The First Thanksgiving
This is how long the first Thanksgiving celebration lasted.
What is three days?
This is the first president to pardon a turkey.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
In this year, the first Thanksgiving football game was played.
What is 1876?
This is how many calories, on average, are consumed, per person, at Thanksgiving dinner.
This is how many Americans prefer Thanksgiving leftovers to Thanksgiving dinner.
What is about 80%?
These are the type of meats likely served at the first Thanksgiving celebration - NOT TURKEY!
What are venison, swan, duck and goose?
This president made turkey pardoning an annual event.
Who is George H.W. Bush?
This is the year that the first NFL Thanksgiving football game was played.
What is 1920?
This is how much did the world's most expensive Thanksgiving dinner on record cost.
What is $150,000 at New York City's Old Homestead Steakhouse?
Black Friday is the biggest day of the year for this trade profession.
What is plumbing?
These are the seafoods likely served at the first Thanksgiving celebration.
What are Lobster, oysters, fish and possibly eel?
This was the first president to receive a ceremonial Thanksgiving turkey.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
As of 2021, this NFL team has had the most wins on Thanksgiving, as well as the most losses.
Who are the Detroit Lions?
(37 wins and 43 losses)
This is how many turkeys are prepared for Thanksgiving in America each year.
What is approximately 46 million.
Black Friday isn't the only holiday the day after Thanksgiving. This is the other one.
What is Native American Heritage Day?
This is the number of women at the first Thanksgiving celebration.
What is five?
This president made Thanksgiving an annual national holiday.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
He holds the record for most touchdowns during a Thanksgiving game with 6 in 1929.
Who is Ernie Nevers?
This is about how many pumpkin pies are consumed every Thanksgiving.
What is about 50 million?
Black Friday is not the busiest shopping day of the year. This day is!
What is the Saturday before Christmas?
This is the month that the first Thanksgiving celebration likely took place.
What is September?
This president first ordered a national day of Thanksgiving.
Who is George Washington?
Other than the Cowboys who have done it three times, this is the only other team to win a Thanksgiving day game, and the Super Bowl in the same season.
Who are the Dolphins?
In this year, green bean casserole was introduced to Thanksgiving dinners.
What is 1955?
This is the reason the day after Thanksgiving was named "Black Friday."
What is back in the 1960s, when account books were still kept using pen and ink and the day's sales helped move stores out of the "red" (losses) and into the "black" (profits)?