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The most popular main course served on Thanksgiving Day.
What is turkey?
100
The day after Thanksgiving as referred to by shoppers.
What is Black Friday?
100
The orange vegetable commonly used as a symbol of Thanksgiving.
What is pumpkin?
100
The name of the ship the Pilgrims boarded to start their journey to Plymouth, Massachusetts.
What is the Mayflower?
100
This food commonly served at Thanksgiving was NOT served at the first Thanksgiving.
What is corn on the cob?
100
How do you say 'sweet potato' in American English?
Yam
100
What is the busiest day for plumbers?
The day after Thanksgiving
200
The most popular Thanksgiving dessert.
What is Pumpkin Pie?
200
The day and month of the year on which we traditionally celebrate Thanksgiving
What is the fourth Thursday of November?
200
The indigenous people of North America who are a common symbol of Thanksgiving.
Who are the Native Americans?
(Wampanoag tribe)
200
The number of women who prepared and then attended the first Thanksgiving meal.
What is four?
200
The month of the year that the Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving Day.
What is October?
200
What is a female turkey called?
A Hen
200
Which type of apple is traditionally used in an apple pie?
Granny Smith
300
The red fruit often served alongside turkey for Thanksgiving dinner
What are cranberries?
300
The part of the turkey that two people pull apart to see if their wish will be granted.
What is the wishbone?
300
The English Separatists who came to the United States in 1620.
Who were the Pilgrims?
300
The reason the Pilgrims felt they had to leave England.
What is religious persecution?
The Pilgrims were Separatists, America’s Calvinist Protestants, who rejected the institutional Church of England. They believed that the worship of God must originate in the inner man, and that corporate forms of worship prescribed by man interfered with the establishment of a true relationship with God. The Separatists used the term “church” to refer to the people, the Body of Christ, not to a building or institution.
300
The speed that turkeys can run when scared
What is 20mph?
300
True or False: The first Thanksgiving took place in September
True
300
Thanksgiving football games were not played in the years 1941 to 1944 because of this worldwide event happening during this period of time.
What is World War II?
400
The vegan, vegetarian, non meat version of turkey.
What is a tofurky?
400
The most popular alternative to turkey on Thanksgiving.
What is ham?
400
A bird large enough to feed a family which is native to North America
What is a wild turkey?
400
The year of the first Thanksgiving.
What is 1621?
400
The name of the Native American who spoke English and was especially helpful to the Pilgrims.
Who is Squanto?
400
True of False: Turkeys are color blind
False
400
How long was the Pilgrim's voyage from England to Massachusetts?
66 Days
500
The best way to tell if a cranberry is ripe.
What is see if it bounces?
500
A race many people run on Thanksgiving morning.
What is a turkey trot?
500
The conical-shaped basket that is generally filled with fruits and vegetables.
What is a cornucopia?
500
The number of days the first Thanksgiving celebration lasted.
What is three days?
500
This is where Thanksgiving ranks among America's favorite holidays.
What is #2?
1-4 respectively: Christmas, Thanksgiving, Mother's Day, Easter
500
Which Christmas song was originally written for Thanksgiving?
Jingle Bells
500
What is a male turkey called?
Tom
600
If you eat too much of these (2) vegetables, you could turn orange!
Sweet Potatoes and Carrots
600
The number of turkeys are consumed every year at Thanksgiving.
What is 46 million?
Any guess within 5 million counts as correct!
600
The type of meat the native Americans brought to the first Thanksgiving.
What is deer (venison)?
600
This is what caused about one half of the Pilgrim population to die off in their first year living in New England.
What is sickness and starvation?
But through prayer and hard work, with the assistance of their Indian friends, the Pilgrims reaped a rich harvest in the summer of 1621.
600
The loose red skin attached to the underside of a turkey’s beak.
What is the wattle?
600
Daily double The name of the president who proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
600
Which character's float popped during the 1997 Macy's Parade?
Barney