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100
The most popular main dish served and eaten on thanksgiving
What is turkey?
100
This celebration is when you celebrate Thanksgiving with friends rather than family
What is Friendsgiving?
100
This is the name of the ship the Pilgrims boarded to start their journey to Plymouth, Massachusetts
What is the Mayflower?
100
Both the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and America’s Thanksgiving Parade conclude with the arrival of this float
What/Who is Santa Claus?
100
No Thanksgiving football games were played during 1941 to 1944 because of this
What is World War II?
200
This U.S. state produces the most sweet potatoes?
a) North Carolina
b) South Carolina
c) Georgia
What is North Carolina
200
This is the busiest day of the year for plumbers
What is the day after Thanksgiving?
200
This food was not eaten by the colonists and Native Americans at the first Thanksgiving
What is a turkey?
200
This Sesame Street character is made of turkey feathers
Who is Big Bird?
Big Bird's feathers are white turkey feathers, dyed yellow. There are approximately 4,000 feathers on the puppet.
200
This NFL football Franchise has the most Thanksgiving games played
Who are the Detroit Lions?
300
This utensil was not used by the Pilgrims to eat Thanksgiving dinner
a) knife
b) fork
c) spoon
What is a fork?
300
Butterball receives on average this many calls each year in regards to questions about cooking a turkey
a) under 20,000
b) over 2 million
c) over 100,000
What is over 100,000?
300
This product owes its existence to Thanksgiving
a) T.V. Dinner
b) Recliner
c) Hula Hoop
d) Butter
What is a T.V. dinner?
In 1953, someone at Swanson misjudged the number of frozen turkeys it would sell that Thanksgiving -- by 26 TONS! So they came up with a brilliant plan: to slice up the meat and repackage with some trimmings on the side. And so the first TV dinner was born!
300
The loose red skin attached to the underside of a turkey’s beak
What is the wattle?
300
This part of a turkey is typically saved to pull apart with someone and making a wish
What is a wishbone?
Think of a wish you want to come true, and if you end up with the larger half it will come true.
400
People spend this much on canned cranberry sauce per year
What is $42 million
400
People consume this many turkeys every year at Thanksgiving?
a) 46,000
b) 4.6 million
c) 46 million
d) 460 million
What is 46 million?
400
This President first ordered a national day of Thanksgiving
Who is George Washington?
400
This founding father who thought the turkey should be the national bird of the United States
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
400
The only active NFL franchise to have never played on Thanksgiving
Who are the Jacksonville Jaguars?
500
People consume this many calories on average at Thanksgiving dinner
What is 4,500 calories?
500
This famous Christmas song was originally written for Thanksgiving
What is Jingle Bells?
500
This first Thanksgiving lasted this many days
What is 3 days?
500
The name of a baby turkey
What is a poult?
500
This famous soup company created the green bean casserole
What is Campbells?