History of Thanksgiving
The fall harvest and giving thanks to one another.
What is the main Thanksgiving dish?
TURKEY!
What month does Canada celebrate Thanksgiving in (earlier than the US)?
October.
What iconic music event-broadcast every Thanksgiving morning features giant character balloons and marching bands?
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
What is the origin of the Thanksgiving Feast?
A pilgrim feast held in 1621.
List 3 common side foods for Thanksgiving.
Mashed potatoes, stuffing, casserole, gravy, cranberry sauce, dinner rolls.
What Indian holiday celebrates harvest, kites, and bonfires in January?
Makar Sankranti or Pongal.
Where do turkeys sometimes sleep? Yes, above the ground.
Trees.
What animated TV special features the Peanuts gang and Snoopy as chef?
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.
What is Thanksgiving for Native Americans?
A day of mourning.
How many turkeys are eaten a year in the U.S. for Thanksgiving (number within 7 million)?
46 million (39-53 million).
What is Japan's labor and harvest celebration, held in November, called?
Labor Thanksgiving Day.
The bald eagle.
In Friends, which character famously got a turkey stuck on their head?
Joey (or Chandler in flashback).
During the civil war in 1863, a president declared Thanksgiving a national holiday. Who was it?
Abraham Lincoln.
What was served at the first Thanksgiving feast?
Venison, seafood, and other fowl.
What African-American celebration was first widely observed in 1966 and is a harvest and cultural holiday?
Kwanzaa.
Turkeys have excellent vision, which full spectrum can they see, unlike humans?
Ultraviolet.
What 1993 movie starring John Candy features Thanksgiving travel chaos-including a missing rental car?
Planes, Trains, & Automobiles.
Which woman, editor of Godey's Lady's Book, campaigned for nearly 30 years to make Thanksgiving a national holiday?
Sarah Josepha Hale.
What sound does a female turkey make?
What is Korea's biggest harvest celebration, where families honor ancestors, called?
Chuseok.
A group of turkeys is called this, like an angry boss would call a room full of employees.
A rafter.
In How I Met Your Mother, the group calls Thanksgiving a chaotic mishmash word. What is this word?
Slapsgiving.