Pilgrim & Plym ⛵
This popular football league always plays games on Thanksgiving Day.
What is the NFL?
The dangling piece of red flesh on a turkey's throat is called this.
What is a snood?
This berry, native to North America, is the traditional source of the holiday's favorite sauce.
What is a cranberry?
The massive Thanksgiving Day Parade is most famously held in this U.S. city.
What is New York?
This U.S. President officially declared Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
The day after Thanksgiving is known informally by this shopping-related name.
What is Black Friday?
Which founding father famously suggested the turkey should be the national bird of the U.S.?
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
The most popular pie served on Thanksgiving is typically not apple or pumpkin, but this nut pie.
What is a pecan pie?
The parade is put on annually by this large department store.
What is Macy's?
This autumnal activity involves searching a field for the largest fruit of the gourd family, often used for carving or baking pies.
What is pumpkin picking?
This U.S. President officially declared Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
The fleshy, bumpy growth on the head and neck of a turkey is called this.
What is a Caruncles?
The cooking term for the practice of stuffing a turkey with a mixture of bread, spices, and other ingredients.
What is the classic, holiday character float that always signals the end of the parade?
Who is Santa Claus?
The tradition of breaking the wishbone for good luck is traced back not to the Pilgrims, but to this ancient civilization.
Who were the Romans?
The Pilgrims first landed not at Plymouth Rock, but at the tip of this famous U-shaped Massachusetts peninsula.
What is Cape Cod?
The sound a male turkey makes is a "gobble," but the sound a female turkey makes is known by this three-letter name.
What is a A Cluck? (or a Yelp)
This dark, gelatinous byproduct of roasting the turkey is used to create the holiday's most popular sauce (besides cranberry).
What are Pan Drippings? (or Juices, used for Gravy)
In 1947, this beloved Christmas movie used actual footage from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
What is Miracle on 34th Street?
This is the primary pigment responsible for making leaves turn yellow and gold in the autumn.
What is carotenoids?
The Pilgrims were originally a separatist group who first fled England to this country before sailing to the New World.
What are The Netherlands? (or Holland/Leiden)
In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved the date of Thanksgiving up a week to help the economy, causing this short-lived, controversial nickname for the holiday.
What is Franksgiving?
This French culinary term describes the act of coating a turkey or other poultry in fat, often bacon or salted pork, before roasting it to keep it moist.
What is barding?
The first department store to put on a Thanksgiving Day parade with parade balloons was this store in Philadelphia in 1920.
What is Gimbel's?
This common Thanksgiving phenomenon is the name given to the drowsy feeling often blamed on the chemical L-tryptophan in turkey.
What is a food coma?