Jokes
Native New Yorker
1621
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
NYC Thanksgiving
100

What happened to the turkey that got into a fight?

He got the stuffing knocked out of him

100

The name of this stop on the Long Island Railroad means 'Boundary Fishing Lake' in Algonquian

What is Ronkonkoma?

100

Iconic three day feast between the Plymouth Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Tribe

What is Thanksgiving?

100

This kitty kat was the first character balloon in the 1927 Macy's Parade

What is Felix the Cat? Who is Felix the Cat?

100

This parade was started by first generation European immigrants that wanted to bring Thanksgiving festivities from their home countries 

What is the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?

200

Why did they let the Turkey join the band?

Because he had his own drumsticks

200

Before it became the Concrete Jungle, the Lenape people referred to this place as 'Island of Many Hills'

What is Manhattan?

200

This boat returned to England after dropping off a group of English settlers

What is the Mayflower?

200

This parade outshined this annual 'holiday'

What is Ragamuffin Day?

200

This side dish is the number #1 side dish for New Yorkers

What is Mac and Cheese?
300

This key has legs but cannot open a door

What is a Turkey?

300

This NY mountain range was named 'Eaters of Trees' by the Iroquois people

What are the Adirondacks?
300

This company was founded this year and quickly gained monopoly of trade and colonization in America and West Africa

What is the Dutch West Indian Company?

300

The first Macy's Parade had floats that detailed nursery rhymes, professional bands to entertain and also...

What are live animals?

300

What tradition did Mayor LaGuardia ban that took place on Thanksgiving Day?

What is Ragamuffin Day?

400

What do you call a running chicken?

Fast Food

400

The Lenape people named this Brooklyn neighborhood 'A Fenced Farm' before the Dutch did

What is Canarsie? 

400

Tamblot organized a revolt against the Catholic Religion in this Philippine island province 

What is Bohol?

400

In 1928, Macy's gave $100 to whomever can find deflated balloons after the balloons were released into the air in 'races' called...

What are balloon races?

400

What year did NY sanctioned the Thanksgiving holiday?

1830

500

What did the turkey say to the computer?

Google, Google

500

According to the Iroquois, this county is 'Over the Pine Plains' but really is in the Capitol District of the New York State

What is Schenectady?

500

This country had witch trials 70 years before Salem had theirs

What is Norway?

500

Before store employees and ancillary staff handled balloons, this animals were pulling them

What are horses?
500

Early NY Thanksgiving didn't have turkey but had this type of food instead

What is seafood?

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