The first Thanksgiving
The year when the first Thanksgiving took place.
What is 1621?
Name 5 traditional foods served at Thanksgiving.
What are: turkey, mashed potatoes, corn, waldorf salad, pumpkin pie, apple pie, cranberries/cranberry sauce.
The names of the three ships brining pilgrims to America.
What are the Pinta, the Maria and the Mayflower?
The native animal that is associated with giving thanks.
What is the turkey?
What a female turkey is called.
What is a hen?
The number of days the first Thanksgiving lasted.
The word for the day after Thanksgiving.
What is Black Friday?
The number of pilgrims who traveled to America in the mayflower.
How many are 102 men women and children?
The ways the native people helped the Pilgrims.
What was teaching them to plant crops, kill wild animals and survive the winter?
What a male turkey is called.
What is a tom or a gobbler?
The president who made Thanksgiving an annual holiday.
Who is President Abraham Lincoln?
The major sport event that is televised on Thanksgiving day.
The Greek goddess of the havest.
Who is Demeter?
The three words used in the Declaration of Independence by the founders of the United States to reference native people.
What were "merciless savage Indians"?
What a baby turkey is called.
What is a poult or a chick?
The name of the most famous Thanksgiving Day parade.
What is the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
The month in which Thanksgiving is celebrated in Canada.
What is October?
The weight in pounds of the heaviest turkey on record.
What is 86 pounds?
The celebration for Native people on Black Friday.
What is Native American Heritage Day?
The speed in miles per hour at which wild turkeys can run.
What is 25 miles per hour?
The reason why there were so few women at the first Thanksgiving.
What is ...because they had died! (It is very tough being a pilgrim.)
What is the average number of calories consumed at Thanksgiving dinner the United States.
What is 4,500!! (Holy cow! That's usually enough food for 2 1/4 days!)
The name of a group of domesticated turkeys.
What is a gang of turkeys?
The name of the specific tribe that helped the pilgrims.
Who are the Wampanoag?
The reason why male turkeys are called gobblers.
What is the gobble sound they make to attract the female turkeys, the hens.