History
This was the year the first Thanksgiving was celebrated.
What is 1621?
This orange vegetable is the base of a pie often spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves for Thanksgiving dessert.
What is pumpkin?
In a quirky White House tradition, the president does this to at least one turkey each year, sparing it from the dinner table.
What is pardon it?
Before character balloons, the early Macy’s parade featured live animals borrowed from this Zoo.
What is the Central Park Zoo?
This long-running cartoon family famously celebrated Thanksgiving in an episode where Bart accidentally destroys a float in the Macy’s parade.
What is The Simpsons?
This US president declared Thanksgiving a national holiday.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Often baked in a flaky crust, this nut-based pie is especially popular in the American South during Thanksgiving.
What is pecan pie?
This post-Thanksgiving shopping day became widely known in the 1980s for drawing massive crowds and retail sales.
What is Black Friday?
What is NASA?
This animated Peanuts special from 1973 features Snoopy preparing a meal of toast, popcorn, and jelly beans.
What is A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving?
This city’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, first held in 1924, is now one of the most famous in the world.
What is the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade?
This herb—common in stuffing—was associated with healing in ancient cultures, making its name fitting when paired with “thyme” and “rosemary.”
What is sage?
This is the name of the horn-shaped basket, filled with fruits and vegetables, that is a symbol of Thanksgiving.
What is a cornucopia?
This is the average cost to create a balloon figure for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
What is $200,000?
This iconic sitcom featured a famous episode where Joey puts on maternity pants—technically Phoebe’s—so he can eat more turkey.
What is Friends?
Before it became associated with turkey, early Thanksgivings among colonists often featured this seafood, abundant in New England.
What is cod?
Though often called “yams” on Thanksgiving tables, nearly all U.S. grocery-store varieties are actually this type of tuber, native to the Americas.
What is a sweet potato?
This tradition of breaking a small bird bone to make a wish dates back to the ancient Etruscans.
What is the wishbone?
The term “balloon handlers”—the people guiding giant balloons—was popularized in this decade.
What is the 1930's?
This 1987 comedy film follows two mismatched travelers played by Steve Martin and John Candy as they struggle to get home in time for Thanksgiving.
What is Planes, Trains, and Automobiles?
This was the name of the Native American who served as an interpreter for the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag.
Who was Squanto?
This molasses-rich New England pie, thickened with breadcrumbs or crackers, was so common on 1800s Thanksgiving tables that it earned the nickname “the poor man’s pumpkin pie.”
What is shoofly pie?
Some families take part in this Thanksgiving morning activity that combines charity and exercise.
What is a Turkey Trot?
This floppy-eared cartoon dog holds the record for the most parade appearances as a balloon character.
Who is Snoopy?
In a memorable Thanksgiving scene from this 1990s sitcom, a giant mechanical balloon of Underdog gets loose during the parade, causing chaos throughout Manhattan.
What is Seinfeld?