Turkeys
Male turkeys
What are toms?
President who officially declared Thanksgiving a national holiday.
Who is Abraham Lincoln? (1863)
Approximately 94% of American Thanksgiving meals include this tangy item.
What is cranberry sauce?
How do both Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and America's Thanksgiving Parade conclude
What is the arrival of Santa Claus?
In America’s Thanksgiving Parade this usually features Santa receiving the key to the city from the Mayor of Detroit. This is supposed to herald in the Christmas season, but as we all know it’s been creeping earlier and earlier each year.
Baby turkeys
What are Pults or turkeylings?
Meat the native American brought to the first Thanksgiving
What is venison?
Current name of oldest Thanksgiving Day Parade
What is 6ABC Dunkin' Donuts Thanksgiving Day Parade?
Philadelphia - It was started in 1920 and originally called the Gimbels Thanksgiving Day Parade until the Gimbels department stores closed down. WPVI a.k.a Channel 6 a.k.a abc6 as well as several companies have sponsored the parade since Gimbels went out of business.
In Canada, Thanksgiving is celebrated during this month.
What is October?
Second Monday of October
Name of the wobbly red piece of flesh on top of the beak of a turkey
What is a snood?
What are the two most popular pies baked at Thanksgiving?
What are pumpkin and apple?
First pumpkin pies were in the 1600
Year that both the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and America's Thanksgiving Parade
What is 1924?
America’s Thanksgiving Parade was inspired by Eaton’s Santa Claus Parade in Toronto, Ontario and the papier-mache heads that he saw on a trip to Europe. Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade was started by Louis Bamberger in Newark, New Jersey but was transferred to New York City where it is now held by Macy’s.
Black Friday is the busiest day of the year for this trade profession
Who are Plumbers?
Name of the skin that hangs from a turkey's neck.
What is the wattle?
Year the celebration that is most commonly considered to be the first Thanksgiving
What is 1621?
Food that was present at the first Thanksgiving that is rarely eatn at Thanksgiving now.
What is seafood?
Oldest continuously held holiday parade in the country, started in 1887
What is the Santa Clause Parade on Peoria, IL?
Held the day after Thanksgiving.
This state produces the most turkeys each year.
What is Minnesota?
Where did the Religious group, later known as the pilgrims, go to when they left England
What is Leiden, Holland?
What is the 1950's?
Specifically 1955 by Dorcas Reilly of the Campbell soup company
Thanksgiving Day Parade(s) cancelled in 2020
What is 6abc Dunkin' Donuts?
In 2020, the city of Philadelphia cancelled all public gatherings through January 2021, including the Thanksgiving Day Parade, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is the first cancellation in the parade's history.
President to first give a turkey a presidential pardon
Who is Ronald Reagan?
John F. Kennedy was the first president on record for unofficially sparing a Turkey in 1963. But it wasn’t until the Reagan administration in 1987 that a turkey was given an official presidential pardon as a joke. Despite it being a joke, the turkey was spared and put into a petting zoo. In 1989 George H. Bush made it an annual tradition and each president following him has carried on the tradition.