Thanksgiving Foods
What is a cranberry?
What is Thursday?
This animated Thanksgiving TV special first aired in 1973 and features Snoopy.
What is a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving?
The name of the ship the Pilgrims boarded to start their journey to the New World.
What is the Mayflower?
The city where the largest Thanksgiving Day Parade occurs each year.
What is New York City?
In addition to being a revolutionary war hero and our first president, this founding father declared Thanksgiving a national celebration.
Who is George Washington?
When you can't celebrate Thanksgiving with family, you might host one of these instead.
What is Friendsgiving?
The most popular alternative meat to turkey on Thanksgiving.
What is Ham?
The shopping day of sales that follows Thanksgiving.
What is Black Friday?
This famous orange cartoon cat has a well known Thanksgiving TV special.
The Pilgrims came to North America from this European nation.
What is England?
This department store is known for their extravagant Thanksgiving parade.
What is Macys?
This founding father not only has a musical named after him, he also famously declared, “No citizen of the U.S. shall refrain from turkey on Thanksgiving Day!”
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
This famous pop star is in her 'Thanksgiving Era' as a descendent of Mayflower passengers.
Who is Taylor Swift?
Pumpkin pie and apple pie are followed in popularity by this nutty type of pie.
Pecan Pie
A tradition done with a bone from the turkey said to bring good luck to one participant.
What is breaking the wishbone?
The NFL football Franchise has the most Thanksgiving games played at 81.
What are the Detroit Lions?
The state where the Pilgrims landed
What is Massachusetts?
The annual Thanksgiving Day Parade concludes with the arrival of this person.
Who is Santa Claus?
This founding father not only invented bifocals, he also called the Turkey a "bird of courage".
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This household pet has a show every year on Thanksgiving to determine the best of each breed.
What are dogs?
The state that grows the most potatoes in the USA.
What is Idaho?
The cone shaped basket that is generally filled with fruits and vegetables.
What is a cornucopia?
This cold and icy Disney animated film first premiered in theaters on Thanksgiving weekend in 2013.
What is Frozen?
The Pilgrims chose to leave their native country for this reason.
What is religious persecution?
The Thanksgiving parade first appeared on TV in this decade.
What are the 1940's?
This president, whose son would later go on to be president, made pardoning a Turkey an annual tradition in 1989.
Who is George HW Bush?
This chemical found in turkey might make you want to take a Thanksgiving nap.
What is melatonin?
Soup company that invented green bean casserole
What is Campbell's?
Many people run a Thanksgiving Day race with this name.
What is a Turkey Trot?
This TV show from the 90's/early 2000's featured a Thanksgiving episode in every season of its 10 season run. The show was about a group of young adults living in New York City.
What is Friends?
The first Thanksgiving took place in this century.
What are the 1600's?
Or
What is the 17th century?
This movie opens with scenes from the Thanksgiving parade.
What is Miracle on 34th Street?
This president proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The most famous brand of Turkey and has a turkey cooking help line that you can call on Thanksgiving Day.
What is Butterball?
This midwestern state raises the most turkeys for Thanksgiving
Minnesota
The loose red skin attached to the underside of a turkey’s beak
What is a Wattle?
The decade when the first NFL game was played on Thanksgiving Day.
What are the 1920's?
This Native tribe joined the Pilgrim in the first Thanksgiving.
Who are the Wampanoag?
The television network where you can watch the parade on Thanksgiving.
What is NBC?
This president was the first to "pardon" a turkey in 1963.
Who is John F Kennedy?
'Brining' is a term that refers to soaking a turkey in a solution of water and this mineral prior to cooking.
What is salt?