Holiday History
On November 26, 1789 this President calls for day of Thanksgiving.
Who was George Washington?
Pilgrims boarded this ship in 1620.
What is the Mayflower?
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have this Win-Lose ratio.
What is 7-4?
There were this many American Colonies established.
What is 13?
This former U.S President proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
In 1939, Thanksgiving was set to fall on this date leaving only 24 shopping days until Christmas.
What is November 30th?
There were this many American Colonies established.
What is 13?
This team has played the most Thanksgiving games.
Who are The Detroit Lions?
This Native American was a friend to the settlers and acted as an interpreter.
Who is Squanto?
This man was the first President to pardon a turkey.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
A group of Boston patriots published a pointedly anti-British proclamation for a “Day of public Thanksgiving” throughout the Massachusetts Colony to be held November 23, 1775 during this war.
What is the Revolutionary War?
Many settlers came to America in order to establish colonies where they had this freedom.
What is freedom of religion?
Which two NFL teams competed earlier today; the game aired on CBS.
Who are the Houston Texans and the Detroit Lions?
The Native Americans brought this meat to the First Thanksgiving.
What is venison?
This President officially made Thanksgiving the fourth Thursday of every November.
Who is Franklin Roosevelt?
This culture produced the idea of the cornucopia, the horn of plenty.
What is Greek?
The Southern Colonies were famous for growing indigo, cotton, rice and this cash crop.
What is tobacco?
There were no Thanksgiving games played from 1941-1944 due to this world crisis.
What is WWll?
This word describing the Native American people means originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native.
What is indigenous?
This President refused to celebrate Thanksgiving as a national holiday.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Three thousand years back, the Native Americans domesticated the wild turkey for this.
What are feathers?
These English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries regarded the Reformation of the Church of England under Elizabeth as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship.
Who were the Puritans?
During this year, the first-ever Thanksgiving NFL game played.
What is 1934?
The indigenous people of the Americas first domesticated the strain of maize which produces this common snack food.
What is popcorn?
In 1926, President Calvin Coolidge received a somewhat odd Thanksgiving gift which was this kind of animal.
What is a raccoon?