Thanksgiving Foods
The traditional Thanksgiving dessert
What is Pumpkin Pie?
When we traditionally celebrate Thanksgiving every year
What is the fourth Thursday of November?
The English separatists who came to the United States in 1620
Who were Pilgrims?
The name of the ship the Pilgrims boarded to start their journey to Plymouth, Massachusetts
What is the Mayflower?
Which turkeys can gobble, males, females or both?
What are male turkeys only
When you celebrate Thanksgiving with your friend either in place of or in addition to celebrating with your family.
What is Friendsgiving?
The most popular alternative to having a turkey
What is ham?
The sport people usually watch on Thanksgiving
What is American football?
The orange vegetable commonly used as a symbol of Thanksgiving
What is pumpkin?
The US President who proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This orange Thanksgiving food is high in vitamin A!
What are Sweet Potatoes.
True or False: Pilgrims wore all black
What is false?
Pilgrims actually like colors and wore very colorful clothes.
The food company responsible for making "Green Bean Casserole" a Thanksgiving tradition.
What is Campbell's?
The day after Thanksgiving when there are big sales and many people go shopping
What is Black Friday?
The indigenous people of North America who are a common symbol of Thanksgiving
Who are Native Americans?
The number of Pilgrim women who were at the first Thanksgiving (+/- 1)
What is four?
This red berry has recently been found to promote good oral hygiene and has been used to make toothpaste.
What are cranberries
Statistically this is America's favorite Thanksgiving side dish
What is stuffing?
The amount of calories consumed in a typical Thanksgiving dinner (+/- 500)
What are 4500?
The Thanksgiving Day event in New York City where there are large balloons, marching bands, singers, and dancers
What is the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
The first crop the Native Americans taught the Pilgrims how to grow
What is corn?
The month the first Thanksgiving most likely took place
What is September?
The red, loose skin under a turkey's head
What is a wattle?
The modern turkey pardon did not become an annual tradition until this administration and has been done by each president since.
What is the George H.W. Bush administration.
The number of pumpkin pies that are consumed on Thanksgiving (+/- 5 million)
What is 50 million?
The most common repairman called on, or around, Thanksgiving Day.
What is a plumber?
(food clogging the kitchen sink!)
The conical-shaped basket that is generally filled with fruits and vegetables
What is a cornucopia?
The first Thanksgiving lasted this long.
What is three days?
Which cutlery item (a utensil used for eating) was not invented until 10 years AFTER the first Thanksgiving?
What is a fork
Most likely the real meat served at the first Thanksgivings
What is venison?