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100

This ship carried the Pilgrims to North America.

What is the Mayflower?

100

The most popular meat served on Thanksgiving is this bird.

What is turkey?

100

This is the term for the noise a male turkey makes.

What is a gobble?

100

The wobbly red piece of flesh on top of the beak of a turkey.

What is a snood?

200

What meat did the native Americans bring to the first Thanksgiving?

Deer

200

This side dish, made from bread cubes, is a Thanksgiving staple.

What is stuffing?

200

This part of the turkey is saved and snapped by two people with the hope of having a wish granted.

What is the wishbone?

200

Turkey chicks are called this.

What is Pults or turkeylings?

300

This President is credited with officially declaring Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863.

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

300

The most popular pie flavor associated with Thanksgiving is this.

What is pumpkin pie?

300

The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and America’s Thanksgiving Parade started in this decade

What is the 1920’s?

300

This Sesame Streets Character's costume was made out of dyed turkey feathers.

Who is big bird?

400

The amount of days that the first Thanksgiving lasted.

3 days

400

The most popular dish made with Thanksgiving leftovers in the United States  

Turkey Sandwich

400

In the Peanuts holiday special, Snoopy wears a chef's hat and serves this to Charlie Brown and his friends.

What is a Thanksgiving dinner?

400

This president was the first to give a turkey a presidential pardon.

Whos is Ronald Reagan?


500

This President moved Thanksgiving up one week in 1939 to extend the Christmas shopping season.

Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?

500

The act of soaking a turkey in a saltwater solution to add flavor and moisture is called this.

What is brining?

500

This popular Thanksgiving vegetable was the first to be grown in space in 1995.

What is the potato?

500

What state raises the most turkeys?

Minnesota

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