Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving can occur as early as November what?
When is November 22?
What are baby turkeys called?
What are poults?
What is the average number of calories consumed on Thanksgiving?
What is 4,500?
What day and week Thanksgiving held on every year?
When is the 4th Thursdays in November?
Thanksgiving is ranked as America's what numbered most popular holiday?
What is second?
- Thanksgiving is ranked as America's second most popular holiday, after Christmas
What silverware item was not known to be used at the first Thanksgiving?
What are Forks?
- The first Thanksgiving feast was eaten with spoons and knives. The Pilgrims didn’t even know what forks were at the time.
What food item wasn’t on the menu at the first Thanksgiving?
What is Turkey?
- No turkey was served in the beginning
- Historians believe that there was no turkey served at the first Thanksgiving. Instead, they had duck, geese, venison, oysters, lobster, eel, and fish.
Benjamin Franklin didn’t want the eagle to be the national bird. Instead what did he want it to be?
What is a Turkey?
Watching what sport is an integral part of most Thanksgiving celebrations.
What is Football?
President Madison declared that Thanksgiving should be held how many times in 1815?
What is 2?
Americans eat roughly how many pounds of turkey on Thanksgiving?
What is 535 million pounds of turkey?
What state in the U.S. eats the most turkey each year?
Where is California?
What holiday is the biggest travel day of the year to travel during?
What is Thanksgiving?
The tradition of football on Thanksgiving began in what year?
What is 1934?
How many towns in the United States are named “Turkey”?
What is Four?
When was the First Thanksgiving Celebrated?
When was 1621?
Abraham Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday on what date?
When was October 3, 1863?
In 2007, George W. Bush granted a pardon to two turkeys. What were they named?
Who is may?
Who is Flower?
The people of the Virgin Islands, a United States territory in the Caribbean Sea, celebrate how many Thanksgivings?
What is 2?
- The national holiday and Hurricane Thanksgiving Day. Every Oct 19, if there have been no hurricanes, Hurricane Day is held and the islanders give thanks that they have been spared.
If a wild turkey is frightened, how many miles per hour can it run?
What is 20 mph?
What year did the first Thanksgiving in America actually occur?
When was 1541?
- The first Thanksgiving in America actually occurred in 1541, when Francisco Vasquez de Coronado and his expedition held a thanksgiving celebration in Palo Duro Canyon in the Texas panhandle.
How many stomachs do Turkeys have?
What is 2?
- Turkeys have two stomachs
What song was originally written as a Thanksgiving song.
What is "Jingle Bells"?
On average how long does it take to cook a Thanksgiving dinner?
What is 7 Hours?
- On average, it takes about 7 hours to cook a Thanksgiving dinner. People spend about 16 minutes eating it.
What holiday that is held every year on the island of Alcatraz since 1975 known as?
What is “Unthanksgiving Day”?
- Held every year on the island of Alcatraz since 1975, “Unthanksgiving Day” commemorates the survival of Native Americans following the arrival and settlement of Europeans in the Americas.