Thanksgiving Food
The First Thanksgiving
Turkey Facts
Other random Thanksgiving things
100

The bird that it is very traditional to eat at Thanksgiving.

What is turkey?

100

The first thanksgiving lasted this long.

What is 3 days?

100

This famous scientist and founding father wanted the turkey to be the US's national bird instead of the eagle.

Who is Benjamin Franklin?

100

This thing forced Grandma and Grandpa to go down the mountain after Thanksgiving last year.

What is a lot of snow?

200

This tasty thanksgiving food is always stored in its container upside-down.

What are cranberries?

200

This was something they probably didn't eat at the first Thanksgiving.

A. Lobster
B. Duck
C. Potatoes
D. Turkey

What is turkey?

200

The place where wild turkeys usually sleep.

What is a tree?

200

This easy, microwaved food was first made using leftover thanksgiving turkey,

What are TV dinners?

300
The largest pumpkin pie on record was about this many feet across.

What is 6 m/20 ft?
(The crust was made of 440 sheets of dough, and it weighed about 1,678 kg/3,699 lb)

300

The year the first Thanksgiving was celebrated.

What is 1621?

300

The part of the turkeys body that can shift color depending on the turkeys mood.

What is its head?

300
This WW2 president wanted to move Thanksgiving to the third thursday in November, instead of keeping it on the 4th.

Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?

400

Sweet potatoes _______ (are/are not) potatoes, (bonus if you can name they family potatoes are from!)

What is are not?
Potatoes are from the nightshade family, while sweet potatoes are from the morning glory family.

400

The small number of colonists who were still alive to celebrate the first thanksgiving.

What is about 50?

400

The approximate fastest speed (mph) a turkey can run at.

What is 25 mph?

400

The other country, near to America, that also celebrates Thanksgiving.

What is Canada?

(They celebrate in October, offering thanks for a voyage that took place 40 years before the Mayflower's.)

500

The first vegetarian turkey, sold in 1995, was called this.
(Hint: tofu and turkey)

What is tofurkey? :)
500

The year Abraham Lincoln made Thanksgiving a national holiday.

A. 1875
B. 1863
C. 1857

What is 1863?

500

The approximate number of turkeys that usually get turned into dinner every Thanksgiving.

What is 45-46 million?

500

This Christmas song was originally a Thanksgiving song.

A. Jingle Bells
B. Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer
C. Carol of the Bells


What is Jingle Bells?