Food
This large bird is the centerpiece of most Thanksgiving dinners.
What is a Turkey?
This group of Native Americans helped the Pilgrims survive their first winter in Plymouth Colony, later joining them in a harvest feast in 1621.
Who are the Wampanoag?
This President declared Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Celebrated in November 1621, this three-day festival at Plymouth brought together Pilgrims and Wampanoag Native Americans
What is the First Thanksgiving?
The flap of skin hanging from a turkey's neck
What is a wattle?
What Native American served as an interpreter between the Pilgrims and Native Americans?
Who is Sqaunto?
This famous Wampanoag leader helped establish peace and collaboration between his people and the Pilgrims.
Who was Massasoit?
In the 1973 animated special, Charlie Brown hosts Thanksgiving dinner with toast, popcorn, pretzels, and this sweet treat?
What are jelly beans?
The optimal internal temperature for safely cooked turkey.
What is 165°F?
How many Pilgrims attended the first Thanksgiving harvest feast?
About 53 people
Thanksgiving was celebrated on different dates in various states until this President fixed the date to the fourth Thursday of November in 1941.
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This iconic parade in New York City, originally celebrating Christmas, now draws millions of spectators each Thanksgiving Day?
What is Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade?
This traditional dessert, often made with a custard base and flavored with pumpkin, is typically spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves, and is baked in a flaky pastry crust.
What is pumpkin pie?
What law did the Pilgrims draft upon arrival to ensure social order?
What is the Mayflower Compact
The Pilgrims moved to America seeking this type of freedom.
What is religious freedom?
Despite popular myth, turkey was not served at the first Thanksgiving feast in 1621; instead, officials documented a variety of meats, including venison, goose, duck, and a lesser-known large waterfowl.
What were venison, goose, duck, and swan?
TRUE OR FALSE: Eating turkey makes you tired
FALSE: it's the over-eating
Where did the Pilgrims first land in America?
Where is Provincetown, Massachusetts?
In colonial New England, Thanksgiving celebrations were declared for this reason, unlike the modern harvest festival.
What are days of giving thanks for blessings, victories, or survival?
This "provisional governor" of Plymouth Colony authored the only surviving first-hand account of the 1621 harvest feast commonly regarded as the first Thanksgiving.
Who is Edward Winslow?