Thanksgiving Foods
The most popular main course on Thanksgiving
What is turkey?
The English separatists who came to the United States in 1620.
The sport people usually watch on Thanksgiving
What is football?
The reason the Pilgrims left England.
What is religious persecution?
The food the Native Americans first taught the Pilgrims to grow.
What is corn?
The most popular dessert at Thanksgiving dinner
What is Pumpkin Pie?
The name of the ship associated with Thanksgiving.
What is the Mayflower?
A race many people run on Thanksgiving morning.
What is a turkey trot?
The Founding Father who wanted the wild turkey to be the symbol of the United States of America
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
What are pumpkins?
The "sauce" that is popular to put on your mashed potatoes
What is gravy?
In what month did the first Thanksgiving probably take place?
What is September?
The day after Thanksgiving is the busiest day of the year for:
a. Firefighters
b. Plumbers
c. Police Officers
d. Veterinarians
What are plumbers?
The United States President who made Thanksgiving an official holiday.
Who was President Abraham Lincoln?
Blacksmith who invented the first commercially successful, self-scouring steel plow.
Who was John Deere?
A favorite leftover from Thanksgiving:
a. turkey and stuffing pancakes
b. turkey and gravy muffins
c. turkey sandwiches
d. green bean casserole meatballs
What are turkey sandwiches?
The number of women at the first Thanksgiving meal.
a. 1
b. 3
c. 5
d. 11
5
The day and month of the year on which we traditionally celebrate Thanksgiving
What is the fourth Thursday of November?
How long was the first Thanksgiving?
What is 3 days?
More than 100 million acres of land on the Great Plains that experienced drought and high winds, destroying crops and covering communities in layers of dirt.
What was the Dust Bowl?
The number of pumpkin pies eaten during Thanksgiving
What is 50 million?
The indigenous people of North American who traded with the Pilgrims and taught them how to plant corn.
Who were the Wampanoag People?
Who was Tisquantum (also known as Squanto)?
The American President who moved Thanksgiving up one week.
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
why? Prior to 1941, Thanksgiving was the last Thursday of the month. In 1939, Thanksgiving would have fallen on Nov. 30, the last day of the month. FDR worried the shortened Christmas shopping season would dampen the economic recovery. He moved the holiday, which resulted in much opposition. In 1941, a joint resolution of Congress was signed into law by FDR designating Thanksgiving be observed the fourth Thursday in November each year.
It is unknown whether or not turkey was eaten at the first Thanksgiving. What foods were on the menu of the first Thanksgiving? Name four.
Deer. Wildfowl (duck, geese, or swans). Seafood (Cod, bass, eel, lobster, mussels). Corn. Bread. Porridge.
Likely beans and squash.
Inventor of the first working combine.
An additional 100 points for naming the year.
Who were Hiram Moore and John Hascall of Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
Patented in 1836.