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Considered America's most popular Thanksgiving dessert, this dish's primary ingredient, whose name comes from the French word "pompon," was first cultivated in Central America around 5,500 B.C
What is pumpkin pie?
The first Thanksgiving lasted this number of days
What is three?
This city, known as the birthplace of the United States, has the oldest Thanksgiving Day parade
What is Philadelphia?
The greenbean casserole was invented by this American company, most closely associated with its flagship canned liquid food products
What is Campbell Soup Company?
The first recorded Thanksgiving took place in this state, roughly three years before the widely known celebration held by the pilgrims in Massachussets
What is Virginia?
This plant-based meat substitute is usually made of soybean or wheat protein and is often served at a vegetarian or vegan Thanksgiving meal
What is tofurkey?
Slightly earlier than in modern times, this is the month the first Thanksgiving was likely celebrated
What is September?
According to surveys, this is what Americans report being the most thankful for on Thanksgiving
What is family?
This "sleighing song" was initially written for Thanksgiving, but is now a popular Christmas song
What is Jingle Bells?
Regularly found on a Baltimorean Thanksgiving table, this fermented dish, made of finely cut cabbage, has a distinctively sour flavor
What is sauerkraut?
This meat was brought by Native Americans to the first Thanksgiving feast held in Massachusetts
What is deer/venison?
The number of women present at the first Thanksgiving feast
What is four/five?
The breaking of the wishbone originated with the Etruscans, an ancient civilization from this modern-day country
What is Italy?
Sarah Josepha Hale, the "Mother of Thanksgiving," also wrote this nursery rhyme about a young girl and a farm animal
What is Mary Had a Little Lamb?
This turkey was pardoned by President Obama in 2013 and is named after the orange-brown confectionery product made by heating a range of sugars
Who is Caramel?
Producing 50% of the sweet potatoes grown in the U.S., this east coast state is the top producer of sweet potatoes in the country
What is North Carolina?
Before migrating to the New World, the Puritans first left England for this European country?
What is Holland/the Netherlands?
What is the second Monday in October?
In this country, residents of Norfolk Island celebrate Thanksgiving due to American influence in the area during the 1800s, when ships from the United States would make pit stops there
What is Australia?
President Calvin Coolidge received this "trashy" animal as a Thanksgiving gift, which he kept as a pet
What is a raccoon?
Alternative name for stuffing, sometimes used in the South, which differentiates the version of the dish prepared in a separate pan from the version stuffed into a turkey
What is dressing?
The Native American who acted as both an interpreter and a guide as the Pilgrims learned to adjust to the new way of life at Plymouth
Who is Squanto?
This major Midwestern city's Thanksgiving Day Parade ends with Santa Claus getting a key to the city
What is Detroit?
This founding father, born in Boston but most commonly associated with Philadelphia, proposed that the "more respectable" turkey, not the bald eagle, be the official bird of the U.S.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The first president to celebrate Thanksgiving outside the United States, this president had Thanksgiving dinner in the south Atlantic on board the U.S.S. Indianapolis on his way to the Inter-American Peace Conference in Buenos Aires
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?