History & Pilgrims
This ship brought the Pilgrims to America in 1620.
What is the Mayflower?
Male turkeys are often called a Tom or this five-letter word that sounds like a noise they make.
What is a gobbler?
The popular name for a baked dish of cubed bread and seasonings traditionally cooked inside the turkey.
What is stuffing?
This major New York City department store hosts the famous annual Thanksgiving Day Parade.
What is Macy's?
This is what you call a running turkey.
What is fast food?
This Native American tribe celebrated the first Thanksgiving harvest feast with the Pilgrims in 1621.
Who are the Wampanoag?
This red, fleshy appendage hangs over the turkey's beak and changes color when the bird is excited.
What is a snood?
This small, tart berry is used to make a classic Thanksgiving sauce or relish.
What are cranberries?
These two NFL teams traditionally play a home game every Thanksgiving Day.
Who are the Detroit Lions and the Dallas Cowboys?
This is the best song to play while you're basting the bird.
What is "All About That Baste"?
This U.S. President declared Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863, during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The official internal temperature that a turkey should reach in the thickest part of the thigh to be safe to eat.
What is 165 degrees Fahrenheit?
This state is the top turkey-producing state in the United States, raising tens of millions of birds each year.
What is Minnesota?
This Peanuts character is the chef in A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.
Who is Snoopy?
You should never tell a turkey this, because they might get suspicious.
What is a secret? (Because they'll "gobble" it up)
This influential woman, an editor of Godey's Lady's Book, campaigned for decades to make Thanksgiving a national holiday.
Who is Sarah Josepha Hale?
Wild turkeys can fly for short distances, but most domestic turkeys are too heavy, due to this selective breeding for size and meat.
What is selective breeding?
This classic 1955 side dish was invented by Dorcas Reilly of the Campbell Soup Company, using condensed mushroom soup.
What is green bean casserole?
The U.S. President who made the "turkey pardon" an annual tradition, formally pardoning a bird instead of just receiving it.
Who is George H.W. Bush?
This is the first thing a turkey says when it sees the hunter.
What is "Quack, quack!"?
Historians suggest the first Thanksgiving feast featured venison, fowl (ducks, geese, and swans), and seafood, but likely not this utensil.
What is a fork?
What a group of turkeys is called, besides a flock.
What is a rafter?
What movie is based off of taking turkeys off the menu(While going back in time)?
Free Birds
This Founding Father suggested the turkey as the national bird of the United States, calling it a "Bird of Courage."
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The one side of a turkey that always has the most feathers.
What is the outside?