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100
The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in this city.
What is Plymouth, Massachusetts?
100
What substance is believed to cause post-Thanksgiving meal drowsiness?
What is tryptophan?
100
Who invites herself over for Thanksgiving in this Charles Schulz classic?
Who is Peppermint Patty?
100
Benjamin Franklin wanted this to be the national bird of the United States.
What is the turkey?
100
The second Monday of October is known as what holiday north of the 45th parallel?
What is Canadian Thanksgiving?
200
This famous governor was the leader of the Pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving.
Who is Governor William Bradford?
200
How many million turkeys were consumed in the US on Thanksgiving day 2012: 12, 28, 46 or 64 million?
What is 46 million?
200
What is a word meaning “horn of plenty”?
What is cornucopia?
200
This annual Thanksgiving Day tradition began in the 1920’s in New York City.
What is the Macy's Day Parade?
200
The Friday and Monday following Thanksgiving are known as what?
What are Black Friday and Cyber Monday?
300
This item of cutlery was not present at the first Thanksgiving.
What is the fork?
300
Match these states with the Thanksgiving food(turkeys, sweet potatoes, pumpkins or cranberries) they produce more of than any other state in the US: Wisconsin, Illinois, North Carolina, Minnesota.
Minnesota = turkeys; Wisconsin – cranberries; Illinois = pumpkins; North Carolina = sweet potatoes
300
Match these percentages to the statements below: 17%, 46%, 56%, 75% 1. The % of cranberry consumers who reached for the canned stuff last year. 2. The % of people surveyed last year who admitted to trying to pass off a store-bought pie for homemade. 3. The % of drivers who will travel more than 100 miles on Thanksgiving.
1. 75% 2. 17% 3. 56%
300
In 1863 this President officially designated the last Thursday of November to be Thanksgiving day in the US.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
What national football team has played a game every Thanksgiving except during WWII when football was suspended?
Who are the Detroit Lions?
400
This tribe shared the first Thanksgiving with the pilgrims
Who are the Wampanoag?
400
Do Americans consume more sweet potatoes or yams at Thanksgiving?
Sweet potatoes: In fact, outside of international markets, all “yams” sold in the US are actually just a soft variety of sweet potato.
400
This was the last year that the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah was celebrated the same day as Thanksgiving.
What is 1888?
400
This president tried to move Thanksgiving up one week in order to boost the Christmas shopping season but was forced to change it back just 2 years later.
Who is President Franklin D. Roosevelt?
400
What is the trick to easily drawing a picture of a turkey?
What is tracing the outline of your hand?
500
This boat intended to make the journey to the new world with the Mayflower but sprang a leak not once, but twice, forcing it to abandon the trip.
What is the Speedwell?
500
Consumer demand for larger turkey breasts has resulted in what problem for domesticated turkeys?
What is inability to mate?
500
1-800-288-2255 will connect you with whom?
What is the Butterball help line?
500
President George H. W. Bush was the first president to do what on Thanksgiving?
What is pardon the turkey instead of eat it?
500
What does the nursery rhyme Mary Had a Little Lamb have to do with Thanksgiving?
It’s author, Sarah Josepha Hale, lobbied for 40 years to make Thanksgiving a national holiday, finally succeeding in 1863.
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