Thanksgiving Foods
The most popular main course on Thanksgiving.
What is Turkey?
The name of the service that has been available for 40 years to answer consumer questions about cooking turkey.
Butterball Turkey Talk-Line
The orange vegetable commonly used as a symbol of Thanksgiving.
What is a pumpkin?
What food was consumed in the at Adrienne's request each year erev Thanksgiving Day.
What is Pizza?
Who hosted/claimed Family Thanksgiving as "her" family holiday.
Who is Adrienne Lupatkin?
This President first ordered a national day of Thanksgiving.
Who is George Washington?
Though a staple for most Thanksgiving dinners, this side dish was not invented until 50 years after the first feast.
Cranberry Sauce.
Green Bean casserole was invented by what company.
What is Campbell Soup Company?
The day and month of the year on which we traditionally celebrate Thanksgiving
What is the fourth Thursday of November?
The name of the indigenous tribe of people who met and assisted the pilgrims.
Who are the Wampanoag tribe?
According to Merriam-Webster, when was the term “Friendsgiving” first circulated?
What is 2007?
This game was the longest running competition for Neal and the Brodsky boys.
What is Monopoly?
This President made turkey pardoning an annual event.
Who is George H.W. Bush?
This NFL football Franchise has the most Thanksgiving games played.
Who are the Detroit Lions with 81?
The most popular Thanksgiving dessert.
What is Pumpkin Pie?
A race many people run on Thanksgiving morning.
What is a Turkey Trot?
The English separatists who came to the United States in 1620.
Who were Pilgrims?
In 1934 the first NFL broadcast of a game was completed due to a promotion by this Detroit Lions owner.
Who was George A. Richards?
Before the annual Thanksgiving Day Parade is Robin's favorite competition.
What is the National Dog Show?
This president was the first to "pardon" a turkey.
Who is John F Kennedy?
Male Turkeys "gobble gobble", but female turkeys make this sound.
What is "Cackle Cackle"?
This red fruit is often served after being made into a jelly along with other side dishes for Thanksgiving dinner.
What is cranberry sauce?
This many turkeys are consumed every year at Thanksgiving.
What is 46 million?
The conical-shaped basket that is generally filled with fruits and vegetables.
What is a cornucopia?
This is the year of the first Thanksgiving.
What is 1621?
This profession shows the 24 hours after Thanksgiving to be their busiest time of year.
Plumbing!
Before Thanksgiving became an official national holiday, each president had to name it so annually. This U.S. President refused.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
True or False. The first ever TV dinner was made with Thanksgiving leftovers.
True! In 1953 a worker at Swanson ordered too many frozen turkeys (260 tons too many to be exact), so a company salesman named Jerry Thomas had the idea to create a packaged dinner on aluminum trays. After an assembly line of women scooped turkey, cornbread dressing, peas, and sweet potatoes onto the trays, the TV dinner was born!
The number one side dish served at most Thanksgiving dinners.
What is Stuffing/Dressing?
A tradition where people would break this specific part of a turkey, which was meant to promote patience and spending time with family.
What is the Wishbone?
How many places in the U.S. have the word “Pilgrim” in their name?
What is Two. Pilgrim, Michigan and Pilgrim, Dade County, Missouri.
Who did Arthur relinquish his Turkey carving duties to because of his dissection skills.
Who is Kenny Brodsky?
What do Marilyn Monroe, Meryl Streep, Matt Damon and Taylor Swift all have in common?
They are all descendents of passengers or crew on the Mayflower.
Which President refused to celebrate Thanksgiving as a national holiday?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
He declined to make a proclamation in 1801. For Jefferson, supporting the holiday meant supporting state-sponsored religion since Thanksgiving is rooted in Puritan religious traditions.
This eating utensil was most probably not used during the first Thanksgiving.
What is a fork?
The average person consumes this many calories, on average, at Thanksgiving dinner.
What are 4,500?
This meat is the most popular alternative to turkey on Thanksgiving.
What is Ham?
This meat was brought to the first thanksgiving by the Native tribe.
What is Deer (Venison)?
The first Thanksgiving lasted this many days.
What is 3?
The loose red skin attached to the underside of a turkey’s beak
What is a Wattle?
This president proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The only active NFL franchise to have never played on Thanksgiving.
Who are the Jacksonville Jaguars?