Thanksgiving Foods
The most popular Thanksgiving dessert.
What is Pumpkin Pie?
The day and month of the year on which we traditionally celebrate Thanksgiving
What is the fourth Thursday of November?
The name of the ship the Pilgrims boarded to start their journey to the New World.
What is the Mayflower?
This department store is known for their extravagant Thanksgiving parade.
What is Macys?
This President first ordered a national day of Thanksgiving.
Who is George Washington?
The red fruit that is often served alongside the turkey for Thanksgiving dinner.
What are cranberries?
A race many people run on Thanksgiving morning.
What is a turkey trot?
This Native tribe joined the Pilgrim in the first Thanksgiving.
Who are the Wampanoag?
The annual Thanksgiving Day Parade concludes with the arrival of this person.
Who is Santa Claus?
This president was the first to "pardon" a turkey.
Who is John F Kennedy?
Green Bean casserole was invented by what "Soup" company.
What is Campbell Soup?
This dark day follows Thanksgiving and is known for big bargain sales.
What is Black Friday?
This is the reason the Pilgrims chose to leave England.
What is religious persecution?
The loose red skin attached to the underside of a turkey’s beak
What is a Wattle?
This president proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
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 many turkeys are consumed every year at Thanksgiving.
What is 46 million?
This is the year of the first Thanksgiving.
What is 1621?
The Founding Father who wanted the wild turkey to be the symbol of the United States of America.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
This President made turkey pardoning an annual event.
Who is George H.W. Bush?
The average person consumes this many calories, on average, at Thanksgiving dinner.
What are 4,500?
A tradition where 2 people break this specific part of a turkey.
What is a wishbone? The person whose part has the centerpiece will have their wish come true.
This native is known throughout history for his skill for speaking English, his political negations 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 NFL football Franchise has the most Thanksgiving games played.
What are the Detroit Lions with 83?
This President declared two Thanksgivings in one year.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Concerned that the shortened Christmas shopping season might dampen the economic recovery, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a Presidential Proclamation moving Thanksgiving to the second to last Thursday of November. As a result of the proclamation, 32 states issued similar proclamations while 16 states refused to accept the change and proclaimed Thanksgiving to be the last Thursday in November. For two years two days were celebrated as Thanksgiving - the President and part of the nation celebrated it on the second to last Thursday in November, while the rest of the country celebrated it the following week.
To end the confusion, Congress decided to set a fixed-date for the holiday. On October 6, 1941, the House passed a joint resolution declaring the last Thursday in November to be the legal Thanksgiving Day. The Senate, however, amended the resolution establishing the holiday as the fourth Thursday, which would take into account those years when November has five Thursdays. The House agreed to the amendment, and President Roosevelt signed the resolution on December 26, 1941, thus establishing the fourth Thursday in November as the Federal Thanksgiving Day holiday.