Thanksgiving History
What is Plymouth?
The first Thanksgiving was a celebration of peace between the Native Americans and the Pilgrims.
What is fiction? (The colonists were celebrating their victory over the Native Americans)
This iconic sound is what male turkeys use to attract mates.
What is gobble?
This team has won the most Thanksgiving games.
Who are the Detroit Lions?
What are cranberries?
This war was happening when Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday.
What is the civil war?
Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. president to pardon a turkey.
What is fact?
A group of turkeys.
What is a rafter/gang/flock?
These two NFL teams have played games on Thanksgiving Day since 1966.
Who are the Detroit Lions and the Dallas Cowboys?
This European ingredient usually tops green bean casserole.
What are French fried onions?
These Native American people joined the Pilgrims for the first Thanksgiving.
Who are the Wampanoag?
The Pilgrims and Native Americans ate turkey at the first Thanksgiving.
What is fiction? (they ate deer)
A female turkey is also called this three letter word.
What is hen?
This award is given to the MVPs of the Thanksgiving day matches.
What is the Turkey Leg Award?
This is the process of pouring or squeezing juices over a turkey while it's cooking to help keep it moist.
What is basting?
Every Thanksgiving Day in Plymouth, Native Americans gather to remember their ancestors and grieve their genocide in what they call a National Day of ____.
What is National Day of Mourning?
Canada celebrates Thanksgiving on the second Monday of October.
What is fact?
True or false: A wild turkey can fly up to 55mph.
What is true?
What are Yale and Princeton?
This utensil was not used during the first Thanksgiving.
What is fork?
A captive of the English, this Native American was brought back to America by the people who enslaved him to be the translator between them and his people.
Who is Squanto?
George W. Bush was the first president to make the turkey pardon an annual tradition.
According to the National Turkey Federation, this many turkeys are consumed each Thanksgiving.
What is 45 to 46 million?
This team is the only team in the NFL that has never played on Thanksgiving.
Who are the Jacksonville Jaguars?
The classic Thanksgiving side-dish called "stuffing" is actually called this in the South.
What is dressing?