True or False
Turkey
Trivia
Thanksgiving Random
Random
100
Thanksgiving is celebrated only in the United States.
What is False?- Canada also celebrates Thanksgiving.
100
According to the Butterball corporation, they recommend that you thaw a wrapped turkey in the refrigerator how long per 4 pounds of bird.
What is one day per 4 lbs.?
100
What was the first department store to hold a Thanksgiving parade?
What is Gimbel's?
100
What was the original name for the pilgrims?
What are Puritans?
100
Every year, the president pardons a turkey and it goes to a public farm called Frying Pan Park, Herndon Virginia. Who was the first president to pardon a turkey?
Who is Harry Truman? in 1947
200
The Pilgrims took beer with them on their voyage.
What is True? John Alden was a cooper who made the barrels.
200
Butterball says that once the turkey is done, you should let it stand for 15 min before serving. Why?
What is to let the stuffing cool a bit before you take it out?
200
What is the name of the famous rock credited to where the pilgrims first landed?
What is Plymouth Rock?
200
What part of the turkey is saved and snapped as a superstitious good luck custom?
What is a wishbone?
200
How many turkeys are cooked each Thanksgiving in America?
What is 45 million?
300
The real Plymouth rock is cracked.
What is True? It cracked during the revolutionary war.
300
Butterball recommends that you cover the breast and the top of the drumsticks with aluminum foil when?
What is when it is 2/3 cooked so that they are not overcooked?
300
What was the name of the ship that pilgrims came over on?
What is the Mayflower?
300
In what year did the first Macy's Thanksgiving parade take place?
What is 1926?
300
In Canada, when do they celebrate Thanksgiving?
What is the 2nd Monday in October?
400
Historians have proven that the pilgrims didn't really wear those funny hats and buckles on their shoes.
What is True? No one knows how the pilgrim image began.
400
Butterball says that the best place to put the meat thermometer in the turkey is where?
What is the thigh?
400
Which president was the first to establish Thanksgiving as a legal national holiday to be held the 4th Thursday in November?
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
400
The first Thanksgiving in 1621 was believed to have lasted how many days?
What is 3 days?
400
Plymouth Rock is how big today?
What is the sixe of a car engine? - it has cracked 3 times over the years, each time getting smaller and smaller.
500
The following towns with "turkey" in their names are really towns in the U.S. Turkey, Texas, Turkey Creek Louisiana, Turkey, North Carolina and Turkey Feather, New Mexico.
What is False? There is no Turkey Feather, New Mexico- All others are correct.
500
Back in the early 1600s, the pilgrims didn't have which utensil to eat their Thanksgiving meal with?
What are forks? They had not been invented yet.
500
The term "cornucopia" means what?
What is horn of plenty?
500
Before being harvested and sold, an individual cranberry must bounce at least how many inches high to make sure they aren't too ripe?
What is 4 inches?
500
The word Turkey is said to have come from the Hebrew word "Tukki" which meant what?
What is big bird?
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