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100
This is the most popular main course on Thanksgiving
What is turkey?
100
The company Butterball receives this many calls each year about turkeys
What is Over 100,000?
100
Give the orange vegetable commonly used as a symbol of Thanksgiving
What is pumpkin?
100
Name of the ship the Pilgrims boarded to start their journey to Plymouth, Massachusetts
What is the Mayflower?
100
Baby turkey is called this
What is Poult?
100
This President first ordered a national day of Thanksgiving
Who is George Washington?
100
NO Thanksgiving football games were played during 1941 to 1944 because of this event
What is WWII?
200
This U.S. state produces the most sweet potatoes
a) North Carolina
b) South Carolina
c) Georgia
What is North Carolina?
200
This is the busiest day for plumbers
What is Day after Thanksgiving?
200
Name this ...
What is Cornucopia ?
200
What town canceled Thanksgiving because they couldn't make pumpkin pies?
Colchester, Connecticut
A frigid bout of cold weather in the middle of October led to the Connecticut River freezing, so settlers couldn’t get their usual liquid sugar shipped on time from across the pond. Thus, the townspeople decided to postpone the holiday for a week in 1705.
200
Both Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and America’s Thanksgiving Parade are conclude with this
What is the arrival of Santa Claus?
200
Name the first president to "pardon" a turkey?
Who is John F Kennedy?
200
Name the city home to the oldest Thanksgiving parade
What is Philadelphia (1920) ?
4 years before the Macy's day parade started....
300
This eating utensil was not used by the Pilgrims to eat Thanksgiving dinner
What is a fork?
300
The busiest shopping day after Thanksgiving
What is Black Friday?
300
Meaning of cornucopia in regards to Thanksgiving
What is Appreciation for abundance, and a bountiful harvest?
300
How many women were at the first Thanksgiving meal?
5
300
This person said: "Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more"
Winston Churchill
Oprah Winfrey
Nelson Mandela
Michael J. Fox
Who is Oprah?
"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."
300
Name of President who made turkey pardoning an annual event?
Who is George H.W. Bush?
300
Name the NFL football Franchise with the most Thanksgiving games played
What is Detroit Lions ?
400
This food was included at the first Thanksgiving BUT is rarely a part of a modern Thanksgiving meal
What is seafood?
400
Canada's Thanksgiving Day falls in this month
What is October?
400
True or False - This was served at the first Thanksgiving
What is True?
The Wampanoag people taught the Pilgrims in Plymouth how to plant and cultivate corn to survive the winter.
400
What product owes its existence to Thanksgiving?
T.V. Dinner
Recliner
Hula Hoop
Butter
A. T.V. Dinner
In 1953, someone at Swanson misjudged the number of frozen turkeys it would sell that Thanksgiving -- by 26 TONS! So they came up with a brilliant plan: to slice up the meat and repackage with some trimmings on the side. And so the first TV dinner was born!
400
This Sesame Street character is made of turkey feathers
Who is Big Bird?
Big Bird's feathers are white turkey feathers, dyed yellow. There are approximately 4,000 feathers on the character
400
Name the President who refused to celebrate Thanksgiving as a national holiday
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
400
True or False:
The author of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" helped Thanksgiving become a holiday
What is True?
Sarah Josepha Hale, who also wrote the famous children's poem, lobbied state and federal officials for years to make Thanksgiving an official holiday. She argued that the day could help bring unity to the divided country amid the Civil War.
500
Name a vegetarian roast (food) created as a turkey alternative
What is Tofurky?
500
The amount of turkeys consumed every Thanksgiving
a) 46,000
b) 4.6 million
c) 46 million
d) 460 million
What is 46 million?
500
Name this...
What are Cranberries?
Cranberries are one of the few fruits native to North America. Cranberry harvesting season is between mid-September and early November.
Since cranberries were so important and widely available it is believed that they were present at the first Thanksgiving.
500
The year of the first Thanksgiving
1776
1965
1621
What is 1621?
500
Name the founding father who thought the turkey should be the national bird of the United States
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
500
Name the president who received a raccoon as a Thanksgiving gift
Who is President Calvin Coolidge? He received a live raccoon for Thanksgiving in 1926. It was intended to be dinner, but the president's family ended up keeping the raccoon as a pet. They named it Rebecca.
500
Name this...
What is the Furcula or Wish Bone?
An ancient Italian civilization who believed that birds were oracles and could predict the future. Basically, they kept this bone—the furcula—in order to hold on to the bird's supposed powers so they could continue making wishes
600
Name the amount spent on canned cranberry sauce
What is $42 million ?
600
This Christmas song was originally written for Thanksgiving
What is Jingle Bells?
600
This meat was brought by the native Americans to the first Thanksgiving
What is Deer (Venison)?
600
Number of days the first Thanksgiving lasted
What is 3?
600
Name the loose red skin attached to the underside of a turkey’s beak
What is Wattle?
600
Name the president who proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
600
Name the famous soup company who created the green bean casserole
Who is Campbells ?
The idea for this Thanksgiving staple was cooked up by a Campbell's recipe developer as a way to sell the company's cream of mushroom soup.