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100

This thickening agent is commonly used to make gravy from turkey drippings.

What is flour (or cornstarch)?

100

What year was the first Thanksgiving celebration in the colonies?

When is 1621?

100

This movie is subject to great debate whether it should be watched on Halloween or Christmas. 

What is The Nightmare Before Christmas?

100

This day marks the unofficial beginning of the holiday shopping season.

What is Black Friday?

100

This popular fall drink combines espresso, milk, and pumpkin-flavored syrup.

What is a PSL?

200

This canned product was introduced in 1912 and helped make a berry sauce into a Thanksgiving staple.

What is canned cranberry sauce?

200

Approximately this percentage of the Wampanoag population died during epidemics between 1616 and 1619, before the famous 1621 harvest feast.

What is 75%?

200

In the Friends Thanksgiving episodes, this character famously gets a turkey stuck on their head.

Who is Monica Geller?

200

This is the most common distance in MILES for an annual Thanksgiving morning Turkey Trot.

What is 3.1 miles?

200

This common injury sends people to the ER during pumpkin-carving season, often caused by a knife slipping.

What is a hand or finger laceration?

300

This vegetable casserole is often topped with crispy fried onions.

What is green bean casserole?

300

his 1675–1676 conflict between English colonists and a Native American confederation led to widespread destruction of Indigenous communities in New England.

What is King Philip’s War?

300

In It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, which character spends Halloween waiting for the Great Pumpkin?

Who is Linus?

300

Beyond the food and festivities, this is the central purpose of Thanksgiving as a national holiday.

What to express gratitude and reflect on the blessings of the past year. 

30 SECOND SPEED GRATITUDE

300

This astronomical event marks the beginning of fall in the Northern Hemisphere, when day and night are approximately equal in length.

What is the autumnal equinox?

400

This amino acid found in turkey is often blamed for Thanksgiving food comas.

What is tryptophan?

400

This president moved Thanksgiving up a week in 1939 to lengthen the Christmas shopping season.

Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?

400

In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, what creature attacks the Hogwarts Halloween feast?

What is a troll?

400

These TWO teams have played each Thanksgiving since 1966.

Who are the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys?

400

This is the name of the orange-and-black butterfly that migrates south in the fall.

What is a monarch butterfly?


500

This chemical reaction between amino acids and reducing sugars gives roasted turkey skin its characteristic browned flavor.

What is the Maillard reaction?

500

Lincoln officially established Thanksgiving as a national holiday in this year. BONUS: The celebration was this many days.

What is 1863? What is 3 days?

500

What is the name of the Addams family's disembodied hand?

Who is Thing?

500

What is the name of the annual parade that has been held in New York City since 1924?

What is the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade?

500

Deep-frying a frozen or partially frozen turkey can cause this dramatic and dangerous reaction when ice turns to steam and displaces hot oil.

What is an oil overflow that often causes fire?