Thanksgiving Foods
The most popular Thanksgiving dessert.
What is Pumpkin Pie?
A tradition where people would break this specific part of a turkey, in a contest of sorts.
What is the Wishbone?
The English separatists who came to the United States in 1620.
Who were Pilgrims?
Though this song is thought of s a Christmas song, it was actually written to be sung on Thanksgiving Day.
What is Jingle Bells?
This department store is known for their extravagant Thanksgiving parade.
What is Macys?
This president was the first to "pardon" a turkey.
Who is John F Kennedy?
Green Bean casserole was invented by what company?
What is Campbell Soup Company?
The name of the service that has been available for 40 years to answer consumer questions about cooking turkey.
Butterball Turkey Talk-Line
The loose red skin attached to the underside of a turkey’s beak
What is a Wattle?
The reason Tisquantum aka "Squanto" could interpret for the indigenous and the newcomers.
What is Tisquantum's several years as a captive/slave in England?
The annual Thanksgiving Day Parade concludes with the arrival of this person.
Who is Santa Claus?
This President made turkey pardoning an annual event.
Who is George H.W. Bush?
What are the heart, gizzard, and liver?
The day and month on which the legal holiday of Thanksgiving occurs each year.
What is the fourth Thursday of November?
The conical-shaped basket that is generally filled with fruits and vegetables.
What is a cornucopia?
The number of passengers on the Mayflower.
What is 102?
The oldest Thanksgiving Day Parade in the U.S. is actually held in this city, not NYC.
What is Philadelphia?
This president proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This meat is the most popular alternative to turkey on Thanksgiving.
What is ham?
The NFL team that has been hosting a football game on Thanksgiving almost every year since 1934.
What is the Detroit Lions?
The four colors typically associated with Thanksgiving.
What are red, orange, yellow and brown?
These 2 Ivy league schools played in the first Thanksgiving Day football game in 1876.
What is Yale and Princeton?
The reason the parade balloons were deflated and turned in to the government for 3 years.
What is World War II?
Rubber and helium shortages in 1942-1944 inspired the parade owners to donate them to the government.
This President moved Thanksgiving, which resulted in 2 different days being celebrated by different states in the same year.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Concerned that the shortened Christmas shopping season might dampen the economic recovery, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a Presidential Proclamation moving Thanksgiving to the second to last Thursday of November. As a result of the proclamation, 32 states issued similar proclamations while 16 states refused to accept the change and proclaimed Thanksgiving to be the last Thursday in November. For two years two days were celebrated as Thanksgiving - the President and part of the nation celebrated it on the second to last Thursday in November, while the rest of the country celebrated it the following week.
To end the confusion, Congress decided to set a fixed-date for the holiday. On October 6, 1941, the House passed a joint resolution declaring the last Thursday in November to be the legal Thanksgiving Day. The Senate, however, amended the resolution establishing the holiday as the fourth Thursday, which would take into account those years when November has five Thursdays. The House agreed to the amendment, and President Roosevelt signed the resolution on December 26, 1941, thus establishing the fourth Thursday in November as the Federal Thanksgiving Day holiday.
The number of cranberries in a pound.
What is 440?
Acceptable answer: 400-480
The city that hosts the oldest turkey trot race.
What is Buffalo, NY?
This U.S. state holds the record for producing the most cranberries each year.
What is Wisconsin?
The name of the indigenous tribe of people who met and assisted the pilgrims.
Who are the Wampanoag tribe?
The biggest enemy of the parade balloons, causing most balloon catastrophes.
What is wind?
This early president refused to issue Thanksgiving proclamations, believing it went against the separation of church and state.
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 many turkeys are consumed every year at Thanksgiving.
What is 46 million?
Acceptable answer 40-50 million
This is the decade Black Friday shopping began, following Thanksgiving
What is the 1950's
This meat was brought to the first thanksgiving by the Native tribe.
What is Deer (Venison)?
The pilgrims are said to have had to stride across these when arriving on the beach at Plymouth, evidence of previous European visits.
The average length of time it takes to deflate a parade balloon.
15 minutes
Acceptable answer between 10-20 minutes.
This Founding Father (not president) who wanted the wild turkey to be the symbol of the United States of America.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?