The 1st Thanksgiving
The year that the first Thanksgiving was celebrated?
What is 1621?
Number of Pilgrim women at the first Thanksgiving? (0, 5, 8, 12)
Number of turkeys sold in the U.S. for Thanksgiving. (50M, 100M, 160M, 280M)
What is 280M?
What turkey chicks are called.
What are poults or turkeylings?
The most often asked question on the Butterball Turkey Hotline each year.
What is "How do I thaw a turkey?"
The first year of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. (1892, 1906, 1924, 1932)
What is 1924?
Indigenous Indians invited to join the feast. (Mohegans, Wampanoag, Narragansett)
Who are the Wampanoags?
This was not served at the first Thanksgiving meal. (lobster, turkey, venison, duck)
What is turkey?
This U.S. state is the largest consumer of turkey. (hint: W of Mississippi)
What is California?
A turkey’s gender can be determined by this.
What is its droppings?
Avg # of calories consumed per person at Thanksgiving dinner. (2800, 3500, 4500, 6000)
What is 4,500?
The Parade was cancelled 1942-44 for this reason. (helium shortage, funds diverted to war effort, not enough policemen, deemed too frivolous when men were dying)
What is a helium shortage?
The first Thanksgiving celebration lasted this many days.
What is 3 days?
This NFL football team has never played on Thanksgiving Day.
Jacksonville Jaguars
Thanksgiving is also celebrated in this country on the second Monday in October.
What is Canada?
Turkeys can run 25 mph and fly as fast as this. (30, 40, 50, 55 mph)
What is 55 miles per hour?
Most popular pie for Thanksgiving in the U.S.
What is apple pie?
The first year the Parade had giant balloons. (1928, 1935, 1950, 1962)
What is 1928?
% of Pilgrams that died from malnutrition, disease or exposure the 1st winter. (25%, 30%, 50%, 68%)
What is 50%?
This NFL team has played the most Thanksgiving Day games.
Black Friday is the busiest day of the year for this. (restaurants, plumbers, theatres, tree sales)
What is plumbers?
State that raises the most turkeys. (hint: in the midwest)
In 1955, the green bean casserole was created by this famous U.S. company.
What is the Campbell Soup Company?
Average # of people who attend the Parade. (1M, 1.5M, 2M, 3.5M)
Protestant Separatists were on the Mayflower, calling themselves: Saints, Wanderers, Shakers, Dissenters
Who are the Saints?
1962, in the “Thanksgiving Day Massacre", Detroit sacked this team's QB 11 times.
This % of Americans eat turkey at Thanksgiving. (88%, 50%, 75%, 60%)
What is 88%?
A mature turkey has this many feathers. (600, 1000, 1750, 3500)
What is 3,500?
Sarah Josepha Hale persuaded the President to declare Thanksgiving a holiday and wrote this popular nursery rhyme.
What is Mary Had a Little Lamb?
This sitcom had an episode on the challenges of being a balloon-holder during heavy winds.
What is Seinfeld? (Elaine's boss, Mr. Pitt!)
The Pilgrims landed way off course due to the terrible storms. They were supposed to land here.
Where is Chesapeake Bay near Maryland/Virginia?
President that declared Thanksgiving a national holiday.
Abraham Lincoln in 1863.
What happens in Plymouth, MA every Thanksgiving? (Day of mourning, recreation of dinner, re-staging of Mayflower arrival, 10K turkey trot)
What is a day of mourning for native Americans?
The best place to put the meat thermometer in the turkey.
What is the thigh?
Country/culture that produced the idea of the cornucopia, the horn of plenty.
Greece / Greek culture
The tallest balloon to appear in the Parade is 80' H and represents this character.
Who is Superman?