History of Thanksgiving
Notable Pilgrims
Indians
Turkey!
Pumpkin Pi
100
This is the name of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to the new world.
What is The Mayflower?
100
This ideological leader of Indian independence is often referred to as the Pilgrim of Peace.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
100
This Sioux Indian is most famous for leading the defeat of General Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
Who is Sitting Bull?
100
This largest city of Turkey is often mistaken as the capital, but is in fact not (Ankara is the capital).
What is Istanbul?
100
This is the greek letter that represents pi (must write answer).
What is "π"?
200
This was the name of the colony started by the Pilgrims, also the name of the Rock they landed on.
What is Plymouth?
200
In 1964, this African American leader of the Nation of Islam took a historic pilgrimage to Mecca.
Who is Malcolm X?
200
This director of The Sixth Sense grew up in Pennsylvania but born in India.
Who is M. Night Shyamalan?
200
Turkey is located in these two continenents.
What are Europe and Asia?
200
Pi is a mathematical constant that represents this ratio.
What is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter? (So, to get Pumpkin Pi, you just divide the circumference of a Jack-O-Lantern by its diameter ;).
300
This famous Native American assisted the Pilgrims after their first hard winter in the new world by teaching them to fish and harvest corn.
Who is Squanto?
300
Remembered as the Pilgrim Pope, this pontiff travelled to more places in the world and spoke to more people than any other pope in the history of the Roman Catholic Church.
Who is Pope John Paul II?
300
This American Indian is most well-known for accompanying Lewis & Clark on their expedition of the Western U.S.
Who is Sacajawea?
300
Turkey is bordered by this number of countries.
What is 8 (Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq and Syria)?
300
Pi is also known as this constant, named after the mathematician who first provided its approximate value.
What is Archimedes' constant?
400
The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in this year.
What is 1621?
400
This patriotic American song contains the line "land of the pilgrims' pride".
What is 'My country 'tis of thee'?
400
This singer of Indian origin was finalist in the sixth season of American Idol, gaining national attention for his poor singing and crazy hairstyles.
Who is Sanjaya Malakar?
400
In the 13th century, a Turkish principality evolved into this empire, eventually conquering the Byzantines by capturing the capital of Constantinople.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
400
This is pi to the 8th decimal place.
What is 3.14159265?
500
Thanksgiving is celebrated on this day in Canada.
What is the second Monday of October, or Columbus Day?
500
This famous Pilgrim had to battle 7 people in order to win the affection of his lady, Ramona Flowers.
Who is Scott Pilgrim?
500
In ancient Sanskrit literature, the Indian Ocean is known as this.
What is Ratnakara?
500
This is the official religion of Turkey.
Trick question - Turkey is a secular country.
500
In a classic Star Trek episode, this character foils an evil computer by commanding it to calculate the value of pi to its last digit).
Who is Spock?
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