HOLIDAY SEASON
TIME FOR DINNER
PILGRIM PRIDE
ON TURKEY DAY
GOBBLE GOBBLE
100
The day after Thanksgiving is a popular shopping day known as
Black Friday
100
The average person eats this many calories on Thanksgiving:
A) 1500
B) 3000
C) 4500
D) 6000
C) 4500 calories
100
In 1620, the pilgrims came to the new world on a boat named
The Mayflower
100
This store hosts the parade in New York City every year celebrating Thanksgiving
Macy's
100
True or False: Turkey has more protein than chicken or beef
TRUE!
200
This is the most popular holiday drink, especially on Christmas
Eggnog
200
Soaking a turkey in salt and spices before cooking it is called
Brining (A brine)
200
The first Thanksgiving lasted this long
A) 1 day
B) 3 days
C) 5 days
D) 1 week
B) 3 days
200
There may be five weeks in November, but Franklin D. Roosevelt made sure that Thanksgiving would always be celebrated on the ___ week.
4th
200
The most popular brand of turkey sold in the US is
Butterball
300
According to tradition, Christmas decorations should be put up on
A) November 1st
B) The day after Thanksgiving
C) The weekend after Thanksgiving
D) The first day of Advent
D) The first day of Advent
(the fourth Sunday before Christmas)
300
Statistically, the favorite side dish of Americans on Thanksgiving is
Stuffing
300
This is where the first thanksgiving took place
Plymouth, Massachusetts
300
True or False: Thanksgiving is celebrated in the US, Canada, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Liberia, the Phillipines, and even Brazil.
True
300
According to the Guiness Book of World Records, the heaviest turkey weighed this many pounds
86 lbs
400
The average height of a Christmas tree is
about 7' tall
400
For a turkey to be safe to eat, a meat thermometer must show at least this many degrees in the breast when it is taken out of the oven
165°F
400
This many women were at the first Thanksgiving celebration
4
400
These two football teams play almost every Thanksgiving
The Dallas Cowboys and the Detroit Lions
400
The name of the chemical in turkey that supposedly makes you sleepy is
The amino acid tryptophan
500
Between Thanksgiving and New Years, the post office delivers about this many packages
15 billion pieces of mail and about 800 million packages
500
It takes about this long for a 20lb turkey to fully cook in the oven at 350°F
5 hours at approximately 15 min per pound
500
The name of the tribe that the pilgrims ate their first Thanksgiving dinner with is
The Wampanoag
500
Approximately this many turkeys are eaten on Thanksgiving every year in the United States
More than 46 million turkeys
500
The name of the skin that dangles under the turkeys neck is called
Wattle