All About the Food
True or False: Pumpkins are vegetables.
What is false? (They are technically fruits.)
This famous ship carried the pilgrims across the pacific to the beaches of the new world.
What is the Mayflower?
Female turkeys are called hens while male turkeys are called this.
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade has taken place in this city every year.
What is New York City?
True or False: Thanksgiving is the busiest travel period of the year.
What is false? (The busiest travel period is actually the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day, with 90 to 100 million Americans traveling.)
Green Bean Casserole was invented by this well known soup company.
What is Campbell's Soup? (They sell nearly $50M worth of cream of mushroom every Thanksgiving)
The Pilgrims established their first permanent settlement in this location.
What is Plymouth, Massachusetts?
This amino acid found in turkey meat can be to blame for a post meal nap.
What is Tryptophan?
A float featuring this holiday figure ends the parade every year.
Who is Santa Claus?
These two NFL teams have each played every Thanksgiving day since 1966
Who are the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys
This fruit, once called "Star Berries" by Native Americans, is still present in our Thanksgiving dinners today.
What are Cranberries?
On October 3rd 1863 this famous president, named after a popular figure in the Bible, made Thanksgiving a national holiday.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Wild turkeys typically sleep in this odd place.
What is up in a tree?
A giant balloon of this cartoon dog has appeared in the parade more times than any other character. (6 times)
Who is Snoopy?
This U.S. state consumes the most turkey every Thanksgiving.
What is California?
This southern state, nicknamed for a different crop, produces more sweet potatoes than any other state.
What is Georgia? (The peach state)
Upon the Pilgrims early arrival in MA, this Native American is well known for helping the Pilgrims communicate with the Native American tribes
Who is Squanto
A turkey has this many stomachs to help with digestion
What is two?
The first Macy's parade took place in this decade to celebrate their opening of their self proclaimed "worlds largest store".
What is the 1920's? (The first Macy's parade was a Christmas parade in 1924 to celebrate their new 1.25M square foot store).
Black Friday is the biggest day of the year for this trade profession.
What is plumbers?
This food group was eaten at the first Thanksgiving but is uncommon now.
What is seafood? (Lobster, oysters, clams, eels, and other seafoods are said to have been eaten at the first Thanksgiving)
Of America's population of 335 million, roughly this many can trace their heritage back to the Mayflower. (answer should be in 5 million increments)
What is 35 million?
This cold, northern state produces the most turkeys every year.
What is Minnesota?
The distance of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. (0.5 mile increments)
What is 2.5 miles?
In November of 1926, this "cool" president was given a present of a live raccoon to prepare and eat for Thanksgiving dinner.
Who is Calvin "Cool"-idge? (Instead of eating it, he adopted it and named it Rebecca!)