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100

This popular dessert is connected with Thanksgiving and the autumn season.

What is pumpkin pie?

100

A Turkey Trot is usually this long.

What is a 5k?

100

There are this many quarters in a standard football game.

What is four?

100

Only ____ turkeys gobble.

What are male?

100

This popular Thanksgiving vegetable was the first to be grown in space.

What is the potato?

200

These four ingredients go into making a basic pie crust.

What are flour, salt, water and butter/shortening?

200

This U.S. President was the first to officially pardon a turkey.

Who is George H.W. Bush?

200

A turkey should be cooked to this temperature before it is safe for eating.

What is 165 degrees fahrenheit? 

200

This is another name for a male turkey.

What is a tom?

200

This U.S. Founding Father famously referred to turkeys as "a bird of courage".

Who is Benjamin Franklin?

300

This state produces the most cranberries.

What/Where is Wisconsin?

300

This household hazard triples on Thanksgiving.

What are fires?

300

The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade route is this long. 

What is 2.5 miles?

300

The red flesh under a turkey's beak is called this.

What is a wattle?

300

This comedian performed "The Thanksgiving Song" on Saturday Night Live in 1992.

Who is Adam Sandler?

400

Americans (as a whole) spend this amount annually on pies.

What is $700 million?

400

Canada celebrates Thanksgiving on this day.

What/when is the second Monday in October?

400

Approximately this many cranberries are in one pound.

What is 440?

400

An unopened whole turkey can be frozen for this long.

What is two years?

400

The Goddess of Harvest

Who is Ceres?
500

Americans consume approximately this amount of pumpkin pies on Thanksgiving Day.

What is 50 million?

500

This ancient civilization began the tradition of "breaking the wishbone".

Who are the Romans?

500

The Butterball Turkey Talk-Line fields this many callers during the holiday season.

What is 100,000?

500

Americans consume this many turkeys at Thanksgiving.

What is 46 million?

500

Snoopy made his first appearance in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in this year.

When is 1968?

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