Thanksgiving was first celebrated here, a town in Massachusetts.
What is Plymouth?
100
This tasty berry was likely not eaten at the first Thanksgiving. However, today it is a popular part of the feast and is eaten in a variety of ways, including as juice.
What is the cranberry?
100
This is the name of the ship the Pilgrims traveled on.
What is the Mayflower?
100
This is the day of the week that Thanksgiving always fall on.
What is Thursday?
100
This is the sports event that many watch on Thanksgiving.
What is football?
200
This Native American became a friend of the Pilgrims and lived with them at the Plymouth Colony.
Who is Squanto?
200
This is the common name for the orange vegetables served at Thanksgiving, which are also known as sweet potatoes.
What are yams?
200
This is the country the Pilgrims came from.
What is England?
200
This is the percentage of American families that eat turkeys on Thanksgiving (within 5%).
What is 88%?
200
This is when Canada celebrates Thanksgiving.
What is the second Monday of October?
300
This is the date of this year's Thanksgiving.
What is November 27, 2014.
300
This was Ben Franklin's favorite Thanksgiving item. He had wanted this bird to be named our National bird.
What is the turkey?
300
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What is Jingle Bells?
300
This is the parade that takes place in New York that many watch on Thanksgiving.
What is the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
300
The Native Americans who were invited to the first Thanksgiving were from this tribe.
What is Wampanoag?
400
This is how long the first Thanksgiving feast lasted.
What is three days?
400
This is the top turkey producing state.
What is Minnesota? (Minnesota is estimated to produce 46.5 million this year.)
400
This is how long it took the Pilgrims to cross the ocean to the new world.
What is two months?
400
This is the number of pounds of turkey Americans eat each year on Thanksgiving (cumulative).
What is 675 million pounds?
400
This was the captain of the Mayflower.
Who was Christopher Jones?
500
In 1863, this U.S. president made Thanksgiving a national holiday.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
500
This vegetable's scientific name is Phaseolus Vulgaris. It is part of the "three sisters" group of vegetables, the first two of which are corn qnd squash.
What are green beans?
500
This is the year of the first Thanksgiving.
What is 1621?
500
This is what the day after Thanksgiving is called.
What is Black Friday?
500
This is the reason that the U.S. Congress passed a resolution making Thanksgiving Day the fourth Thursday in November rather than the last in 1941.
What is to extend the holiday shopping season to boost the economy?