Thanksgiving Foods
The most popular main course on Thanksgiving.
What is turkey?
True or False
The Pilgrims first 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. The Nina, Pinta or Mayflower
What is the Mayflower?
This vegetable that is white, smashed then mixed with butter and milk was not served at the first Thanksgiving.
What are mashed potatoes?
In 1789, this president declared a day of "public thanksgiving and prayer" during his first term as president, though it was not made a yearly event.
Hint, he was our first president of the US.
Who is George Washington?
Name 2 out of 4 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 Pilgrim in the first Thanksgiving. The Miwok or Wampanoag?
Who are the Wampanoag?
This department store is known for their extravagant Thanksgiving parade.
What is Macys?
This President made turkey pardoning an annual event. President Regan or George Bush?
Who is George H.W. Bush?
What sport is typicall played on Thanksgiving day
FOOTBALL!
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 famous person.
Who is Santa Claus?
This president was the first to "pardon" a turkey.
Who is John F Kennedy?
There is a famous parade that happens every Thanksgiving. Name the city or the store that hosts it. Hint that store is in the Santa Rosa mall on the north side. They sell a lot of clothes and shoes
New York, Macy's
The red fruit that is often served alongside the turkey for Thanksgiving dinner.
What are cranberries?
Roughly, how many turkeys are consumed every year at Thanksgiving. 100 or 46 million?
What is 46 million?
The conical-shaped basket that is generally filled with fruits and vegetables. A egg basket or cornucopia?
What is a cornucopia?
This is the year of the first Thanksgiving 1921 or 1621?
What is 1621?
Describe a turkey or a pilgrim
Answers will vary
Name a business or federal agency that is closed on Thanksgiving day.
Schools, garbarge, post office
Do male or female turkeys gobble
Male
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?
Answers will vary
The Founding Father who wanted the wild turkey to be the symbol of the United States of America, Nixon or Benjamin Franklin?.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
Which President refused to celebrate Thanksgiving as a national holiday, Trump or Thomas Jefferson?
Thomas Jefferson was against the government celebrating Thanksgiving because he believed it violated the separation of church and state.
This day named after a dark color is the annual shopping event that takes place the day after Thanksgiving in the United States, typically falling between November 23 and 29. It is considered the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season, known for major sales and discounts offered by retailers both in-store and online
Black Friday
The average person consumes this many calories, on average, at Thanksgiving dinner. 500 or 4,500?
What are 4,500?
This meat (aka smoked pork) is a popular alternative to turkey on Thanksgiving.
What is Ham?
The natives brought this meat to the first Thanksgiving. This animals has 4 legs and horns.
What is Deer (Venison)?
How many days do we get off total for Thanksgiving break?
What is 9?
What is the loose red skin attached to the underside of a turkey’s beak, a wattle or a beard?
What is a Wattle?
This president proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday. He was also responsible for ending slavery in our country in 1863. He was also our 16th president.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
True or false, President Bush was the first president to Pardon a turkey? What does that even mean?
True. the U.S. President spares a specific turkey from becoming Thanksgiving dinner, granting it a presidential pardon in a White House ceremony. The spared turkey then lives out its days in a special sanctuary, typically under the care of experts.