Dates
The Beasts of Thanksgiving
Important People
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous Part 2
100
What year was the first Thanksgiving celebrated.

What is 1621

100

What is the name of the wobbly, red piece of skin on a turkey's throat?

What is the Wattle

100

Which President declared Thanksgiving a National Holiday in 1789?

Who is George Washington

100

Which Native American tribe celebrated the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims?

What is the Wampanoag people

100

What is the scientific name for the wishbone?

What is the furcula.

200

What year was the first "Thanksgiving" feast held?

What is 1621

200

What are Baby Turkeys called?

What is Poults
200

Who is considered the Mother of Thanksgiving?

Who is Sarah Josepha Hale

200

How long did the first Thanksgiving feast last?

What is Three Days

200

What is the name of the ship that brought the pilgrims to America?

What is The Mayflower

300

In what year did George H.W. Bush become the first president to formally pardon a turkey?

What is 1989

300

Only male turkeys make a sound called a "gobble." What is this sound called?

What is Gobbling
300

What is the name of the Native American who taught the Pilgrims to grow crops?

Who is Squanto

300

What animal did the Pilgrims eat during the first Thanksgiving?

What is a Deer/Venison
300

What cartoon character made his first appearance at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1968?

Who is Snoopy

400

What year did the animated special A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving first air?

What is 1973

400

What state raises the most turkeys?

What is North Carolina

400

Who wanted the Turkey to be the official national bird?

Who is Benjamin Franklin

400

What President tried and failed to change the date of Thanksgiving?

Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt
400

What Football team started playing on Thanksgiving in 1966?

Who were the Dallas Cowboys

500

What year did the first "Turkey Trot" race take place?

What is 1896

500

What animal did the Wampanoag people bring to the first Thanksgiving feast?

What is a Deer/Venison

500

Which President was the first to officially pardon a turkey?

Who is Abraham Lincoln

500

Who holds a Guinness World Record for both plucking and carving a Thanksgiving turkey?

Who is Paul Kelly

500

When did the Detroit Lions begin their tradition of playing on Thanksgiving?

What is 1934

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