The year that 46 million turkeys were eaten on Thanksgiving.
When was 2012?
100
Originally featured animals from the Central Park Zoo, and no balloons.
What is the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
100
It used to be called a "Crane Berry" because it's flowering fruit bears a resemblance to the bird.
What is a cranberry?
100
The president that tried to move Thanksgiving back a week to quicken pre-holiday shopping because of the Great Depression.
Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
200
The Pilgrims- Earth tones, buckles were not yet in fashion.
The Native Americans- not loin cloths, it was too cold.
What did they wear at the First Thanksgiving?
200
To get to the other side
Why did the turkey cross the road?
200
The first character to be featured as a balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Who was Felix The Cat?
200
A thanksgiving dish with two names: one for when it's put inside the turkey, and one for when it's made solely as a side dish.
What is stuffing/dressing?
200
The president that made Thanksgiving a national holiday
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
300
Goose or duck (not turkey), seafood, pumpkin, corn, nuts, and possibly pigeon or swan.
What did they eat at the First Thanksgiving?
300
It doesn't actually make you sleepy.
What is Turkey?
300
The football team that has played on Thanksgiving every year since 1934, except for one year during WW2.
What is the Detroit Lions?
300
This ingredient in a popular Thanksgiving pie is usually actually Butternut Squash.
What is canned pumpkin?
300
The number of days that the first Thanksgiving is said to have lasted.
What is three days?
400
The place that is usually credited to being the spot of the first Thanksgiving.
What is Plymouth Rock?
400
The state that produces the most turkeys.
What is Minnesota?
400
The first Thanksgiving Day Parade. (hint: not Macy's)
What is the Gimbels Thanksgiving Day Parade
400
A popular Thanksgiving side that was created by Campbell's soup.
What is green bean casserole?
400
1621
What year was the first Thanksgiving?
500
The tribe that shared a meal with the Pilgrims at the First Thanksgiving.
What is the Wampanoag Tribe?
500
This president is the reason we now call male turkeys "Tom Turkeys"
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
The story goes: Ben Franklin was really mad at Thomas Jefferson for suggesting to use the turkey as the national bird, so he mockingly called it the "Tom Turkey" after Jefferson, and the name stuck.
500
1876
What is the year of the first Thanksgiving football game?
500
In the 17th century, this popular Thanksgiving food was known as "forcemeat."
What is stuffing?
500
A magazine editor who spent 17 years campaigning to make Thanksgiving a national holiday, and also wrote "Mary had a Little Lamb."