Foods
The most popular main course on Thanksgiving.
What is turkey?
True or False
The Pilgrims landed in New York.
False
The Pilgrims landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
The orange vegetable commonly used as a symbol of Thanksgiving.
What is a pumpkin?
The name of the ship the Pilgrims boarded to start their journey to the New World.
What is the Mayflower?
This U.S. state is the largest producer of cranberries, harvesting over half of the nation’s supply.
What is Wisconsin?
These are the Thanksgiving colors.
What are the Thanksgiving Colors: Orange is a pumpkin, Yellow is the corn, Brown is the turkey with stuffing to adorn and Red are the cranberries?
Green Bean casserole was invented by what "Soup" company.
What is Campbell Soup?
The day and month of the year on which we traditionally celebrate Thanksgiving
What is the fourth Thursday of November?
The indigenous people of North America who are a common symbol of Thanksgiving.
Who are Native Americans?
or
Wampanoag tribe?
This Native tribe joined the Pilgrims in the first Thanksgiving.
Who are the Wampanoag?
This department store is known for their extravagant Thanksgiving parade.
What is Macys?
This NFL football Franchise has the most Thanksgiving games played.
What are the Detroit Lions with 85 as of 2024?
The most popular Thanksgiving dessert.
What is Pumpkin Pie?
A race many people run on Thanksgiving morning.
What is a turkey trot?
The English separatists who came to the United States in 1620.
Who were Pilgrims?
This is the reason the Pilgrims chose to leave England.
What is religious persecution?
The annual Thanksgiving Day Parade concludes with the arrival of this person.
Who is Santa Claus?
This city has hosted America’s oldest Thanksgiving parade since 1924, featuring floats and a turkey-shaped balloon.
What is Philadelphia?
The red fruit that is often served alongside the turkey for Thanksgiving dinner.
What are cranberries?
What two NFL teams traditionally host games on Thanksgiving?
Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys
The conical-shaped basket that is generally filled with fruits and vegetables.
What is a cornucopia?
This is the year of the first Thanksgiving.
What is 1621?
This native is known throughout history for his skill for speaking English, his political negotiations between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoags, and his guidance to teach the Pilgrims how to teach them how to grow corn, and where and how to fish and hunt beaver.
What is Squanto?
This year was the first Thanksgiving NFL game with the Detroit Lions playing
What is 1934?
This large root vegetable belongs to the morning glory family. Don't let the name fool you, they are not in the nightshade family with the other potatoes.
What are sweet potatoes?
This day follows Thanksgiving when there are big sales and many people go shopping.
What is Black Friday?
A large, native bird to North America that is large enough to feed a family.
What is a wild turkey?
True or False:
Sarah Josepha Hale is credited for making Thanksgiving a national Holiday in the United States.
True. Through her writing as an editor of Godey's Lady's Book, she advocated for a unified national Thanksgiving celebration, beginning as early as 1846. Her efforts, which included writing to multiple presidents, culminated in President Abraham Lincoln's 1863 proclamation establishing the last Thursday of November as a national Thanksgiving Day.
The Founding Father who wanted the wild turkey to be the symbol of the United States of America.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
This famous Thanksgiving song, commonly associated with Christmas, was originally written for a Thanksgiving Sunday school program.
What is Jingle Bells
The average person consumes this many calories, on average, at Thanksgiving dinner.
What are 4,500?
This meat is the most popular alternative to turkey on Thanksgiving.
What is Ham?
The natives brought this meat to the first Thanksgiving.
What is Deer (Venison)?
The first Thanksgiving lasted this many days.
What is 3?
The loose red skin attached to the underside of a turkey’s beak
What is a Wattle?
The only active NFL franchise to have never played on Thanksgiving.
A. Cincinnati Bengals
B. Jacksonville Jaguars
C. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
What are the Jacksonville Jaguars?