Thanksgiving History
How many days was the original Thanksgiving?
3
This founding father wanted the Turkey to be the national bird instead of the eagle.
Ben Franklin
In what year was the Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade started?
1920
Campbell’s test kitchen supervisor Dorcas Reilly was responsible for developing recipes for the backs of soup cans in the 1950s. Her most successful dish was this Thanksgiving side dish.
Green Bean Casserole
Which football team plays every Thanksgiving.
Detroit Lions
The first Thanksgiving didn't have turkey but instead, they ate this underwater creature.
Lobster
What is a baby Turkey called?
Turklette
The parade feels like it stretches throughout the city but in reality, the parade's full length is only this many miles?
1.4 miles
While us up here in the North most call it Stuffing, down south most call it by this frankly terrible name.
Dressing
While this is an unusual year for black Friday shopping, you will at least save yourself from a few fistfights at THIS store, which is the site of 57.1 percent of Black Friday incidents and all-out brawls from around the country.
Wal-Mart
Which president declared Thanksgiving a national Holiday?
Ol' Abe-y Lincs
What is the average lifespan for a turkey?
3-4 years
GEOGRAPHY TIME: Four of the best viewing spots to watch the parade are the south side of Eakins Oval, in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway near Logan Circle, at the steps of The Franklin Institute, OR at this park.
LOVE Park/Dilworth Park
While the turducken may seem like a modern Thanksgiving monstrosity, its origins actually predate the current version of the holiday. The 1774 book The Art of Cookery contains the earliest known instructions for cooking a bird within a bird. But instead of a chicken and a duck inside a turkey, the recipe calls for a pigeon, partridge, fowl, and this honking big bird to be stuffed inside the turkey.
Goose
Which city coined the phrase Black Friday?
Philadelphia, go us we started the nonsense
Which early President refused to make Thanksgiving a holiday because he believed it shouldn't be associated with the country.
Thomas Jefferson
50/50 question! Can Turkey's fly?
Yes
Over the years the parade has had many hosts from the most recent Dunkin Donuts, to Ikea and Boscov's BUT who was the first sponsor?
Gimbels
In order to give Cranberry Sauce it's iconic shape, manufacturers use this unorthodox topsy-turvey process.
They can it upside down
The concept of American football games being played on Thanksgiving Day dates back to 1876, shortly after the game had been invented, as it was a day that most people had off from work. In that year, the college football teams at Yale and This other IVY League school began an annual tradition of playing each other on Thanksgiving Day.
Princeton
Writer and editor Sarah Josepha Hale, known as the mother of Thanksgiving, convinced President Abraham Lincoln to officially declare Thanksgiving a national holiday, after three decades of persistent lobbying. However, she is more widely known for having written a very popular children's song about a young shepherd, what is the song?
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Only male Turkeys "Gobble" and it is used mostly to attract hens, but what are male turkey's called? (hint: it's a very normal man's name)
Toms
The parade was around a few decades before this holiday staple was introduced in 1960. Thanks to department stores sponsoring the parade and wanting to make some holiday sales.
Santa!
Mashed potatoes are extremely versatile. You can eat them, sculpt with them, and at some American festivals such as The Potato Blossom Festival in Maine, Potato Day in South Dakota, and the Potato Days festival in Minnesota all include this unusual activity.
Mashed Potato Wrestling
This department store was the first to advertise post-Thanksgiving shopping in 1924, during their Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York.
Macy's