Ye Olde Stuff You Forgot from School
The inspiration for the holiday celebrated in 1621.
What is the First Thanksgiving
This NFL team has played a Thanksgiving game every year since 1934 (except during WWII).
Who are the Detroit Lions?
In Friends, this character famously wears a turkey on their head.
Who is Joey?
Myth: Turkey makes you sleepy because of tryptophan
What is False - the food coma is mostly from overeating.
This term describes the loose skin hanging from a turkey’s neck.
What is a wattle?
This U.S. president made Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This other NFL team added a yearly Thanksgiving game in 1966.
Who are the Dallas Cowboys?
This cartoon dog leads the Thanksgiving meal in A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.
Who is Snoopy?
Myth: You should wash your turkey before cooking it.
What is “No — it spreads more bacteria than it removes”?
Male turkeys are called this, while females are called hens.
What are toms/gobblers?
DAILY DOUBLE!!
The ship that brought the Pilgrims to the New World in 1620.
What is the Mayflower?
This type of scoring play is worth 2 points.
What is a safety?
In How I Met Your Mother, Ted calls the group’s Thanksgiving by this punny name.
What is Slapsgiving?
Myth: Cranberry sauce always came in a can originally.
What is “False — cranberry sauce existed long before the canned version”?
This U.S. president began the informal tradition of “pardoning” a Thanksgiving turkey.
Who is Harry Truman? (Modern tradition formalized later.)
The city where the first Thanksgiving feast is believed to have taken place.
What is Plymouth?
The official name of the championship game played after the NFL season.
What is the Super Bowl?
This long-running animated sitcom often features “Turkey Day” disasters for the Belcher family.
What is Bob’s Burgers?
Stuffing cooked inside the turkey is always safe.
What is “False — it can be unsafe unless it reaches 165°F internally”?
Wild turkeys can surprisingly do this — despite their size.
What is fly? (Short bursts up to 55 mph!)
This woman, known as the “Mother of Thanksgiving,” campaigned for decades for Thanksgiving to become a national holiday.
Who is Sarah Josepha Hale?
The NFL introduced this third, prime-time Thanksgiving game beginning in 2006.
What is the Thursday Night Thanksgiving game?
This celebrity chef is known for the iconic line “Butter makes everything better,” especially at Thanksgiving.
Who is Paula Deen?
Myth: The Pilgrims wore all-black outfits with buckles.
What is “False — their real clothing was colorful and buckle-free”?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
Turkeys have excellent vision because they can see in this dimension, unlike humans.
What is UV (ultraviolet) light?