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This 1966 animated special features a boy waiting in a pumpkin patch for a mythical figure.
What is It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown?
What bird is Benjamin Franklin said to have preferred over the bald eagle as the U.S. national symbol?
What is the turkey?
Which U.S. city is home to the oldest Thanksgiving Day parade (starting in 1920)?
What is Philadelphia?
This root vegetable is often served mashed on Thanksgiving, though it was not present at the first feast.
What are potatoes?
Which Native American tribe is known to have shared the first Thanksgiving meal with the Pilgrims?
Who are the Wampanoag?
In the 1947 film Miracle on 34th Street, what event marks the beginning of the story?
What is the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade?
Halloween is the second-largest commercial holiday in the U.S. What’s the first?
What is Christmas?
In what country is Thanksgiving celebrated on the second Monday in October?
What is Canada?
Before pumpkins, early jack-o’-lanterns in Ireland were made from which vegetable?
What are turnips?
The practice of dressing in costumes on Halloween was originally meant to do what?
What is to disguise oneself from wandering spirits?
Which Hitchcock film famously featured a scene set during a Halloween party?
What is To Catch a Thief? (or Suspicion, depending on your direction)
The term “cornucopia,” associated with Thanksgiving, comes from which ancient mythology?
What is Greek mythology?
What country celebrates Halloween by honoring deceased ancestors and visiting cemeteries, known as Día de los Muertos?
What is Mexico?
This grain, introduced by Indigenous peoples, was crucial to early colonial survival and is now a Thanksgiving staple
What is corn (maize)?
What was the name of the Pilgrim leader at the time of the first Thanksgiving?
Who is William Bradford?
What year did CBS first broadcast the Macy’s parade on national TV?
What is 1952?
Which region of the U.S. is most associated with the dish “oyster dressing” at Thanksgiving?
What is the South or coastal areas?
In 1953, which food company accidentally created the first frozen TV dinner as a result of Thanksgiving surplus?
What is Swanson?
What was likely the main protein served at the first Thanksgiving — besides turkey?
What is venison (deer)?
What significant global event led President Roosevelt to move Thanksgiving one week earlier in 1939?
What is the Great Depression (to boost holiday shopping)?
This 1970s sitcom featured a famously disastrous Thanksgiving episode involving a live turkey drop.
What is WKRP in Cincinnati?
Which 20th-century American president declared: “Thanksgiving is a day of general Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the blessings of the year”?
Who is George Washington?
In what U.S. state is it illegal to dress up as a nun or priest for Halloween?
What is Alabama?
What is the name of the traditional bread-based dish often served inside or alongside the turkey?
What is stuffing or dressing?
The Catholic observance that influenced Halloween is known as what?
What is All Hallows' Eve?