History Readin'
The name of the ship that brought the pilgrims over to the United States.
What is the Mayflower?
This Peanuts character holds the record for the most balloon appearances in parade history.
Who is Snoopy?
The term for a casual Thanksgiving celebration with friends, a tradition that became popular around 2007.
What is Friendsgiving?
The main character and his friends celebrate Thanksgiving with a feast of toast, pretzel sticks, popcorn, and jelly beans in this 1973 animated special.
What is A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving?
This forked turkey bone is traditionally snapped by two people for good luck after Thanksgiving dinner.
What is the wishbone?
The location where Europeans first landed in The United States.
Where is Plymouth, Massachusetts?
Since the very first parade, this jolly figure has always appeared on the final float to officially kick off the holiday shopping season.
Who is Santa Claus?
This tart red fruit is traditionally boiled down with sugar to make a jiggly side dish.
What is a cranberry?
Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan fall in love over email during a picturesque autumn in New York City in this 1998 romantic comedy.
What is You’ve Got Mail?
True or false. A baby turkey is called a chick.
False. It's called a poult.
DAILY DOUBLE
The year of the first thanksgiving.
This major television network has been the official broadcaster of the parade since 1939.
What is NBC?
In 1955, home economist Dorcas Reilly created the classic green bean casserole recipe using French's crispy fried onions and cream of mushroom soup from this company.
What is Campbell's?
Meg Ryan strolls through Central Park amid peak autumn foliage in When Harry Met Sally with this actor, who is also known for voicing Mike Wazowski in Monsters Inc.
Who is Billy Crystal?
This state produces the most turkeys in the United States, also known at the "North Star State."
What is Minnesota?
This president issued a proclamation in October 1863 establishing Thanksgiving as an annual national holiday.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Towering at 80 feet high in 1980, a balloon of this DC Comics superhero holds the record as the tallest in parade history.
Who is Superman?
Often blamed for post-dinner drowsiness, this essential amino acid found in turkey is actually present in similar amounts in chicken and beef.
What is tryptophan?
DAILY DOUBLE
Owen Wilson voices a time-traveling turkey trying to take his species off the holiday menu in this 2013 animated Thanksgiving comedy.
What you call a male turkey.
What is a tom?
Known as the "Mother of Thanksgiving," this magazine editor campaigned for decades to make Thanksgiving a national holiday—and also wrote "Mary Had a Little Lamb."
Who is Sarah Josepha Hale?
Debuting in 1927, this black-and-white cartoon feline was the first giant character balloon to appear in the parade.
Who is Felix the Cat?
Created as a culinary mashup, this dish consists of a deboned chicken stuffed inside a deboned duck, which is then stuffed inside a deboned turkey.
What is a turducken?
Jodie Foster directed this 1995 Thanksgiving comedy-drama starring Holly Hunter and Robert Downey Jr. as siblings enduring a chaotic family reunion in Baltimore.
What is Home for the Holidays?
In 1989, this president officially instituted the annual White House Thanksgiving tradition of granting a formal pardon to a turkey.
Who is George H.W. Bush?