Thanksgiving History
This U.S. president made Thanksgiving a national holiday.
Answer: Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This 2013 Disney film features the song "Let It Go" but is often watched during Thanksgiving weekend.
Answer: What is Frozen?
This is the most popular pie served on Thanksgiving.
Answer: What is pumpkin pie?
In "Friends," Rachel accidentally puts this ingredient in her Thanksgiving trifle.
Answer: What is beef (with peas and onions)?
This NFL team has hosted a Thanksgiving game every year since 1934.
Answer: Who are the Detroit Lions?
This song by Mariah Carey is known as the unofficial anthem of the Christmas season.
Answer: What is "All I Want for Christmas Is You"?
The Pilgrims' first Thanksgiving feast lasted this many days.
Answer: What is three days?
In "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving," Snoopy serves this unconventional meal.
Answer: What are popcorn, toast, jelly beans, and pretzels?
Americans consume approximately this many million turkeys each Thanksgiving.
Answer: What is 46 million?
In 1997, this famous children's character balloon was torn by high winds and injured several people during the parade.
Answer: Who is Barney
This is the number of NFL games traditionally played on Thanksgiving Day.
Answer: What is three?
In the song "Jingle Bells," riders are dashing through the snow in this type of vehicle.
Answer: What is a one-horse open sleigh?
This Native American tribe celebrated the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims.
Answer: Who are the Wampanoag?
This 1987 John Candy and Steve Martin comedy follows two men trying to get home for Thanksgiving.
Answer: What is Planes, Trains and Automobiles?
This department store has hosted the Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City since 1924.
Answer: What is Macy's?
What year did Sears come out with their first famous Christmas catalog?
Answer: 1888
This team joined the Lions in hosting an annual Thanksgiving game starting in 1966.
Answer: Who are the Dallas Cowboys?
This red-nosed reindeer was created for a Montgomery Ward marketing campaign in 1939.
Answer: Who is Rudolph?
This president was the first to officially pardon a Thanksgiving turkey.
Answer: Who is George H.W. Bush?
In "Home Alone," the McCallister family is traveling to this city for Christmas when they accidentally leave Kevin behind.
Answer: What is Paris?
Male turkeys make this sound, while female turkeys do not.
Answer: What is gobble?
Taylor Swift performed the national anthem during this team's Thanksgiving game in 2006.
Answer: What are the Detroit Lions? (or Green Bay Packers game)
In football, this is what the term "turkey" means when scoring.
Answer: What is three touchdowns in a game?
This streaming platform released "The Christmas Chronicles" and "Falling for Christmas."
Answer: What is Netflix?
The Pilgrims arrived in America on this ship in 1620.
Answer: What is the Mayflower?
This actor played the father in the 1995 film "Home for the Holidays."
Answer: Who is Robert Downey Jr.?
This state raises the most turkeys in the United States.
Answer: What is Minnesota?
This TV family's Thanksgiving episodes are known for "The Slap" tradition in their sitcom.
Answer: Who are the Mosbys/the gang from "How I Met Your Mother"?
This legendary coach led the Dallas Cowboys during their first Thanksgiving game.
Answer: Who is Tom Landry?
This song contains the lyrics "chestnuts roasting on an open fire."
Answer: What is "The Christmas Song" (or "Merry Christmas to You")?
This Native American served as an interpreter between the Pilgrims and Native Americans.
Answer: Who is Squanto (or Tisquantum)?
In "Rocky" (1976), Rocky has an awkward Thanksgiving dinner with this character.
Answer: Who is Adrian?
The average number of calories consumed per person on Thanksgiving dinner is approximately this much.
Answer: What is 3,000-4,500 calories? (accept range)
In "Gilmore Girls," Lorelai and Rory attend this many Thanksgiving dinners in one day during the Season 3 episode.
Answer: What is four?
The Detroit Lions' first Thanksgiving game was played in this year.
Answer: What is 1934?
This actor plays Buddy the Elf in the 2003 Christmas comedy film.
Answer: Who is Will Ferrell?
Thanksgiving was celebrated on a varying day of the week until this president standardized it.
Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt
This 2005 film starring Sarah Jessica Parker features a chaotic Thanksgiving family gathering.
Answer: What is The Family Stone?
This red fruit was likely eaten at the first Thanksgiving and is now a staple side dish.
Answer: What are cranberries?
What plant was featured in The Walton's Christmas Special?
Answer: Christmas Cactus
This running back on the Buffalo Bills famously had a massive Thanksgiving Day performance with 273 rushing yards in 1976.
Answer: Who is O.J. Simpson?
Adam Sandler performed this humorous holiday song on Saturday Night Live, celebrating a Jewish holiday during Christmas season.
Answer: What is "The Chanukah Song"?
This colony is where the first Thanksgiving took place.
Answer: What is Plymouth Colony (or Plymouth, Massachusetts)?
In "The Blind Side," the Tuohy family celebrates Thanksgiving with Michael Oher, and Leigh Anne serves dinner from this restaurant chain.
Answer: What is KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken)?
The heaviest turkey on record weighed this many pounds.
Answer: What is 86 pounds?
SpongeBob SquarePants celebrated "Thanksgiving" in Bikini Bottom with this type of main dish.
Answer: What is a pumpkin? (accept: sea-related alternative)
"The Thanksgiving Day Massacre" refers to this team's 55-point loss to the Patriots in 2012.
Answer: Who are the New York Jets?
This pop group had a hit with "Last Christmas" in 1984, and it's still played every holiday season.
Answer: Who is Wham!?
Sarah Josepha Hale, who campaigned for Thanksgiving to become a national holiday, also wrote this famous nursery rhyme.
Answer: What is "Mary Had a Little Lamb"?
In "Scent of a Woman," Al Pacino's character has a memorable Thanksgiving scene at this university.
Answer: What is Harvard?
The annual Turkey Trot race on Thanksgiving morning originated in this state in 1896.
Answer: What is New York (Buffalo)?
In "The West Wing," President Bartlet pardons a turkey and references this Thanksgiving element of the Constitution.
Answer: What is the presidential pardon power?
Which 2 quarterbacks threw for 6 touchdowns in a single Thanksgiving game in 1977 and 2004, setting the holiday record.
Answer: Who is Bob Griese and Peyton Manning
In "The Office" episode "Dwight Christmas," the staff celebrates this Pennsylvania Dutch holiday tradition at Dwight's farm
Answer: What is Belsnickel (or Pennsylvania Dutch Christmas)?
The Pilgrims celebrated their first Thanksgiving in this year.
Answer: What is 1621?
In "A Christmas Story," Ralphie wants this SPECIFIC gift for Christmas.
Answer: What is a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-shot Range Model air rifle
Female turkeys are called hens, male turkeys are called this.
Answer: What are toms?
This NBC variety show premiered the "Turkeys Away" episode featuring a helicopter turkey drop disaster that became one of television's most memorable Thanksgiving moments, ranking #7 on TV Guide's list of greatest episodes.
Answer: What is WKRP in Cincinnati?
Which Dallas Cowboys player had an infamous fumble on a blocked field goal attempt during this 1993 Thanksgiving game.
Answer: Who is Leon Lett?
Norman Rockwell's iconic Thanksgiving painting "Freedom from Want" was first published in this magazine in 1943.
Answer: What is The Saturday Evening Post?