Turkeys
True or False. Snapping the wishbone tradition for good luck started 800 years ago.
False. (It started 2400 years ago)
The number of pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving feast.
What is 50?
The year of the First Thanksgiving.
What is 1621?
True or false. The first Thanksgiving was almost a fast instead of a feast.
True. The settlers planned to pray and fast to give thanks for a successful harvest. Then the Native Indians arrived with gifts and it became a feast.
Male turkeys are called Toms. Female turkeys are called this...
What are hens?
True or False. The pilgrims ate things like seal, swan. lobster and oysters on the first Thanksgiving.
What is true? (Also deer)
The number of pumpkin pies eaten on Thanksgiving.
What is 50 million?
The Native Indians taught the Pilgrims to do this
What is plant crops?
Why the Mayflower landed in Massachusetts instead of Virginia.
What is bad weather?
73% of Americans say this is the best part of hosting Thanksgiving dinner.
What are leftovers?
The Native Indians showed the Pilgrims how plant corn by adding this to the dirt.
What is fish?
A founding father who wanted the turkey to be the United States national bird.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The number of settlers the Mayflower brought to North America in 1620.
What is 102?
What is apple pie?
(The American Pie council says apple beats out pumpkin every year. Pumpkin pie comes in second place).
The most surprising food that was not served at the first Thanksgiving.
What is turkey?
The first year a President officially pardoned a turkey.
What is 1989? (George H.W. Bush)
Male turkeys make the gobble, gobble sound. Female turkey make this sound.
What is cackle or cluck?
This agreement, signed by all the Pilgrims, was the first governing document.
What is Mayflower Compact?
This Pawtuxet Indian served as interpreter and go-between for pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians.
Who is Squanto?
The 2 NFL teams who have played on Thanksgiving day since 1966.