Thanksgiving Foods
The most popular main course on Thanksgiving
What is turkey?
The sport Americans like to play and watch on Thanksgiving day.
What is football?
This orange fruit is commonly used as a symbol of Thanksgiving.
What is a pumpkin?
The name of the ship the Pilgrims boarded to start their journey to Plymouth, Massachusetts.
What is the Mayflower?
The type of food which was NOT served at the first Thanksgiving.
corn on the cob
pumpkin
seafood
What was corn on the cob?
The loose red skin attached to the underside of a turkey’s beak.
What is a wattle?
"What key has legs and can't open a door?"
A Turkey
The way people typically prepare potatoes for Thanksgiving dinner
What are mashed potatoes?
A special parade in US for Thanksgiving.
What is the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade?
The English separatists who came to the United States in 1620.
Who were the Pilgrims?
The Pilgrim Monument is located in this city and state.
What is Provincetown, Massachusetts?
This Native American was especially helpful to the Pilgrims.
Who was Squanto?
Turducken, or three-bird-roast, became popular in this US state.
What is Louisiana?
Why did they let the turkey join the band?
Because he had his own drumsticks
The type of apple traditionally used in apple pie.
What is Granny Smith apple?
The president that made Thanksgiving a permanent, national holiday.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
The indigenous people of North America who are a common symbol of Thanksgiving.
Who were the Native Americans or the Wampanoag tribe?
There were this number of passengers on the Mayflower.
What was 102 passengers?
The area the Pilgrims reached when they arrived in the USA is now this state.
What is Massachusetts?
These three vegetables are known as "the three sisters."
What are corn, squash and beans?
What happened to the turkey that got in a fight?
He got the stuffing knocked out of him!
The most popular meat alternative to turkey on Thanksgiving.
What is ham?
The oldest documented turkey trot still takes place every year in this city.
What is Buffalo, New York?
This can be most troublesome the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.
What is traffic?
The number of days of the Mayflower’s voyage.
What was 66 days?
The colony the Pilgrims started in America.
What is the Plymouth Colony?
The English settlers brought these to the new land infecting and ultimately causing many Native Americans' deaths.
What are diseases?
What do you call a running turkey?
Fast Food
The state which produces the most cranberries.
What is Wisconsin?
These two NFL teams have played a game on Thanksgiving Day since 1966.
Who are the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys?
The holiday the day after Thanksgiving and it is not Black Friday.
What is Native American Heritage Day?
The year of the first Thanksgiving.
What was 1621?
This event was celebrated by the Pilgrims and the Native Americans on Thanksgiving.
What is the harvest?
The name of the US President who declared two Thanksgivings in one year.
Who was James Madison?
What did the turkey say to the computer?
Google, google.
The Founding Father who proclaimed, “No citizen of the U.S. shall refrain from turkey on Thanksgiving Day."
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
The first documented turkey pardon was by this U.S. president.
Who was John F. Kennedy?
The annual Canadian Thanksgiving Day is held on this date.
What is the second Monday in October?
This was how many days the first Thanksgiving lasted.
What was 3 days?
The approximate number of colonists living in America in 1620. (1,500, 2,500, 3,500, or 4,500?)
What is approximately 2,500 according to the U.S. Census Bureau?
The speed that turkeys can run when scared. (15 mph, 20 mph, or 25 mph)
What is 20 MPH?
What kind of weather does a turkey like?
Fowl Weather