Tradition
The sport Americans like to play and watch on Thanksgiving day.
What is football?
The loose red skin attached to the underside of a turkey’s beak.
What is a wattle?
The name of the colony the Pilgrims started in the USA.
Hint: Not the 1st colony in the US but the only Pilgrim colony.
What is the Plymouth Colony?
This key has legs and can't open a door.
What is a turkey?
This type of household hazard triples on Thanksgiving.
What is fires? There are more than three times the daily average calls
The natives brought this meat to the first Thanksgiving.
What is deer (venison)?
This U.S. president was the first to officially pardon a turkey AND make it an annual event.
Who is George H.W. Bush?
In 1989 he "presented a Presidential pardon" to a "fine tom turkey".
Partial Credit: John F Kennedy-1st to pardon a turkey in 1963-“A turkey was presented to President Kennedy with a sign around its neck reading "Good eating, Mr. President". Kennedy famously said, "We'll just let this one grow" and sent it back to the farm.”
The name for a running turkey.
What is fast-food?
America is not the only country with a Thanksgiving Day celebration. Although we celebrate on the 4th Thursday of the month of November, this is the time of the an annual Canadian holiday.
A.) The fourth Monday in September
B.) Answer: What is the second Monday in October?
C.) The first Monday in November
Green Bean casserole was invented by this company.
What is Campbell Soup?
The number of days the first Thanksgiving lasted.
What is 3 days?
Marilyn Monroe, Meryl Streep, Matt Damon and Taylor Swift all have this in common.
What is they are all descendants of passengers or crew on the Mayflower?
The oldest documented turkey trot still takes place every year in which city.
Hint: New York
A.) New York, New York
B.) Albany, New York
C.) Answer: Where is Buffalo, New York?
This state in the US produces the most cranberries.
What is Wisconsin?
The year of the first Thanksgiving.
When is 1621?
The best way to repair a broken pumpkin.
What is a pumpkin patch?
This now famous Christmas song was originally written in 1857 by James Pierpont for his Sunday school class to sing at a Thanksgiving celebration.
What is Jingle Bells or One Horse Open Sleigh?
According to the National Turkey Federation, roughly this many turkeys are consumed each Thanksgiving?
Hint: in the millions
What is about 45 to 46 million?
The president that made Thanksgiving a permanent national holiday.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
In November 1926, Vinnie Joyce from Nitta Yuma, Mississippi, sent President Coolidge this animal to serve for Thanksgiving dinner. But instead of putting it on the menu, Coolidge adopted this animal as a family pet and named it Rebecca.
What is a raccoon?