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100
Number of days that the first Thanksgiving lasted.
What is 3?
100
Country that the Pilgrims sailed from.
What is England?
100
This country celebrated its harvest in the Spring with a parade featuring the Pharaoh.
What is Egypt?
100
Name of the ship the Pilgrims sailed on.
What is the Mayflower?
100
True or False--Thomas Jefferson once said that the idea of a Thanksgiving holiday was "the most ridiculous idea anyone has ever thought of."
What is true?
200
44 Pilgrims
What is the number of Pilgrims who sailed from England for the New World? (The other 66 on board were not Pilgrims; they called them "strangers.")
200
Country that the Pilgrims lived in before coming to the New World.
What is Holland?
200
A Hindu harvest festival lasiting 5 days takes place in this country
What is India?
200
Charlestown, Massachusetts was the first town in the US to declare a day of Thanksgiving. Did it take place in June, October or November?
What is June?
200
Of the nursery rhymes Humpty Dumpty, Mary Had A Little Lamb and Jack and Jill Went Up the Hill, the one that was written by the woman who was responsible for pushing for Thanksgiving to be a national holiday.
What is Mary Had a Little Lamb?
300
91 Indians
What is the number of Indians who attended the first Thanksgiving?
300
Name the Pilgrims gave to their first settlement.
What is Plymouth?
300

According to legend, this country had its women put secret messages about an upcoming battle into its moon cakes.

What is China?

300
Of clams, deer meat and potatoes, the one which was not on the menu of the first Thanksgiving.
What is potatoes?
300

Thanksgiving is called a national day of mourning by this group.

Who are the Native Americans (also called American Indians)?

400
45 out of 110?
What is the number of settlers from the Mayflower who survived the first winter?
400
Name of the piece of land the Pilgrims first sighted upon their arrival in the New World.
What is Cape Cod?
400
Chinese believed that during their harvest festival, flowers would fall from this place.
What is the moon?
400
Of forks, knives and spoons, the utensil that the Pilgrims did not have.
What is forks?
400
Of 1 billion, 7 billion, 20 billion, number of pounds of turkey sold each year for Thanksgiving meals.
What is 7 billion?
500
65 days
What is the number of days it took the Pilgrims to cross the Atlantic?
500
State bordering Connecticut that was the first state to have an official Thanksgiving Day.
What is New York?
500
The harvest festival in this North Asian country is called Cheosok.
What is Korea?
500
Of chestnuts, hickory nuts and peanuts, the one that was not eaten at the first Thanksgiving.
What is peanuts?
500
One of the colleges that played in the first Thanksgiving Day football game.
What is Yale vs. Princeton.
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