Much Ado About Turkeys
Parades
Indians & Pilgrims
The 1st Feast
Thanksgiving Potpourri
100
This was the cause of death for turkeys in fields near the Air Force test area over which the sound barrier was broken.
What is a heart attack?
100
This was the first department store to hold a Thanksgiving Day parade.
What is Gimbel's?
100
This tribe of Indians were at the Thanksgiving feast.
What is Wampanoag tribe?
100
The first Thanksgiving in 1621 was believed to have lasted this many days
What is 3 days?
100
Sarah Josepha Hale, a key player in getting Thanksgiving officially recognized as a nation holiday, is the author of this cherished children's song.
What is "Mary Had a Little Lamb"?
200
A turkey under 16 weeks of age is called this.
What is a fryer?
200
The first Macy’s Thanksgiving parade took place in this year.
What is 1924?
200
He was the Chief at the first Thanksgiving feast
Who is Massasoit?
200
The pilgrims didn't have this common eating utensil.
What is a fork?
200
The Mayflower was not built to be a transportation ship for people. This was the original purpose of the Mayflower.
What is a merchant ship to carry wine?
300
Turkeys have approximately 3,400 of these.
What are feathers?
300
The parade was interrupted from 1942 - 1944 because this material was scarce.
What is rubber?
300
This was the original name for the pilgrims.
What is the Puritans or Separatists?
300
This source of protien, not normally eaten today at Thanksgivng, was served at the first Thanksgiving.
What is fish?
300
This is now the size of a car engine.
What is Plymouth Rock?
400
This dance was named for the short, jerky steps a turkey makes
What is the Turkey Trot?
400
In 1945 this device enlarged the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade audience.
What is the television?
400
This percentage of Pilgrims that sailed to America survived to celebrate Thanksgiving.
What is 50%?
400
While the Pilgrims may have been familiar with cranberries by the first Thanksgiving, they would not have made any sauces with them because this ingredient had been depleted by Thanksgiving.
What is sugar?
400
This team played in the first professional Thanksgiving football game in 1934.
Who were the Detriot Lions or the Chicago Bears?
500
This sensory field is about 270 degrees for a Turkey
What is vision?
500
Felix the Cat
What was the first balloon character in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
500
Squanto assisted the Indians and Pilgrims by providing this much needed service.
What is translation, he was the interpreter?
500
Corn was likely removed from the cob and turned into this for the first feast.
What is cornmeal?
500
Before being harvested and sold, an individual cranberry must bounce this many inches high to ensure it is not too ripe
What is 4 inches?