Food
This meat is often served alongside turkey at Thanksgiving dinner.
What is ham?
This turkey-shaped bird is often eaten during Thanksgiving
What is a Turkey?
The Pilgrims sailed on this ship to North America in 1620.
What is the Mayflower?
This professional sport is most commonly watched on Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
What is football?
This classic Thanksgiving dessert is made from orange squash, cinnamon, and nutmeg
What is pumpkin pie?
A classic Thanksgiving side dish often cooked inside the Turkey
What is stuffing?
This bird is often associated with the noise "gobble gobble"
This U.S. President declared Thanksgiving a national holiday during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Many families and friends play this informal backyard football game on Thanksgiving morning.
What is a Turkey Bowl?
This dessert is so strongly linked to its main fruit that people often say something is “as American as...”
What is apple pie?
Alongside turkey and stuffing, this dish is one of the most common Thanksgiving sides in America.
What are Mashed Potatoes
Endangered in the early 1900s, at one point, there were only about 30,000 of these animals left in the world
What are Turkeys?
This North American crop (also called maize) was one of the “Three Sisters” grown by Native Americans along with beans and squash.
(Everyone can participate - you have to write down your answer and show it at the same time as everyone else)
What is Corn?
This NFL team has played a Thanksgiving Day game every year since 1934
Who are the Detroit Lions?
This desert gets its name from a nut that grows on trees in the southern United States.
What is pecan pie?
The number of Turkeys America eats on average every year (roughly)
What is 46 million?
Benjamin Franklin believed this animal should be the national bird of America instead of the Eagle
What is a Turkey?
(He actually didn't - he just thought the proposed drawing looked more like a Turkey than an eagle and was making a joke - he also once praised it as being “a much more respectable bird” than the bald eagle)
This current North House Sup plays 6 instruments
Who is Harlie?
This NFL team suffered the worst Thanksgiving loss in history, falling to the Detroit Lions 45–3 in 1983.
Who are the Steelers?
These are the positions Brian played in high school football
What are WR, Strong Safety
(Corner is also acceptable)
The number of calories in a typical Thanksgiving meal (within 15%)
What is 2000-4500 calories?
This subspecies of turkey was domesticated by the Aztecs and later brought to Europe by the Spanish before the Pilgrims brought it back to North America.
What is the South Mexican wild turkey?
This two-word nickname for the day after Thanksgiving became famous because it’s one of the busiest shopping days of the year
What is Black Friday?
This NFL team has hosted Thanksgiving games almost every year since 1966.
Who are the Dallas Cowboys?
This is Emma's favorite Thanksgiving dessert
What is pumpkin pie?