Tree Nuts
This nut is often ground into butter and spread on toast, and it definitely grows on trees, not “under the ground” like its name cousin.
What is an almond?
Its cousin is the peanut.
Fill in the blank: Thanksgiving is normally celebrated on the _______ Thursday of every November.
What is the fourth Thursday.
This famous long-distance sled dog race runs nearly 1,000 miles across Alaska each March, commemorating a 1925 serum run to Nome.
What is the Iditarod
In 1911, this now-world-famous painting was stolen from the Louvre by an Italian handyman, only adding to its legend.
What is the Mona Lisa?
In 1969, this American astronaut flew on Apollo 11 and stayed in orbit around the Moon while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the surface.
ho is Michael Collins?
Famous in Thanksgiving pies, this sweet, ridged nut comes from a tree native to the American South.
What is pecan?
Who sponsors the Thanksgiving Parade?
What is Macy's.
At 20,310 feet, this peak in the Alaska Range is the highest mountain in North America, known today by its Indigenous name.
What is Denali? (Mt McKinley also counts)
A 1978 robbery of a Lufthansa cargo terminal at JFK Airport—netting millions in cash and jewelry and tied to New York organized crime—was later dramatized in this 1990 Martin Scorsese film.
What is Goodfellas?
This Portuguese explorer’s expedition was the first to circumnavigate the globe, though he himself was killed in the Philippines in 1521.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This nut from Hawaii is creamy, round, and often dipped in chocolate or baked into white-chocolate cookies.
What is a macadamia nut?
In 1863, during the Civil War, this U.S. president proclaimed a national day of “Thanksgiving and praise,” helping cement the holiday.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
In 1867, the United States bought the territory that became Alaska from this country for $7.2 million, a deal critics mocked as “Seward’s Folly.”
Dubbed “the heist of the century,” thieves tunneled into the vault at the Antwerp World Diamond Centre in 2003, bypassing multiple security systems to steal jewels valued at over $100 million in this European country.
What is Belgium?
A Venetian merchant and traveler, he journeyed along the Silk Road in the 13th century to the court of Kublai Khan and later wrote a book that inspired generations of European explorers.
Hint: This book was written by his jail cellmate and many parts have later come into question.
Who is Marco Polo?
Technically a seed from a desert tree and could be described as "uniquely colored."
What is a pistachio?
Members of this Indigenous nation shared the 1621 harvest feast with the Pilgrims in Plymouth, an event later linked to the Thanksgiving story.
Who are the Wampanoag?
All teams submit an answer: Covering about 663,000 square miles, this U.S. state is so large that, if it were its own country, it would rank around this position in the world by total area — just behind Iran and ahead of countries like Libya and Peru.
Rules: Closest wins.
18th place.
In 2016, armed robbers posing as police tied up this reality TV star in a Paris residence during Fashion Week, stealing jewelry worth around $9–10 million and sparking global headlines.
Who is Kim Kardashian?
This Anglo-Irish explorer is famous for his ill-fated Antarctic Endurance expedition (1914–1917), during which his ship was crushed by pack ice—but he still managed to bring his entire crew home alive.
Hint: There is a book called Endurance based on him and this journey.
Who is Ernest Shackleton?
This curved “nut” actually grows at the end of a tropical “apple” on a tree, and its shell contains toxic oils, so it must be roasted before eating.
What is a cashew?
Every team submits an answer: According to turkey industry estimates, Americans eat about this many turkeys on Thanksgiving Day alone each year in the United States. We’re looking for the closest tens-of-millions figure
Rules: Price is right style; if you go over you lose.
~46M Turkeys
Because the Aleutian Islands cross the 180th meridian into the Eastern Hemisphere, Alaska holds this unusual double distinction among all U.S. states.
What is being both the westernmost and the easternmost US state?
In 1971, a man using this alias hijacked a Northwest Orient flight from Portland to Seattle, extorted $200,000 in cash, then parachuted out of the plane over the Pacific Northwest and vanished, becoming one of the most famous unsolved cases in FBI history.
Who is D. B. Cooper?
Around the year 1000, this Norse explorer reached North America—landing in what’s now Newfoundland—about 500 years before Columbus.
Who is Leif Erikson?