History of Thanksgiving
Let's Talk Turkey
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What was the name of the colony where the Puritans had their first Thanksgiving?
Plymouth (Massachusetts) 1620
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What is the name of the red thing on a Turkey's face?
Snood or Wattle
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What were the three vegetables grown by Native Americans known as the 3 sisters?
Beans, Corn, and Squash
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3, the amount of what is named Turkey.
Towns
Turkey, TX
Turkey, NC
Turkey Creek, AZ
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3.5 million, this is the number of people who attend what.
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
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What food did the Native Americans and colonists not have on Thanksgiving?
Turkey
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3,500 this is how many what a turkey has.
Feathers
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Is a Pumpkin a vegetable or a fruit?
Fruit
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1876, this was the year the first what took place on Thanksgiving.
Football game, between Princeton and Yale University
1920 was the first NFL Game
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This East Coast city has the oldest Thanksgiving Parade.
Philadelphia
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This Native American was the interpreter for the Pilgrims.
Squanto (Tisquantum)
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What state raised the most turkeys?
Minnesota. 40-42 million birds a year
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This Thanksgiving vegetable was grown in space.
Potato
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This Founding Father wanted the Turkey as the National Bird.
Benjamin Franklin
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This was not a part of the original Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.
Ballons
Originally it was live zoo animals from the Central Park Zoo
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This President made Thanksgiving a national holiday.
Abraham Lincoln
Washington issued the first Thanksgiving proclamation in 1789
FDR made the 4th Thursday the offical day
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How heavy is the heaviest turkey on record?
a: 38
b: 67
c: 86
d: 98
c: 86
Named Tyson. Sold in a London charity auction in 1989 for around $6,500. The average turkey is 15lbs
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Pumpkins are from North America, but this popular flavor is from tropical plants.
Pumkin Spice
Cinnamon, cloves, ginger, nutmeg, and allspice
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Buffalo, NY in 1896, the place and year of the first what.
Turkey Trot
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This was the first character balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Felix the Cat
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How many other countries celebrate Thanksgiving?
10
But many are because of American influence and/or celebrated on different days for harvest celebrations
Rwanda, Netherlands, Philippines, Saint Lucia, Liberia, UK, Canada, Brazil, Australia, and Germany.
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The average wild turkey lives how long?
a: 1-2 years
b: 3-4 years
c: 4-5 years
d: 10-12 years
B: 3-4 years
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80 million pounds of this is eaten during Thanksgiving week
Cranberries
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During which Revolutionary War battle did troops stop to observe a day of Thanksgiving?
The Battle of Saratoga
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This character has appeared more than any other in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.
Snoopy
Debuted in 1968 and has 8 different balloons. Has 44 appearances 