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A kind of potatoes people usually make for Thanksgiving dinner

What is mashed potatoes or sweet potatoes?

100

A major shopping day after Thanksgiving

What is Black Friday?

100
Main meat served at Thanksgiving dinners

What is turkey?

100

The day and month we celebrate Thanksgiving

What is the 4th Thursday of November?

100

Popular green vegetable often made into a casserole on Thanksgiving

What are green beans?

200

The most popular dessert at Thanksgiving dinner.

What is pumpkin pie?

200

A popular sport that people watch or play on Thanksgiving

What is football?

200

Name of ship that traveled from England to America that we think of on Thanksgiving

What is the Mayflower?

200

President in 1989 that started the tradition of pardoning turkeys on Thanksgiving

Who is George H.W. Bush?

200

Name of where the pilgrims settled

What is Plymouth?

300

86 pounds

How much did the heaviest turkey weigh?

(This is according to the Guinness Book of World Records.)

300

The place of the famous Thanksgiving Day parade

What is New York City?

300

People who came to the North America continent in 1620

What are pilgrims?

300

Year of the first Thanksgiving

What is 1621?

300

Part of the turkey that two people can make a wish then pull it apart

What is a wishbone?

400

A "sauce" to put on top of a turkey

What is gravy?

400

A job people can volunteer for in the parade, specifically with the large balloons

What is a balloon handler or balloon pilot?

400

Group of people who helped the Englanders survive the first winter

What are Native Americans?

400

Meat eaten at the first Thanksgiving

What is duck, venison (deer), or cod fish?

400

Horn shaped container of fruits, flowers, or nuts often seen on dinner tables at Thanksgiving

What is a cornucopia?

500

A red fruit served at Thanksgiving dinner

What are cranberries?

500

A holiday classic that airs every year on tv


What is Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving?

500

President made Thanksgiving an official holiday in 1863

Who is President Abraham Lincoln?

500

Founding Father who wanted the turkey to be our national bird rather than the bald eagle

Who is Benjamin Franklin?

500

Holiday figure at the end of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade

Who is Santa Claus?

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