Food
The Pilgrims
Traditions
Media
Miscellaneous
100

This is likely the most popular Thanksgiving dessert.

What is Pumpkin Pie?

100

This document established a framework for self-governance, with the signers agreeing to form a "civil body politic" to create and follow laws for the good of the colony.

What is the Mayflower Compact?

100

About 3.5 million people attend this Thanksgiving Day event.

What is the Macy's Parade?

100

This popular TV show has a Thanksgiving episode where a character gets a turkey stuck on their head.

What is Friends?

100

This sport uses the term "turkey" in its scoring.

What is bowling?

200

This food was commonly used for dyes and medicine before becoming a Thanksgiving staple.

What are cranberries?

200

Before traveling to the New World, the pilgrims first attempted a new life in this country.

What is the Netherlands?

200

These two NFL teams have played a game on Thanksgiving Day since 1966.

Who are the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys?

200

This classic comedy about two mismatched travelers trying to make it home for Thanksgiving.

What is "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles"?

200

The name for this large shopping day wasn't widely used until the 1980s.

What is Black Friday?

300

This spice, derived from the dried seed of a tropical fruit, is often paired with cinnamon and cloves in Thanksgiving desserts.

What is nutmeg?

300

The Pilgrims didn't call themselves Pilgrims, but instead called themselves this.

What are the Separatists?

300

This city hosted the first Thanksgiving Day parade.

What is Philadelphia?

300

This animated classic made its TV debut in 1973.

What is "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving?"

300

This popular popstar and Pennsylvania native is a descendant of Richard Warren, one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact.

Who is Taylor Swift?

400

This state raises the most turkeys.

What is Minnesota?

400

The Pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving with this Native American tribe.

What are the Wampanoag?

400

This U.S. president was the first to officially pardon a turkey.

Who is George H.W. Bush?

400

This 18-minute song by Arlo Guthrie has become a Thanksgiving tradition for many listeners.

What is "Alice's Restaraunt"?

400

In 1995, this popular Thanksgiving vegetable was the first to be grown in space.

What is the potato?

500

This service, which answers over 100,000 calls during the holiday season, helps home cooks with turkey-related questions.

What is the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line?

500

The First Thanksgiving was held in this year.

What is 1621?

500

This Thanksgiving tradition was first hosted in 1896 by the local YMCA in Buffalo, NY.

What is a Turkey Trot?

500

This Christmas carol was originally written for a Thanksgiving service at his church in Medford, Massachusetts.

What is "Jingle Bells"?

500

This African country, a former U.S. territory, celebrates Thanksgiving.

What is Liberia?