Thanksgiving Day
This founding father popularized by Lin Manuel Miranda once stated that no citizen of the US should refrain from turkey on Thanksgiving Day.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
This song, popularized by The Kingmen in 1963, tells the first-person story of a Jamaican sailor returning to the island to see his lover.
What is Louie, Louie?
An easy way to offend your grandmother is to forget to send this to her after she sends you a present.
What is a thank you note?
The Mayflower first landed on this peninsula before landing nearby at what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts.
What is Cape Cod (Provincetown)?
This comic strip inspired balloon, which was first presented in 1968, remains the longest running balloon character since, currently on it's 9th version.
Who is Snoopy?
On this 2010 episode of How I Met Your Mother, Ted creates what he calls a turturkeykey, made by stuffing his turkey with this.
What is another (smaller) turkey?
Julia Roberts plays an evil stepmother trying to steal a kingdom in this 2012 take on a classic tale.
What is Mirror, Mirror?
The first Christmas card was produced in 1843, the same year this well-known Christmas story was published.
What is A Christmas Carol?
Approximately this many of the Mayflowers 102 passengers died during the harsh winter of 1621.
What is half, or 50%?
This popular movie from 1947 (and a 1994 remake) features the Macy's Thanksgiving parade in its opening scenes.
What is Miracle on 34th Street?
This Disney movie grossed over $67 million on Thanksgiving weekend in 2013, making it the highest money maker of all time for that weekend.
What is Frozen?
This 2013 coming-of-age film starred Toni Collette and Steve Carrell as the boy's mom and her boyfriend.
What is The Way Way Back?
Cards celebrating this holiday date all the way back to 1415 in Europe, making them the oldest form of greeting card.
What is Valentine's Day?
The Mayflower was supposed to land in Virginia, where where it would settle near this already established village.
What is Jamestown?
In 1958, cranes were used to suspend the balloons instead of helium, which was running low because it was being used for this international conflict.
What is the Cold War?
This professional football team has the tradition of playing a game on Thanksgiving Day since 1934, except during World War II.
Who are the Detroit Lions?
Elvis Costello famously played this song on SNL in 1977 (after starting and stopping Less Than Zero).
What is Radio, Radio?
The invention of this item, priced at one penny, in 1840 allowed the greeting card industry to flourish.
This Native American was kidnapped and sold in to slavery in Spain in 1614, but then served as the Pilgrim's chief interpreter.
Who is Squanto?
Now created in-house, the balloons were made by this tire company until 1980.
What is Goodyear?
Because he believed strongly in the separation of Church and State, this early President refused to declare Thanksgiving a holiday (it needed to be named a holiday each year until Lincoln).
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Based on the movie The Apartment, this 1968 musical features music by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, with the title song recorded by Dionne Warwick.
What is Promises, Promises?
Louis Prang, a German immigrant living near Boston, perfected this process in the 1870s making greeting cards more interesting and available commercially (2 words).
What is color lithography?
Pilgrims didn't call themselves Pilgrims -- they used this "S" term instead.
What are Separatists?
When the parade first began in 1924, it featured these local "residents" instead of large balloons, which began in 1927.
What are live animals from the Central Park Zoo?