Thanksgiving
This is the most popular main course eaten on Thanksgiving Day.
What is turkey?
In our family, these people share an anniversary.
Who are Mike, Rebecca, Monty and Greg?
This dessert is prepared in a pastry base, filled with apples (sometimes additional fruit is added), then topped with a lattice or circular top. It is usually sweetened with sugar, and spiced with nutmeg or cinnamon, and served with ice-cream, whipped cream or custard.
What is Apple Pie?
True or False: the arrival of the Mayflower was the Wampanoag's first contact with Europeans.
What is False? The Wampanoags had had contact with Europeans for decades and several of their members already spoke English when the Pilgrims arrived.
The neighbors in A Christmas Story, who had a handful of rowdy, hungry dogs.
Who are the Bumpuses?
This dessert is served more than any other on Thanksgiving Day.
What is pumpkin pie?
This is the number of generations of educators in the family (not yet counting Adrianna Lynn).
What is four?
The delicious chocolate and cherry cake is named for the Black Forest region in which European country?
What is Germany?
True or False: The Pilgrims came to North America for religious freedom.
What is False? The Pilgrims had religious freedom in Holland, where they first arrived in the early 17th century. Like those who settled Jamestown, Va., in 1607, the Pilgrims came to North America to make money. Puritans came for religious freedom.
This is the current number of Home Alone movies in the franchise.
What is 6 movies?
Each Thanksgiving, our nation's president has one very important, life saving job.
What is pardoning a turkey?
Betty and Cort Jones got married on New Year's Eve in Alaska. Leaving for their honeymoon was done in this romantic fashion.
What is via sled dogs through the snow?
Although many variations exist, these are the 10 traditional ingredients in a banana split.
What are vanilla ice cream, strawberry ice cream, chocolate ice cream, pineapple sauce, strawberry sauce, chocolate sauce, banana, whipped cream, cherry and peanuts?
True or False: A type of pie was served and eaten at the 1621 Thanksgiving attended by Pilgrims and Wampanoag.
What is False? Settlers lacked butter and wheat flour for a crust, and they had no oven for baking. What is known is that the Pilgrims harvested crops and that the Wampanoag brought five deer.
In Elf, this is considered the First Rule.
What is treat every day like Christmas?
In today's modern age, some people prefer to celebrate Thanksgiving with non-relatives, resulting in a re-naming of Thanksgiving to...
What is Friendsgiving?
Bob and Sandy first met in this place, Bob noticing what a strong woman Sandy was, Sandy exhibiting her trustworthiness and honesty.
What is a grocery store?
Although Red Velvet is known for a vibrant red color, the flavor is actually this.
What is chocolate?
True or False: Tisquantum, known as Squanto, played a large role in helping the Pilgrims.
What is true? His people, the Patuxet, a band of the Wampanoag tribe, had lived on the site where the Pilgrims settled. When they arrived, he became a translator for them in diplomacy and trade with other native people, and showed them the most effective method for planting corn and the best locations to fish.
The title awarded to the Grinch in the Jim Carey version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
What is the Holiday Cheermeister?
Although no birds are in sight, this is a sport where "turkey" is used to describe 3 high scores in a row.
What is bowling?
This is the name of Monty's first dog (after the age of 14), a loveable big dog with shaggy hair.
What is Beau?
This cake is a layered chocolate cake with a coconut-pecan frosting between the layers as well as on top. Someone we love loves this cake.
What is German Chocolate Cake?
Tisquantum learned English not by interacting with the Pilgrims, but because of this aspect of his early life.
What is being captured and sold into slavery like many Native Americans and people of color around the world?
Who are those who believe in Santa/ have Christmas spirit?
Perhaps the reason turkeys can only fly in short bursts, the average turkey weighs this hefty amount.
What is 15 lbs?
With a farm-like sound, this is the name of the grocery store chain that Grandma Barb worked at.
What is Piggly Wiggly?
This dessert, traditionally made in the south for Thanksgiving, is a pumpkin pie alternate.
What is sweet potato pie?
The idea that friendly Indians, unidentified by tribe, welcome the Pilgrims to America, teach them how to live in this new place, and sit down to dinner with them is now called this.
What is The Thanksgiving Myth?
These two bullies terrorize Ralphie and his friends in A Christmas Story, one has yellow eyes!
Who are Scot Farkus and Grover Dill?
The famous Macy's parade began their annual celebratory parade in this year.
What is 1924?
Michael was originally going to pursue what career after High School, before he decided to move to Bellingham instead of Arizona.
What is motorcycle mechanic?
This all-time best-selling candy bar in the USA was introduced in 1930 by the M&Ms Mars company.
What is a Snickers bar?
This is the harm in perpetuating the white washed version of Thanksgiving and the relationship between the Europeans and Indigenous people.
What is erases the long and bloody series of conflicts between white settlers and Native Americans and marginalizes the truth of what really happened in North America?
Clark forgets this during their annual trip to select a Christmas tree.
What is a saw?
To recognize the role of providence for the nation, this president ordered the first national day of Thanksgiving.
Who is George Washington?
Robert and Rebecca Montador met on a boat immigrating to Canada. These are their countries of origin.
What are Scotland and Ireland?
This delicious dessert layers jelly, thin sponge or cookie fingers, fruit, custard and cream.
What is a trifle?
The Pilgrims lived in these types of houses, not log cabins as is often depicted in children's books and movies.
What is wood clapboard houses made from sawed lumber?
This alternative Christmas movie features terrorists who take over Nakatomi Plaza on Christmas Eve.
What is Die Hard?
Scientists and doctors will tell you this is the reason eating turkey makes you sleepy.
What is L tryptophan?
This is the name of the railroad that employed Grandpa Jerry.
What is Burlington Northern Railroad?
This cake, served at Mike and Rebecca's wedding, has layers of sponge, and custard or cream. Layers of fruit may be added as well.
These two states claim to have had the actual first Thanksgiving (prior to 1621).
What is Texas (1598) and Virginia (1619)?
In the original Home Alone movie, this neighbor keeps a watchful eye on Kevin.
Who is Old Man Marley?
In 2013, president Barack Obama served this many types of pie at the presidential Thanksgiving dinner.
What is 9 types of pie?
Although he still holds a national record for the one mile relay, when Bob went to the Junior Olympics, this is the event in which he competed.
What is the long jump?
The current version of this dessert is believed to have been formed in Istanbul during the height of the Ottoman empire. It can be found from Syria to Greece, and it is thought that, in its most basic form, this food has existed in Central Asia and the Middle East for many centuries.
What is baklava?
Despite school pageants perpetuating myths, the real reason Chief Ousamequin, of the Wampanoag people, reached out to the Pilgrims was not for a shared dinner, but rather for this purpose.
What is secure an alliance with the English for support against against enemy tribes, since disease had wiped out many of his own tribe members.
Which iconic character narrates the 1969 Frosty the Snowman animated movie?
Who is Jimmy Durante?