Turkey Day Trivia
This amino acid found in turkey is said to set off a chemical chain reaction that makes you sleepy.
What is tryptophan?
This is the worlds largest parade, started in 1924.
What is the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
This movie features an eight-year-old troublemaker who must protect his house from a pair of burglars.
What is Home Alone?
Founded in 1872 and spanning three western states, this is the oldest of America's national parks.
What is Yellowstone National Park.
Of New England's six states only these two have names taken from the languages of indigenous peoples.
What are Connecticut and Massachusetts?
This founding father argued that the turkey should be named the national bird.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This Presidential tradition dates back to 1863.
What is pardoning of the turkey?
This story in this holiday favorite spans both the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.
What is Miracle on Thirty-fourth Street?
Three of the 10 highest waterfalls in the world are located in this California park.
What is Yosemite National Park?
At 6288 feet above sea level and the most topographically prominent mountain east of the Mississippi River, this is the highest peak in New England.
What is Mount Washington?
Over 770 Million pounds of these are consumed on Thanksgiving Day.
What are cranberries?
This 19th century President first established a national day of Thanksgiving.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This movie and the song it inspired is based on true story about a dump closed at Thanksgiving.
What is Alice's Restaurant?
This park is also home to the lowest point in the western hemisphere.
What is Death Valley National Park?
New England is home to these four members of the elite Ivy League.
What are Brown, Dartmouth, Harvard and Yale?
Only the male turkeys do this.
What is gobble?
This 20th century President established the holiday as the next to last Thursday in November.
Who is FDR?
This movie documents a concert held on Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976.
What is The Last Waltz?
This is the most visited National Park hosting more than 9 million visitors each year.
What is Great Smoky Mountains National Park?
Home to more than 122,000 people, this is the eighth most populous city in New England.
What is Hartford, CT?
The Turkey was raised as food as early as 200 BC by this new world civilization.
Who are the Aztecs?
This NFL team has hosted a Thanksgiving Day game every year since 1934.
Who are the Detroit Lions?
This animated television special made its debut at Christmastime on December 9, 1965.
What is A Charlie Brown Christmas?
This state hosts the largest National Park - covering an area of 13,000 square miles or 13.2 million acres.
What is Alaska? (Wrangell-St. Elias National Park)
This was the last of the present day New England states admitted to the Union.
What is Maine?