Turkey
Cranberries
Thanksgiving Traditions
Black Friday
Pie
100

The national language of Turkey.

What is Turkish?
100

The number TWO song for The Cranberries, but my favorite song.
"I'm such a fool for you"

What is linger?

100

The thanksgiving day parade in NYC is sponsored by this retailer. 

What is Macy's?

100

Plumbers see up to 50% of increased calls the day after Thanksgiving. They call it a not-so appetizing name.

What is Brown Friday?

100

While people love memorizing as many digits of this number as possible, you don't really need that many. To measure the circumference of the universe to the accuracy of the hydrogen atom, you only need 37 digits. JPL only uses 15.

What is pi?

200
The capital of Turkey, formally Constantinople.

What is Istanbul?

200

Cranberries are grown in bushes around two feet tall, then the night before harvest, farmers flood the area to protect the bushes from harsh winter freezes. The flood makes the cranberries rise to the top creating this body of water.

What is a bog?

200
Canada has their own Thanksgiving a month before ours to celebrate the fall harvest. They eat (basically) the same food and even play Canadian Football on that day. It's a national holiday held on this day, the 2nd week of October.

What is Monday?

200
With most people shopping online, a new day for deals after thanksgiving, but instead of Friday, it's three days later.

What is Cyber Monday?

200

Apple Pie might seem as American as it gets, its origins are from across the pond before being brought to the US in the 1800s

What is England?

300

This high-ranking official in the government has the power to pardon people from federal crimes. Additionally, they pardon a Turkey every year to save them from ending up on a dinner plate.

Who is the president?

300
Many families over Thanksgiving elect to buy canned cranberry sauce from this company. More respectable houses (Izzy and Aaron) make their own cranberry sauce.

What is Ocean Spray?

300

This wine from France is released one week before Thanksgiving, but usually consumed on Thanksgiving for the tradition. I am drinking it now.

What is Beaujolais Nouveau?

300

Black Friday is "Black" because the retailers bookkeeping accounts is going from negative (this color) to positive (black).

What is red?

300

Pumpkin pie (and most pumpkin-flavored things) are rarely made with fresh pumpkin, opting for this canned alternative.

What is pumpkin puree?

400

Turkey is a transcontinental country, which has its borders between these two continents.

What is Europe and Asia?
400

While Wisconsin produces the most cranberries by far, the 2nd highest production is much further east.

What is Massachusetts?
400

Daily Double: NFL Thanksgiving day football has been around since the 1940s. These two teams play every year.

Who are the Lions and Cowboys?

400

Black Friday used to reference September 24, 1869. President Ulysses S. Grant released $4,000,000 of this precious medal (worth $95,000,000) today which caused an 18% market drop. He did this to stop collusion in his administration. 

What is gold?

400

The upper classes would enjoy whole cuts of meats, while the poor cuts and scraps would be collected and baked into a pie for the lower classes, which is where we got this phrase.

What is (eating a slice of) humble pie?

500

Two ways to butcher a turkey before cooking is to spatchcock, which is removing the spine to lay the bird flat, or this method, which requires tucking the wings and tying them together with butchers twine.

What is trussing?

500

The original name for this band was "The Cranberry Saw Us" a pun on Cranberry Sauce.

Who are the Cranberries?

500

While Turkey was not eaten on first Thanksgiving, other geese and fowl were consumed along this term for deer.

What is venison?

500

The original day for Thanksgiving, but retailers urged president FDR to move it back to give people more time to shop for Christmas.

What is the LAST Thursday of November?

500
Foot in Spanish.

What is pie?