Home for the Holidays
Claudia Larson, played by Holly Hunter, is a single mom who has just been fired from her job due to budget cuts. What was her job?
What is an art restorer?
From a small thorny tree, this fruit has a textured outer peel, and is used to flavor food and drinks.
What is a Lemon?
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, the world's largest parade, is presented by what U.S. based department store chain?
What is Macy's Department Store?
The name of the blue tang fish with short term memory loss that helps Marlin find his lost son.
Who is Dory?
Pilgrims and Puritans carried the tradition of Days of Fasting and Days of Thanksgiving with them to New England. From what country did they emigrate?
What is England?
Claudia Larson heads to her parents home for Thanksgiving Dinner but her daughter didn't join her. Who is the actress that played her daugher, Kitt?
Who is Claire Danes?
In uniforms of yellow, this young team started out fast and powerful. Now weak and slow, they only have their fashion to bestow.
What are the Young Yellow Things?
The parade marches down Central Park West to 59th Street then heads east to 6th Avenue and then all the way to Macy's Department Store. On what street is Macy's located?
What is 34th Street?
All mighty and powerful, these talented athletes of blue have over-powered their opponents for the past 5 years.
Who is the Blue Team?
In what year did the Kirkwood-Webster Groves Football Rivalry begin between these two schools.
What is 1898?
Claudia's gay brother Tommy (Robert Downey Jr.) turns up with a new friend played by Actor Dylan McDermott. What is the name of Tommy's friend?
Who is Leo Fish?
Originally made from Charles Goodyear's excess materials in the 1800s, this iconic bath tub toy is now made of vinyl.
What is a Rubber Duckie?
The three-hour parade is held in Manhattan from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Thanksgiving Day. The parade has been televised nationally on NBC since what year?
1) 1963
2) 1952
3) 1965
What year is 1952?
A notorious extra-terrestrial fugitive from the law, this small ugly "dog" is adopted by a Hawaiin Girl.
Who is Stitch?
The annual family flag football game began an estimated 9 years ago. The team assigned to the yellow flags became the fashionistic Yellow Young Thangs. The team assigned to blue flags became the undefeated Blue Team for the past 3 years. How were these teams selected?
What is a random drawing of numbers?
The comedy-drama, Home for the Holidays, was released in what year?
1) 1998
2) 1995
3) 2001
What was the year 1995?
These fictional yellow creatures characterized by their unique language are the official mascots of Illumination, a division of Universal Pictures?
What is a Minion?
How are band directors invited to march in the Macy's Day Parade?
1) Band directors submit an application along with a DVD of a field marching performance to the Macy's Band Selection Committee.
2) Bands that have previously marched in the Rose Bowl Parade the year prior are seleted by the Macy's Band Selection Committee.
3) Scouts from the Macy's Band Selection Committee attend National Band Competitions throughout the year. Invitations are sent to the top performing bands nation-wide.
What is "Band directors submit an application along with a DVD?
Monsters Incorporated is the largest scare factory in the monster world. James P. Sullivan, a huge intimidating monster with blue fur, is played by what actor?
Who is John Goodman?
From the time of the Founding Fathers until the time of Lincoln, the date Thanksgiving was observed varied from state to state. On October 31, 1939, what president signed a presidential proclamation changing the holiday to the next to last Thursday in November, for business reasons?
Who is President Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Who was the Director of Home for the Holidays?
1) Holly Hunt
2) Jodie Foster
3) Anne Bankroft
Who is Jodie Foster?
Big Bird is an 8'2" yellow bird who lives on Sesame Street. In what year did Sesame Street premiere?
1) 1969
2) 1972
3) 1964
What is year 1969?
What was the first character balloon in the Macy's Day Parade?
Who is "Felix the Cat"?
In the highest grossing film of all time, these human/Na'vi hybrids live in the lush alien world of Pandora. What is the name of this movie?
What is Avatar?
The consumption of turkey on Thanksgiving is so ingrained in American culture that each year since 1947, what organization/company has presented a live turkey to the President of the United States prior to each Thanksgiving?
1) Cooper Farms
2) Butterball, Inc.
3) National Turkey Federation
What is the National Turkey Federation?