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Question: True or False - Thanksgiving is celebrated only in the United States?
Answer: False. Canada also celebrates a Thanksgiving.
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Question: What part of the turkey is saved and snapped in two as a a good luck custom?
Answer: The wishbone.
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Question: When does Canada celebrate Thanksgiving?
Answer: Canada celebrates Thanksgiving each year on the second Monday in October.
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Question: True or False - All turkeys gooble.
Answer: False - Only the males gooble. The females click.
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Question: Before President Lincoln proclaimed that Thanksgiving would be on the the 4th Thursday in November, when was Thanksgiving celebrated?
Answer: Whatever day the governor of each state proclaimed.
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Question: What is the name of the famous rock credited for where the pilgrims first landed?
Answer: Plymouth Rock.
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Question: What President moved the Thanksgiving Holiday up by one week to stimulate the Christmas shopping season?
Answer: President Franklin D. Roosevelt did this, but it did not go over very well and in 1941 Congress ruled that Thanksgiving would always be held on the fourth Thursday in November. They also made it a federal holiday.
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Every year of the President of the United States pardons a turkey and it goes a family farm called the Frying Pan park in Herndon, VA. Question: What President was the first to do this?
Answer: President Truman in 1947.
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Question: How fast can a turkey run?
Answer: 25 MPH
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Question: How many pilgrams were believe to have been on the Mayflower?
Answer: 102
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Question: What was the first department store to hold a Thanksgiving Day parade?
Answer: Gimbel's.
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Question: True or False - The pilgrims tood beer with them on their voyage?
Answer: True. John Alden was a cooper who made the barrels.
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Question: In what year did the first Macy's Thanksgiving Parade take place?
Answer: 1924.
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Question: What does the term "cornucopia" mean?
Answer: "Horn of plenty."
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Question: How long was the voyage from England to the New World?
Answer: Appoximately 66 days.
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Question: What was the name of the ship the pilgrims traveled on?
Answer: The Mayflower.
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Question: What time did Target open for Black Friday?
Answer: 10pm on Thursday (Thanksgiving Day).
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Most of us eat pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving. Question: There is an old wives' tale that claims that pumpkin pie is a cure for what?
Answer: Freckles
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Question: What state produces the most turkeys?
Answer: North Carolina
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Question: The governor of which State refused to proclaim Thanksgiving a holiday because he said it was a "damned Yankee instutition anyway!"
Answer: Texas
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Question: What President was the first to proclaim that Thanksgiving would be celebrated on the last Thursday in November?
Answer: President Abraham Lincoln did this, but it caused issues as sometimes there were 5 Thursdays in November.
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Question: True or False - Thanksgiving is a religous holiday?
Answer: False - Thanksgiving is a harvest celebration and not associated with any religion.
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Question: Baby turkeys are called what?
Answer: Pouts
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Question: The Mayflower was not originally intended to carry passengers. What was it designed to transport?
Answer: Wine.
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Question: What are unhappy cranberries called?
Answer: Blueberries!