Presidents Over the Years
What president served for only 31 days.
Who is William Harrison
The husband of Pocahontas
Who is John Rolfe
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade was initiated in this date
What is 1924?
This reporter gave the live reporting of the great turkey drop disaster in Cincinnati, Ohio on Thanksgiving 1978
Who is Les Nesman?
You break this bone for good luck
What is the wish bone?
The president who made Thanksgiving a national holiday
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
In 1613 this person was taken hostage by English Captain Samuel Argall to negotiate peace with her father.
Who is Pocahontas?
This led to the first TV dinner
What is Thanksgiving leftovers?
This team has hosted the most Thanksgiving games since 1934
Who is the Lions?
A newer Thanksgiving tradition celebrated by a gathering of people other than family
What is a “Friendsgiving?”
The president who tried moving the date of Thanksgiving
Who is Roosevelt?
In May 1607, about 100 English colonists settled along this River
What is the James River?
The first Thanksgiving took place on this date
What is 1621?
Arguably the most famous Thanksgiving movie, starring John Candy in 1987
What is Planes, Trains and Automobiles?
This tradition is called Black Friday actually for this reason
What is the Philadelphia police coined this phrase to describe the chaos that ensued when shoppers flooded the city after Thanksgiving?
The reason Roosevelt tried to change the date of Thanksgiving?
What is to help the economy?
The age of Pocahontas when she pleaded for John Smith’s life
What is 13 years?
This Pilgrim’s feast lasted for 3 days with this (blank) tribe
What is the Wampanoag tribe?
This tradition signals the beginning of the holiday season of national thanks, historically representing agriculture’s plentiful harvest and the contributions of America’s turkey growers
What is the presentation of the National Thanksgiving turkey?
Some people credit this Charle’s Dickens’s (1843) to the bolstering of the idea of the turkey being part of the Thanksgiving feast, although it was bot original to the first Thanksgiving feast
What is “A Christmas Carol”?
The year Roosevelt tried and change the day of Thanksgiving?
What is 1939?
Pocahontas’s real name
What is Matoaka?
Few records exist about what was actually at the first Thanksgiving feast, but it is known the Wampanoag tribe brought five of this animal
What are deer?
This team played the Detroit Lions in Thanksgiving 2022
Who is Buffalo Bills?
This writer, Sarah Josepha Hale played a large role in influencing the role of the turkey in the Thanksgiving feast in this novel
What is “Northwood”?