Music
This Swedish pop group won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with “Waterloo.”
Who is ABBA?
This actor voiced Woody in Toy Story.
Who is Tom Hanks?
What is skin?
My core interests are: anglophone literatures since 1960, contemporary Danish literature, feminist theory, women's writings, feminised work, reproductive labour, mothering, emotional labour/mental load
Who is Ida Aaskov Dolmer?
This fruit, native to North America, is often made into a sauce served with turkey.
What are cranberries?
This singer performed the James Bond theme Skyfall.
Who is Adele?
In Friends, this character famously danced with a turkey on their head.
Who is Monica?
A Danish Nobel prize winner known for his model of the atom and contributions to quantum theory.
Who is Niels Bohr?
In 2020, my article entitled, "Human Rights, the Family and the Bildungsroman in Goretti Kyomuhendo's Waiting: A Novel of Uganda at War" was published.
Who is Emily J. Hogg?
This sport has been played on Thanksgiving Day since 1876, with the Detroit Lions hosting annually since 1934.
What is American football?
This composer’s Symphony No. 9 includes the famous “Ode to Joy” and was completed after he had gone deaf.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
This 2017 film won Best Picture after a mix-up with La La Land.
What is Moonlight?
I am the closest planet to the Sun.
Who is Mercury?
I was born in 1972 in Hejls. I have been a visiting scholar at both Johns Hopkins University (2000) and the State University of New York (2004). I attended SDU from 1992-1998.
Who is Peter Simonsen?
This U.S. president proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863, during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This band’s album Rumours became one of the best-selling records of all time.
Who is Fleetwood Mac?
This 2009 James Cameron film became the highest-grossing film at the time.
What is Avatar?
I am the temperature in Fahrenheit at which water freezes.
What is 32 degrees F?
SDU opened its doors for the first time in this year.
When was 1966?
This state produces the most turkeys in the United States each year.
Hint: Home of the "Twin Cities" (St. Paul and a city I won't name)
What is Minnesota?
This disco group of brothers made “Stayin’ Alive” a worldwide hit in 1977.
The Bee Gees
This iconic early 2000s tv series had many a Thanksgiving themed episode. (show picture)
What is Gilmore Girls?
This bird has no teeth; instead, it uses its beak, gizzard, and swallowed stones called gastroliths to grind food.
What is a turkey?
Which organization is currently hosting the (less fun) Thanksgiving dinner for American Studies at SDU?
Who is DSAAS? (Danish Student Association for American Studies)
This Founding Father once suggested that the turkey would be a more respectable national bird for the United States than the bald eagle.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?