Thanksgiving Foods
The most popular main course on Thanksgiving.
What is turkey?
The day and month of the year on which we traditionally celebrate Thanksgiving
What is the fourth Thursday of November?
The name of the ship the Pilgrims boarded to start their journey to Plymouth, Massachusetts.
What is the Mayflower?
This Native American man surprised the Pilgrims by speaking English to them.
Who is Squanto (or Tisquanto)?
This president declared Thanksgiving a National Holiday.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Green Bean casserole was invented by Dorcas Reilly who was employed by this food label.
What is Campbell's Soup?
This is the name for a baby turkey.
What is a poult?
This was the main reason the Pilgrims felt they had to leave England.
What is religious persecution?
The Pilgrims and Native Americans feasted for this many days celebrating the first American Thanksgiving.
This president was the first to declare a "national day of Thanksgiving".
Who is George Washington?
This large root vegetable belongs to the morning glory family, although it's name would lead you to believe it is a nightshade.
What are sweet potatoes?
Many people run in this fun type of race on or near Thanksgiving morning.
What is a turkey trot?
This pilgrim was known for carrying a sword named Gideon.
Who is Miles Standish?
Native Americans helped teach this agricultural practice to the Pilgrims to ensure their crops would grow well.
What is burying fish?
In order to ensure more shopping days before Christmas, this president established Thanksgiving would be celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November.
Who is FDR?
The most popular alternative to turkey on Thanksgiving?
What is Ham?
This silly annual tradition occurs on Thanksgiving every year in the White House.
What is pardoning a turkey?
Tisquantum, friend of the Pilgrims, was born this year.
When is 1580?
The first Thanksgiving was celebrated here.
Where is Plymouth, Massachusetts?
What is a raccoon?
Costco sells this many pumpkin pies annually between September and December.
What is 6 million?
This is what you call the red, wobbly part of a turkey's neck.
What is a wattle?
Two ships with Pilgrim passengers originally set sail for America in 1620, but this one was leaky and unable to make the journey.
What is the Speedwell?
This tribe of Native Americans celebrated at the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims.
Who are the Wampanoag?
In an 1863 letter, this female newspaper editor urged the president to make Thanksgiving a national holiday.
Who is Sarah Hale?