?

400

This president declared Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863.

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

400

This type of potato is often served with Thanksgiving dinner.

What is sweet potato?

400

This was the year of the first Thanksgiving football game.

a.) 1913   b.)  1854    c.) 1954   d.) 1876

What is 1876?

500

Even though they can run at this many miles per hour, many turkeys still end up on the Thanksgiving menu. 

a.) 20 mph    b.) 12 mph    c.) 4 mph

What is 12 miles per hour?

500

What was the name of the tribe that helped the Pilgrims? a) Iroquois b) Wampanoag c) Apache

What is the Wampanoag?

500
This city was the host of the first Thanksgiving parade. 

What is Philadelphia? The first parade was hosted by the Philadelphia Gimbel Brothers Department Store in 1920. It would go on to inspire the famous Macy’s Day Thanksgiving Day Parade, which began in 1924. 

500

This type of pie is the most popular at Thanksgiving

What is pumpkin pie?

500

This famous soup company invented the green bean casserole.

What is Campbells?

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