The Macy's
Thanksgiving Parade
Thanksgiving Parade
The first Macy's Thanksgiving Parade was held in this year, the same year it was declared that all Native Americans born in the United States were US citizens.
What is 1924?
This is the official title given to the son of the President of the United States.
What is FSOTUS (First Son of the United States)?
45% of Black Friday shoppers will only wait in a line of this many minutes or less.
What is 30 minutes?
This "Tom," with a longer version of the name, is credited with the invention of several devices, including the light bulb, phonograph, and key elements of motion-picture equipment.
Who is Thomas Edison?
About 46 million of these are eaten at Thanksgiving dinner by about 88% of Americans.
What are turkeys?
The parade is held in this NYC borough, famous for being the home of the Empire State Building.
What is Manhattan?
This famous family has a habit of giving their daughters names that begin with the letter "K."
Who are the Kardashians? (Kourtney, Kim, Khloe, Kendall, and Kylie)
True or False? According to a study done by a marketing research firm, furniture and jewelry are discounted the least of any category on Black Friday.
What is True? (8% off and 4% off)
This football "Tom" spent his first 20 seasons with the New England Patriots as a quarterback before retiring and becoming a sportscaster.
Who is Tom Brady?
This President declared Thanksgiving a national holiday on the last Thursday in November in 1863, and stated it would be celebrated on the last Thursday of that month.
Who was President Abraham Lincoln?
The number of years the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade operated for before the famous inflatable balloon characters were introduced.
What is 3 years?
These two families were involved in one of the most famous feuds in 1850s America in the Virginia-Kentucky area.
Who were the Hatfields and the McCoys?
The average Black Friday shopper spends this much on Black Friday. (Within $20)
What is $430?
This "Tom" is dating a famous actress, and is himself active in Hollywood, being the most recent Spiderman in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and having leading roles in movies like Captain America: Civil War (2016), Avengers: Endgame (2019), and Uncharted (2022).
Who is Tom Holland?
President Harry Truman was the first president to officially pardon a turkey in 1947, but turkey pardoning did not become an officially sanctioned White House event until this President.
Who is George H.W. Bush?
The inflatable balloon characters in the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade replaced these, which apparently frightened the children attending the parade.
What are live animals from the Central Park Zoo?
Queen Elizabeth II confirmed the British Royal Family's surname to be Mountbatten-Windsor in this year, after her marriage to Prince Phillip.
What is 1960?
This city's police force started using the term "Black Friday" to describe the busy shopping day that was the Friday after Thanksgiving.
What is Philadelphia?
This "Tom's" surname sounds like the name for the area on the side of a horse between the ribs and the hip, and he has starred in or lent his voice to movies such as Toy Story, You've Got Mail, and Saving Private Ryan.
Who is Tom Hanks?
The Delaware, Miami, Shawnee, and Seneca people are just some of the Native American tribes who migrated in and out of this river valley region.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
The tallest balloon ever used in the parade was this many feet tall. (Within 5 feet)
Extra 100 points: What was the character the balloon portrayed?
What is 80 feet?
Extra: Who is Superman?
This old money American family gained prominence during the late 1820s, with the patriarch, Cornelius, and his son building the family's empire through a monopoly on steamship and railroad transport.
Who are the Vanderbilts?
This decade was when "Black Friday" was originally coined in association with workers calling off work the day after Thanksgiving in order to get a 4-day weekend.
What is the 1950s?
This "Tom" from England is an actor, and he made his screen debut in The Borrowers (1997) before being cast in his most famous role in the Harry Potter movies from 2001-2011.
Who is Tom Felton?
This children's cartoon is about a boy and his dog cooking a Thanksgiving meal for his friends after they invited themselves over for a Thanksgiving celebration.
What is A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving?