Thanksgiving History
What two groups of people celebrated the first Thanksgiving?
Settlers and Native Americans.
This popular American sport is played on Thanksgiving.
Football (The NFL)
This meat is the second most popular meat on Thanksgiving.
Ham
This beverage is the most popular around the holiday seasons. In particular Christmas.
eggnog
This is the name of the dinner held around Thanksgiving but NOT for family.
Friendsgiving.
This US president made Thanksgiving a national Holiday.
Abraham Lincoln
This year was the first year that the NFL held a game on Thanksgiving.
1920. The Detroit Spartans vs The Chicago Bears.
On average a Thanksgiving Turkey weighs this many pounds.
15lbs.
These presents are gifted on the 7th day of Christmas.
7 swans a swimming.
This day is statistically the most busy day for plumbers every year.
What famous bird was NOT served at the first Thanksgiving?
Turkey! Swan, goose, and duck were served instead!
On average a single person will consume this amount of calories at Thanksgiving dinner.
4500
This is the name of the classic Christmas Themed ballet.
Th Nutcracker.
This crazy number was the price of the most expensive Thanksgiving dinner.
181,000 at New Yorks Old Homestead Steak House.
This city of brotherly love has the oldest Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Philadelphia
This team has played in the most Thanksgiving day games in the NFL ( Hint they are a rival to the Bears.)
The Detroit Lions (83)
50 million on average.
This song is the best selling Christmas song of all time.
White Christmas by Bing Crosby
This is the most popular and televised Thanksgiving Parade in America.
The Macys day parade.
This is the name of the Native American tribe that celebrated the First Thanksgiving with the new settlers.
The Wampanoag
This team is the only team that has NOT played in a Thanksgiving NFL game. (Hint you would not want to pet this cat)
The Jacksonville Jags
On average Americans alone buy this crazy amount of pounds of turkey each year leading up to Thanksgiving.
365 MILLION pounds.
This Famous author wrote the classic Christmas story " A Christmas Carol"
Charles Dickens.
On average this amount of people attend the Macys Day parade.
3.5 million.