Pilgrims & Plymouth
Around the Table
Thanksgiving Fun Facts
Pop Culture Thanksgiving
Name That Fall Food
100

The Pilgrims started their colony in this state.

What is Massachusetts?

100

The fluffy potato dish usually topped with gravy.

What are mashed potatoes?

100

Americans eat about 46 million of these each Thanksgiving.  

What are turkeys?

100

This long-running cartoon family has a famous Thanksgiving episode featuring a giant balloon mishap.

Who are The Simpsons?

100

This orange vegetable is used in pies and soups.  

What is pumpkin?

200

The Pilgrims left this country seeking religious freedom.

What is England?

200

A pie made with nuts and sticky filling, popular in the South.

What is pecan pie?

200

The first Thanksgiving lasted this many days.

What is three days?

200

This TV show has the iconic “Turkey on the Head” Thanksgiving scene.

What is Friends?

200

The fruit that grows on vines and comes in green, red, and purple varieties.

What are grapes?

300

Their first winter was so harsh that only about this fraction survived.

What is half?

300

A root vegetable often served candied or mashed with marshmallows.

What is a sweet potato?

300

The busiest day of the year for U.S. travel.

What is the day before Thanksgiving?

300

Charlie Brown’s Thanksgiving special features this character refusing to eat anything but toast and popcorn.

Who is Snoopy?

300

Fall fruit often baked into crisps and pies and paired with cinnamon.

What are apples?

400

The Pilgrims’ leader and governor for many years.

Who is William Bradford?

400

A popular bread often baked in a cast-iron skillet.

What is cornbread?

400

Turkeys can run up to this many miles per hour.

What is 20 mph?

400

This marching band–filled parade has been broadcast on TV since 1948.

What is the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade?

400

These small orange fruits taste sweet and are often dried.

What are apricots?

500

The Wampanoag guide who helped the Pilgrims grow food.

Who is Squanto?

500

A tart fruit often used in relishes and chutneys on Thanksgiving.

What is cranberry?

500

This founding father wanted the turkey to be the national bird.

Who is Benjamin Franklin?

500

In A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, this character makes the meal of popcorn, jelly beans, and pretzels.

Who is Snoopy?

500

This winter squash has a bell shape and sweet orange flesh.

What is butternut squash?

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