Thanksgiving Foods
The most popular main course on Thanksgiving. It can be roasted, smoked, or even deep fried.
What is turkey?
This company's "Turkey Talk Line" answers about 100,000 turkey-related calls in November and December.
What is Butterball?
The orange vegetable commonly used as a symbol of fall and in the most popular dessert at the Thanksgiving table.
What is pumpkin?
The name of the ship the Pilgrims boarded to start their journey to Plymouth, Massachusetts
What is the Mayflower?
What food was not served at the first Thanksgiving?
A. Mashed potatoes
B. Pumpkin
C. Seafood
What is A. Mashed potatoes?
This is a race many people run on Thanksgiving morning.
What is a turkey trot?
This traditional Thanksgiving side dish was invented by Campbells to show American households how to turn a vegetable and cream of mushroom soup into comfort food.
What is green bean casserole?
The day after Thanksgiving when there are big sales and many people go shopping
What is Black Friday?
The conical-shaped basket that is generally filled with fruits and vegetables and is also called a horn-of-plenty.
What is a cornucopia?
How many days did the first Thanksgiving last?
What is 3?
This President was the first to "pardon" a turkey.
Who is John F Kennedy?
Both the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and America’s Thanksgiving Parade conclude with this event which hints at one of the next major holidays to celebrate.
What is the arrival of Santa Claus?
The most popular Thanksgiving dessert usually topped with whipped cream.
What is pumpkin pie?
Most people eat a mountain of this kind of spud on Thanksgiving, topped with a river of gravy.
What are mashed potatoes?
The day and month of the year on which we traditionally celebrate Thanksgiving here in the US.
What is the fourth Thursday of November?
This tribe of indigenous people living in America participated in the first Thanksgiving.
Who are the Wampanoag?
The name of the Native American who escaped slavery and spoke English, which made him helpful as a translator for the different peoples there.
Who is Squanto or Tisquantum?
This President made turkey pardoning an annual event.
Who is George H.W. Bush?
Only this type of turkey makes a "gobble, gobble" sound. The other turkeys cackle instead.
What are male turkeys?
The English separatists called Pilgrims came to the United States in 1620 for this reason.
What is religious freedom?
Which of these is a sentence fragment?
A. I ran to the store.
B. Before I baked the pie.
C. I needed to get a crust.
What is B. Before I baked the pie?
The second most-popular entree besides turkey is this, a close relative of bacon.
What is ham?
This bird native to North America is large enough to feed a family and almost became the US's national bird.
What is a wild turkey?
Approximately this many Pilgrims were on the Mayflower.
What is 100? (102)
This President refused to celebrate Thanksgiving as a national holiday.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The Founding Father who wanted the wild turkey to be the symbol of the United States of America.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
This state raises the most turkeys (approximately 49 million annually!)
What is Minnesota?
This sweet side dish is made of a red fruit harvested in bogs and many people argue over which version is better, homemade or from a can.
What is cranberry sauce?
These two NFL teams traditionally play on Thanksgiving.
Who are the Detroit Lions and the Dallas Cowboys?
What is wrong in this sentence?
Many people say that turkeys and cornucopias are the official symbols of thanksgiving.
The year of the first Thanksgiving
A. 1621
B. 1776
C. 1965
What is A. 1621?
This President declared two Thanksgivings in one year.
Who is James Madison?
Thanksgiving Day is also an annual Canadian holiday, held in this month.
What is October?
This President proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The world's largest pumpkin pie ever baked weighed how many pounds?
A. 20 pounds
B. 200 pounds
C. 2000 pounds
What is C. 2000 pounds?
How many turkeys are consumed every year at Thanksgiving?
A. 4,600
B. 46,000
C. 4.6 million
D. 46 million
What is D. 46 million?
This event early in the day is the second-oldest of its kind and features many performances as well as giant balloons of iconic characters.
What is the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
Sara Josepha Hale, who lobbied for Thanksgiving to become a national holiday, also wrote this famous children's song.
What is "Mary Had a Little Lamb?"
This president tried to move Thanksgiving to help boost the economy but later signed a bill making the celebration at the end of November officially.
Who is Franklin Roosevelt?
The name for the loose red skin attached to the underside of a turkey’s beak.
What is a wattle?
This service industry (not related to shopping) has one of their busiest days of the year on Black Friday.
Who are plumbers? (All those potato peels and food scraps clog drains and disposals!)