Foods
The most popular main course on Thanksgiving
What is turkey?
This company's "Turkey Talk Line" answer about 100,000 turkey calls in November and December.
What is Butterball?
The name of the ship the Pilgrims boarded to start their journey to Plymouth, Massachusetts
What is the Mayflower?
No Thanksgiving football games were played during 1941 to 1944 because of this.
What is World War II?
This is the only kind of turkey that can gobble.
What are male turkeys?
The most popular alternative to turkey on Thanksgiving?
What is ham?
The day and month of the year on which we traditionally celebrate Thanksgiving.
What is the fourth Thursday of November?
He was the first president to "pardon" a turkey.
Who is John F Kennedy?
This NFL football Franchise has the most Thanksgiving games played.
Who are the Detroit Lions (with 81)?
This department store has sponsored the annual Thanksgiving Day Parade for almost a century.
What is Macy's?
The most popular Thanksgiving dessert.
What is Pumpkin Pie?
A race many people run on Thanksgiving morning.
What is a turkey trot?
This First Nation lived on the land the Pilgrims reached when they first landed at Plymouth.
Who are the Wampanoag?
In 1989, John Madden of CBS awarded the first "Turkey Leg Award", for the game's most valuable player to this player on the Eagles.
Who is Reggie White?
Both Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and Reston's Thanksgiving Parade end with this.
What is the arrival of Santa Claus?
The red fruit that is often served alongside the turkey for Thanksgiving dinner.
What are cranberries?
How many turkeys are consumed every year at Thanksgiving?
46,000
4.6 million
46 million
460 million
What is 46 million?
This disease brought by the Pilgrims devastated the population of native people in Massachussetts.
What is smallpox?
Name one team that played the first NFL Thanksgiving in 1920.
Who are the Canton Bulldogs or the Akron Pros?
This state raises the most wild turkeys.
What is Minnesota?
This large root vegetable belongs to the morning glory family, and is used in many Thanksgiving foods.
What are sweet potatoes?
The day after Thanksgiving when there are big sales and many people go shopping.
What is Black Friday?
Instead of the eagle, this historic person wanted the wild turkey to be the symbol of the U.S.A.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Name 1 of 3 active NFL teams that have played on Thanksgiving and never won.
Who are:
Tampa (0-1)
Cleveland Browns (0-3)
Cincinnati Bengals (0-1)
Green Bean casserole was invented by this soup company.
What is Campbell's Soup?
The number of calories on average that are consumed, per person, at Thanksgiving dinner (within 500 calories).
What is 4,500 calories?
The conical-shaped basket that is generally filled with fruits and vegetables
What is a cornucopia?
What president proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The only active NFL franchise to have never played on Thanksgiving.
Who are the Jacksonville Jaguars?
The loose red skin attached to the underside of a turkey’s beak.
What is the wattle?