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100
Soldiers built these long, narrow ditches used for concealment and protection during World War I.
What are Trenches?
100

What is the slang word for Military doctors

Who are BONES?

100

The place where the first Thanksgiving was celebrated.

What is Plymouth, Massachusetts?

100
The first day of fall.
What is the autumn equinox?
100
The iconic symbol of the Cold War came down November 10, 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall?
200
This armed forces group is located across the country in "wings".
What is Air Command?
200

Camouflage Utility uniform for Navy and Marines

What are Cammies?

200

For a moist turkey on Thanksgiving, some swear by doing this, making a salt water solution & submerging the bird in it for 24 hours.

What is brining?

200
The full moon which occurs closest to the autumn equinox.
What is the Harvest Moon?
200
This ended on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918.
What is World War I
300

Don't forget--in Canada, Veterans Day is known as this

What is Remembrance Day?

300
Old term for The Pentagon.
What is the five-sided squirrel cage?
300

A 1933 Popeye short is called "I ____ What I ____"

What is Yam?

300
This person wrote the lyrics to the song “Autumn Leaves” the last two lines of which are” But I miss you most of all my darling When autumn leaves start to fall”?
Who is Johnny Mercer?
300
In 1863 this president proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day to be held each November.
Who is president Abraham Lincoln?
400

In 1954 this man signed legislation officially establishing the name Veterans Day

Who is President Eisenhower?

400
Naval term for a chow hall cheeseburger?
What are sliders?
400
The first Macy's Thanksgiving Parade balloon.
What is Felix the Cat?
400

An early version of this tradition was in Nov. 1911 when the University of Missouri's athletic director had alumni visit for the Kansas game

What is Homecoming

400

Became the 39th state in November of 1889.

What is North Dakota?

500

This field in Belgium was in full bloom with red poppies when John McCrae wrote this poem.

What is Flanders Fields?

500
To abandon an aircraft mid-flight by means of a parachute.
What is Hit The Silk?
500

Which NFL team has the best Thanksgiving record? 

Who is The Detroit Lions: 37-44-2

500

Sometimes called "quaking", this tree brings glorious color to autumn in Colorado

What is an Aspen Tree?

500
Cartoonist Thomas Nast depicts Republican party as this animal in a cartoon in Harper's Weekly.
What is the elephant?