International Celebrations
Thanksgiving in this country is celebrated on the second Monday in October and is a legal holiday in all of its 13 provinces and territories except Nova Scotia and New Brunswick...
What is Canada?
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving was a CBS television special which premiered on November 20 1973 and was based on characters from this Charles Schultz comic strip...
What is Peanuts?
What crunchy ingredients usually tops green bean casserole?
What is French fried onions?
The first Thanksgiving occurred in the Plymouth settlement on the eastern shores of what is now this state...
What is Massachusetts?
This is the term for male turkeys...
What are "toms" or "gobblers"?
The week-long celebration of Erntedankfest, translated to English as "harvest thanks festival", is most commonly held in the small farmlands and churches of the Rhineland in this country...
What is Germany?
This 1987 road trip comedy starring John Candy and Steve Martin takes place over the three days leading up to Thanksgiving as they contend with America's infuriatingly unreliable transportation systems in order to get home in time to see their families for the holiday...
What is Planes, Trains, and Automobiles?
This process refers to soaking a turkey in a saltwater solution before cooking it...
What is brining?
This is year in which it occurred...
(Correct answer has to be within 10 years)
What is 1621?
The earliest turkeys evolved approximately 20 million years ago and are native to this continent...
What is North America?
This country's Labor Thanksgiving Day is rooted in the customary practices of the Shinto religion and has been held annually on November 23rd for the past 70+ years, originating during the period of its occupation by American forces...
What is Japan?
In the 1993 black comedy film Addams Family Values, this daughter of Gomez and Morticia Addams is cast as Pocahontas in the school play titled "A Turkey Named Brotherhood"...
Who is Wednesday?
In 1995, this popular Thanksgiving vegetable was the first to be grown in outer space...
What is a potato?
While the Pilgrims ultimately settled in Plymouth to the west, their initial landing point was in this modern town located on the northernmost tip of Cape Cod...
What is Provincetown?
These are the four parts that turkey giblets are primarily comprised of...
(Provide a minimum of three for a correct response)
What are the gizzard, heart, liver, and neck?
"Cyber Monday" has become popularized in dozens of nations across the world. Known as "Click Frenzy" in this English-speaking nation that's a 19-hour flight away from the United States's western coast, internet traffic has historically caused system-wide crashes...
What is Australia?
This 2019 animated movie holds the box office record for the highest-grossing weekend in Thanksgiving history...
This is the internal temperature a turkey should be cooked to for safe eating...
(Correct answer has to be within 5 degrees)
What is 165 degrees Fahrenheit?
The trans-Atlantic ship named the Mayflower which landed in Plymouth had this many passengers...
(Correct responses have to be within 15)
What is 102?
Benjamin Franklin never proposed the turkey as a symbol for America, but he did once praise it as being “a much more respectable bird” than this famous bird of prey...
What is a bald eagle?
In the 1969 film "Alice's Restaurant", the main protagonist played by musician Arlo Guthrie acts homicidal as an attempt to dodge the draft for this war after being arrested on Thanksgiving Day on charges of littering...
What is the Vietnam War?
This Midwestern state's bogs produce the most cranberries in the nation...
What is Wisconsin?
This notable Native American served as an interpreter between the Pilgrims and Native Americans...
Who is Squanto?
This is the term for a baby domestic turkey...
What is a poult?