Thanksgiving Foods
The most popular main course on Thanksgiving
What is turkey?
This sport is played on TV and in front yards across the land on Thanksgiving Day.
What is football?
The orange vegetable commonly used as a symbol of Thanksgiving.
What is pumpkin?
The name of the ship the Separatists sailed to Massachusetts.
What is the Mayflower?
The way Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade concludes.
What is the arrival of Santa Claus?
No Thanksgiving football games were played during 1941 to 1944 because of this.
What is WWII?
Americans say this is the best part of the Thanksgiving meal.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! What are leftovers?
A race many people run on Thanksgiving morning.
What is a turkey trot?
The English separatists who came to the United States in 1620.
Who were Pilgrims?
The reason the separatists felt they had to leave England.
What is religious persecution?
This Sesame Street character is made of turkey feathers.
Who is Big Bird?
Big Bird's feathers are white turkey feathers, dyed yellow. There are approximately 4,000 feathers on the puppet.
The busiest day of the year for plumbers.
What is Black Friday?
This side dish was invented by Campbells to show Americans how to use cream of mushroom soup.
What is Green Bean Casserole?
The day after Thanksgiving when there are big sales and many people go shopping
What is Black Friday?
Indigenous people of North America.
Who are Native Americans?
or
Who are the Wampanoag tribe?
The name of the colony where the first Thanksgiving was held.
What is Plymouth?
A Native American that could speak English and was especially helpful to the English.
Who was Squanto?
The Pilgrim's religion.
What is Puritan?
The Indians taught the settlers how to plant this and it remains a popular Thanksgiving food.
What is corn?
The month and day that the US celebrates Thanksgiving.
What is the fourth Thursday in November?
A large, native bird to North America that is large enough to feed a family.
What is a turkey?
This product owes its existence to Thanksgiving.
Cranberry Sauce
T.V. Dinner
Recliner
Butter
What is a T.V. Dinner?
The founding father that thought the turkey should be the national bird instead of the eagle.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The reason the first Pilgrim colony almost failed.
What is no incentive to work?
If a cranberry does this, it is ripe.
What is bounce? OR What is float?
This company has a "Turkey Talk Lune and answers about 100,000 calls in November and December.
Who is Butterball?
A type of vegetable people bunch together and use for decoration.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! What is Indian Corn?
The first Thanksgiving celebrated this.
What is the harvest?
The loose red skin attached to the underside of a turkey's beak.
What is a wattle?
The reason the Wampanoag tribe made an alliance with the Pilgrims and shared a meal together.
What is to obtain the protection and help of the Pilgrims in fighting off enemies?
The number of calories that are consumed, per person, at Thanksgiving dinner.
What is 3,000-4,500?
This famous Christmas song was originally written for Thanksgiving.
What is Jingle Bells?
The conical-shaped basket that is generally filled with fruits and vegetables.
What is a cornucopia?
What year was the first Thanksgiving celebrated?
1620
1621
1622
What is 1621?
The number of turkeys consumed each year on Thanksgiving.
What is 46 million?
The Plymouth Colony leader that said, "He who will not work shall not eat."
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Who is John Smith?