Food
Trivia #1
Trivia #2
Fun Facts #1
Fun Facts #2
100

Most of us eat turkey on Thanksgiving. But, how many eat turkey also as a Christmas meal?

50%

100

How do both Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and America’s Thanksgiving Parade conclude?

With the arrival of Santa Claus

100

The cranberry is the official fruit of what U.S. state?

Wisconsin 

100

The dangling skin under a turkey's neck is called?

Wattle

100

What is the most popular way to eat leftover turkey?

Sandwiches

200

What traditional eating utensil was not used at the first Thanksgiving?

Fork 

200

What percent of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving?

88%

200

What was the name of the ship that transported the first Pilgrims to America in 1620?

The Mayflower

200

Abraham Lincoln made Thanksgiving a national holiday. But, before he did, when was Thanksgiving celebrated?

Whenever the Governor of a State said so

200

How many calories are there in the average Thanksgiving dinner?

4,500 Calories 

300

In 1621, which of the following foods that we eat at Thanksgiving today, they did not serve?

Pumpkin Pie

300

Under which president did Thanksgiving become an annual holiday?

Abraham Lincoln

300

Turkeys can drown if they look up in the rain. True or False?

True 

300

The first department store to hold a Thanksgiving parade was...? 

Gimbel's in 1920 

300

The busiest travel day of the year is:

The Friday after Thanksgiving

400

What is the number one selling pie for Thanksgiving?

Apple Pie

400

What state raises the most turkeys?

Minnesota


(41 million turkeys)

400

Which two football teams took part in the first-ever NFL Thanksgiving Day game in 1934?

The Detroit Lions and the Chicago Bears.

400

A full-grown turkey has about how many feathers?

3,500

400

Where does the oldest Thanksgiving Parade in the U.S.A. take place?

Philadelphia

500

When should you cover the breast and the top of the drumsticks with aluminum foil?

When it is 2/3 cooked 

500

What food was present at the first Thanksgiving but is rarely eaten at Thanksgiving now?

Seafood

500

Thanksgiving in the United States is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November, but when is Canada’s Thanksgiving?

The Second Monday of October.

500

Which Indian tribe taught the Pilgrims how to cultivate the land and were invited to the Thanksgiving meal?

Wampanoag

500

Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday of November because...?

President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 and approved by Congress in 1941.

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