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The fourth Thursday in November
What is Thanksgiving Day?
100
Three days.
How long was the First Thanksgiving?
100
Fork
What utensil was not used by the Pilgrims to eat Thanksgiving dinner?
100
Canada also has Thanksgiving, on the second Monday in October.
What is true?
100
86 pounds.
What is the weight of the heaviest turkey in the Guinness Book of World Records?
200
280 Million
How many turkeys are eaten each year for Thanksgiving?
200
Cranberries, corn, and mashed potatoes.
What was not served during the First Thanksgiving?
200
President Harry Truman in 1947
Which President was the first to pardon a turkey and start this Thanksgiving tradition?
200
All turkeys can fly.
What is false? Wild turkeys can fly, domesticated turkeys cannot because they are too heavy.
200
Cranberries are _______ to see if they are ripe.
What is bounced? They should bounce 4 inches if they are ripe.
300
3,500
How many feathers does a full grown turkey have?
300
Wampanoag
Which Indian Tribe taught the Pilgrims how to cultivate the land and were invited to the Thanksgiving meal?
300
The Puritans, because they wanted to purify the teachings and ceremonies of the Church of England.
What was another name for the Pilgrims?
300
More than half the people in the Plymouth colony died the winter of 1621.
What is true?
300
Thanksgiving Day is the _______ traveled day of the year.
What is busiest or most?
400
88%
What is the estimation of Americans that eat turkey on Thanksgiving?
400
Virginia
What was the first southern state to adopt a Thanksgiving Day in 1855?
400
Mayflower
What is the name of the ship that carried the Pilgrims?
400
The first ever Thanksgiving was held in 1621 at Plymouth by the Pilgrims.
What is false. Thanksgiving feasts were part of the early religion in England before the Pilgrims ever came to the new world.
400
Swanson had an abundance of turkeys in 1953. A salesman told them they should package them with some sides. The dinner had turkey, cornbread, peas and apple cranberry cake cobbler.
What is First TV dinner.
500
A poult
What is a baby turkey called?
500
Snood
What is the loose skin under a male turkey's neck?
500
66 days.
What is the amount of time it took the mayflower to cross the Atlantic Ocean?
500
Turkeys can see behind themselves.
What is false? Turkeys can see 270 degrees.
500
Originally a Thanksgiving song composed for children to sing in a Boston Sunday School celebration.
What is Jingle Bells?
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