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100

DAILY DOUBLE The most popular main course on Thanksgiving

WHAT IS turkey?

100

 Americans like to play and watch this sport Thanksgiving day.

What is football?

100

This orange vegetable is commonly used as a symbol of Thanksgiving

What is pumpkin?

100

This President refused to delare Thanksgiving a holiday.

Thomas Jefferson?Presidents originally had to declare Thanksgiving a holiday every year up until Lincoln made it a national holiday.The only president who did not was Thomas Jefferson.He refused to recognize the event since he believed in separation of church & state.Since Thanksgiving involved prayer, he thought it would violate the 1st Amendment.Also,he thought it should be a state holiday not a federal one.

100

DAILY DOUBLE These are typically the biggest safety hazards on Thanksgiving.

What are fires?

100

This  key has legs and can't open a door.   HINT:  think Thanksgiving !!!!

What is A Turkey?

200

This is the way people typically prepare potatoes for Thanksgiving dinner

What is to mash them? 

200

DAILY DOUBLE This is a special parade in US for Thanksgiving.

What is the Macy's parade?

200

These are the the English separatists who came to the United States in 1620

Who are the Pilgrims?

200

DAILY DOUBLE This U.S. president was the first to officially pardon a turkey making it an annual event?

Who was George H.W. Bush?  In 1989 he "presented a Presidential pardon" to a "fine tom turkey"

200

This is what happens to the turkeys that are pardoned by the president each year.

These turkeys go on to live fulfilled lives.

200

DAILY DOUBLE This is why they let the turkey join the band?

What is because he had his own drumsticks?

300

This type of apple is used traditionally in apple pie?

What are Granny Smith apples?

300

This is the busiest day of the year for plumbers.

What is Black Friday?  Thanks to all that food we gobble up on Thanksgiving and houseguests stressing out the plumbing system, Roto-Rooter reports that kitchen drains, garbage disposals and yet, toilets, require more attention the day after Thanksgiving than any other day.

300

DAILY DOUBLE These are the indigenous people of North America who are a common symbol of Thanksgiving.

Who are the Native Americans or the Wampanoag tribe?

300

What's the name of the area the Pilgrims reached when they arrived in the USA?

Massachusetts

300

What's the name of the area the Pilgrims reached when they arrived in the USA?

What is Plymouth Colony?

300

DAILY DOUBLE This is what happened to the turkey that got in a fight?

What is he got the stuffing knocked out of him?

400

According to Americans, these are the best part of Thanksgiving.  HINT:  L _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

What are the Leftovers?

400

DAILY DOUBLE The oldest documented turkey trot still takes place every year in this city.

What is Buffalo, New York?

400

This is the name of the colony the Pilgrims started in the USA?  HINT:  P _ _ _ _ _ _ _   Colony.

What is Plymouth Colony?

400

This (These) President(s) pardoned turkeys.

Although Presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, along with First Ladies Thelma "Pat" Nixon and Rosalynn Carter, pardoned Thanksgiving turkeys, the modern turkey pardon did not become an annual tradition until the George H. W. Bush administration.

400

English settlers brought d _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . That's why Native Americans got sick. 

What are diseases?

400

DAILY DOUBLE This is what you call a running turkey.

What is Fast Food?

500

DAILY DOUBLE This Thanksgiving vegetable was grown in space.

In 1995,  NASA & the Univ. of Wisconsin, potatoes were grown in space inside the Columbia space shuttle to examine how micro-gravity would affect their growth  They were grown in an experiment to examine how micro-gravity would affect their growth since potatoes were grown. in a zero-gravity envornment.   Potatoes were the Veggie of choice because they are 2 be grown in a variety of climates;are very sturdy & adaptable, etc.

500

Name one additional country that celebrates Thanksgiving.

What is Canada.  They do so on a different day and for an unrelated reason.  Canadian Thanksgiving takes place on the second Monday of October every year.

500

This area of Massachusetts still looks just like it did in the 17th Century.  HINT:  P _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _?

What is Plymouth, Massachusetts?
500

DAILY DOUBLE This is the President that made Thanksgiving a permanent national holiday?

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

500

DAILY DOUBLE This is the name of the ship the Pilgrims boarded to start their journey to Plymouth, Massachusetts

What is the Mayflower?

500

DAILY DOUBLE This is what the turkey said to the computer?

What is Google, google?

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