The first Thanksgiving
US Traditions
Bits and Pieces
Native People
Gobble Gobble
100

The year when the first Thanksgiving took place.

What is 1621?

100

Name 5 traditional foods served at Thanksgiving.

What are: turkey, mashed potatoes, corn, waldorf salad, pumpkin pie, apple pie, cranberries/cranberry sauce.

100

The names of the three ships brining pilgrims to America.

What are the Pinta, the Maria and the Mayflower?


100

The native animal that is associated with giving thanks.

What is the turkey?

100

What a female turkey is called.

What is a hen?

200

The number of days the first Thanksgiving lasted.

What is three days?
200

The word for the day after Thanksgiving.

What is Black Friday?

200

The number of pilgrims who traveled to America in the mayflower.

How many are 102 men women and children?

200

The ways the native people helped the Pilgrims.

What was teaching them to plant crops, kill wild animals and survive the winter?

200

What a male turkey is called.

What is a tom or a gobbler?

300

The president who made Thanksgiving an annual holiday.

Who is President Abraham Lincoln?

300

The major sport event that is televised on Thanksgiving day. 

What is the NFL game.
300

The Greek goddess of the havest.

Who is Demeter?

300

The three words used in the  Declaration of Independence by the founders of the United States to reference native people.

What were "merciless savage Indians"?

300

What a baby turkey is called.

What is a poult or a chick?

400

The name of the most famous Thanksgiving Day parade.

What is the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?

400

The month in which Thanksgiving is celebrated in Canada.

What is October?

400

The weight in pounds of the heaviest turkey on record.

What is 86 pounds?

400

The celebration for Native people on Black Friday.

What is Native American Heritage Day?

400

 The speed in miles per hour at which wild turkeys can run.

What is 25 miles per hour?

500

The reason why there were so few women at the first Thanksgiving.

What is ...because they had died! (It is very tough being a pilgrim.)

500

What is the average number of calories consumed at Thanksgiving dinner the United States.

What is 4,500!! (Holy cow! That's usually enough food for 2 1/4 days!)

500

The name of a group of domesticated turkeys.

What is a gang of turkeys?

500

The name of the specific tribe that helped the pilgrims.

Who are the Wampanoag?

500

The reason why male turkeys are called gobblers.

What is the gobble sound they make to attract the female turkeys, the hens.