Thanksgiving Foods
Thanksgiving Traditions
Thanksgiving Symbols
Thanksgiving History
NFL Thanksgiving
100
The most popular main course served on Thanksgiving.
What is turkey?
100
The name for the shopping day immediately after Thanksgiving.
What is Black Friday?
100
The orange vegetable commonly used as a symbol of Thanksgiving.
What is a pumpkin?
100
The name of the ship the Pilgrims boarded to start their journey that ended in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
What is the Mayflower?
100
The NFL team that has played nearly twice the amount of Thanksgiving games than any other team.
Who are the Detroit Lions?
82 Games (as of 2021)
200
The most popular Thanksgiving dessert.
What is pumpkin pie?
200
The day and month of the year on which we traditionally celebrate Thanksgiving.
What is the fourth Thursday of November?
200
The indigenous people of North America who are a common symbol of Thanksgiving.
Who are Native Americans.
Double points if you said "Wampanoag tribe".
200
What year was the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade?
What is 1924? When employees marched through 34th St dressed as clowns, cowboys, and knights. There were floats, professional bands and twenty-five live animals borrowed from the Central Park Zoo.
200
The NFL team has the third most Thanksgiving appearances.
Who are the Green Bay Packers?
36 games played
300
A red fruit popular as a side dish for Thanksgiving dinner, it is either served whole or as a jelly.
What are cranberries?
300
The part of the turkey that two people pull apart to see if their wish will be granted.
What is the wishbone?
300
The English Separatists who came to the United States in 1620 for religious purposes.
Who were the Pilgrims?
300
How many calories on average are consumed, per person, at Thanksgiving dinner?
What is 4,500?
300
The reason why no Thanksgiving football games were played between 1941 and 1944.
What was World War II?
400
A vegan, vegetarian, non-meat food popular with non-meat eaters on Thanksgiving.
What is tofurky?
400
The most popular alternative to turkey on Thanksgiving.
What is ham?
400
A bird native to North America that is large enough to feed a family and which can have a bad disposition.
What is a wild turkey?
400
The year of the first Thanksgiving?
What is 1621?
Double points if you can identify the year that the English first settled in Connecticut.
400
The year of the first Thanksgiving NFL game which year included the Canton Bulldogs vs the Akron Pros.
What is 1920?
500
The best way to tell if a cranberry is ripe.
What is "See if it bounces"?
500
A race many people run on Thanksgiving morning.
What is a turkey trot?
OR
What is the Manchester Road Race?
500
The conical-shaped basket that is generally pictured filled with fruits and vegetables, its origins date back to the classical world and a story about the god Zeus.
What is a cornucopia?
500
The number of days the first Thanksgiving celebration lasted.
What is three days?
500
The NFL team with the second most appearances on Thanksgiving.
Who are the Dallas Cowboys?
600
The number of calories consumed on average per person on Thanksgiving dinner in the United States.
What is 4,500 calories?
600
The number of turkeys consumed every year at Thanksgiving.
What is 46 million?
600
The type of meat the native Americans brought to the first Thanksgiving.
What is venison?
OR
What is deer?
600
The cause of about one-half of the Pilgrim population to die off in their first year living in New England.
What is sickness and starvation?
But through prayer and hard work, with the assistance of their Indian friends, the Pilgrims reaped a rich harvest in the summer of 1621.
600
The only active NFL franchise to have never played on Thanksgiving.
Who are the Jacksonville Jaguars?