Turkey Trivia
True or False: Turkeys can drown if they look up in the rain.
What is True
According to Butterball corporation, it is recommended that you thaw a wrapped turkey in the refrigerator for this amount of time for every 4 lbs of bird
What is 1 day?
This is the name of the famous rock credited to where the pilgrims first landed
True or False: Turkey eggs are brown
What is True?
This department store was the first to hold a Thanksgiving Day Parade
What is Gimbel's?
This state produces the most turkeys
What is North Carolina
Butterball says that once the turkey is done, you should let it stand for 15 minutes before serving to allow this to happen
What is let the stuffing cool before taking it out?
This is the name of the ship the pilgrims came over on
What is the Mayflower?
Most of us eat pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving. An old wives tale says pumpkin is a cure for this condition
What are Freckles?
This is the first year Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade took place
What is 1924?
A turkey can run this many miles per hour
What is 25
Butterball recommends that you cover the breast and top of the drumsticks with foil at this time
What is when it is 2/3 cooked?
This is the original name for the pilgrims
What is Purtitans
Back in the early Thanksgiving celebrations, this sporting event was popular
What is shooting?
This was the first balloon in the 1927 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
What is Felix the Cat?
True or False: All turkeys gobble
What is False
This part of the turkey is saved and snapped as a superstitious good luck custom
What is the wishbone?
Captain John Smith founded this colony in Virginia
What is Jamestown?
This President was the first to establish Thanksgiving as a legal national holiday to be held on the 4th Thursday in November
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt
The longest balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
What is Superman?
The name for baby turkeys
What is poults?
Butterball says this is the best place to put the meat thermometer in the turkey
What is the thigh?
It is believed this many pilgrim women survived to celebrate the first Thanksgiving in 1621
Of the original 102 pilgrims that came, approximately this many survived to celebrate the first Thanksgiving.
How many is 50
This parade is said to be the origin of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade