Parades
The largest Thanksgiving Day parade is sponsored by this department store in NYC.
What is Macy's?
These people were called Puritans before leaving England.
What were the Pilgrims called before fleeing Europe?
This feast first happened in 1621.
When was the 1st Thanksgiving?
Many family members and friends fall asleep in front of the TV while watching this traditional American Fall sport after Thanksgiving dinner.
What are football games?
This feathered poultry item is eaten on Thanksgiving due to its abundance, size, and affordability.
What is turkey?
The Philadelphia Thanksgiving Parade is televised in front of this building made famous by Sylvester Stallone.
What is the Philadelphia Art Museum?
This is the meat that Native Americans brought to the first Thanksgiving that had antlers on their heads.
What is deer or venison?
The Greek culture produced the idea of this also called the horn of plenty.
What is the cornucopia?
The 1st President was the first to give a turkey a presidential pardon in the 1980's.
Who is President Ronald Reagan?
These fruit are a group of evergreen dwarf shrubs or trailing vines that grew in a watery bog but no Thanksgiving dinner is complete without their sauce.
What are cranberries?
It was started in 1920 and originally called the Gimbels Thanksgiving Day Parade until the Gimbels department stores closed down in this city.
What is Philadelphia?
Wampanoag were this group of people that helped the Pilgrims survived in "New England".
What are Native Americans or American Indians?
This man and the Pilgrims sailed across the Atlantic Ocean, from Southampton, England, to North America, on a ship called the Mayflower. He was an important part of Plymouth Colony. He helped build homes and other buildings, and trained the Pilgrims to use weapons.
Who is Miles Standish?
The Friday after Thanksgiving is called this accounting term because some stores were able to get out of the "RED" and into this color.
What is Black Friday?
Although the orange fruit is native to North America, the pie from it was actually first made in England and Europe.
What are pumpkins?
This Thanksgiving Day Parade was started by Louis Bamberger in Newark, New Jersey but was transferred to New York City.
What is the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade?
The first Thanksgiving celebration was 72 hours making it this many days long.
What is 3 days?
Squanto was a Wampanoag who had experience with other settlers and knew English. Squanto helped the settlers grow corn and use this animal's heads caught in the waterways to fertilize their fields.
What is fish?
This US northern neighbor celebrates Thanksgiving on the second Monday of October.
What is Canada?
The state raises the most turkeys and home of the Vikings football team.
What is Minnesota?
In America’s Thanksgiving Parade this usually features Santa receiving the key to the city from the Mayor of this Midwest major city that was made famous by the automobile industry.
What is Detroit?
Eels, shellfish, stews, vegetables, and beer were also provided by the Native Americans for this.
What was the 1st Thanksgiving feast?
The US has celebrated Thanksgiving off and on since 1774. But it wasn’t until 1863 when this U.S. President proclaiming a day of Thanksgiving on the last Thursday of November that it became an annual holiday.
Who is President Abraham Lincoln?
Thanksgiving Day is called the National Day of Mourning by this group of people.
Who are Native Americans?
This is the wobbly red piece of flesh on top of the beak of a turkey,
What is a wattle or snood?