Thanksgiving Foods
The most popular main course on Thanksgiving.
What is turkey?
Americans like to play and watch this popular game on Thanksgiving day.
What is football?
This orange vegetable is commonly used as a symbol of Thanksgiving.
What is a pumpkin?
The name of the ship the Pilgrims boarded to start their journey to Plymouth, Massachusetts goes by this name.
What is the Mayflower?
The type of food which was NOT served at the first Thanksgiving.
*corn on the cob
*pumpkin
*seafood
What is corn on the cob?
The loose red skin attached to the underside of a turkey’s beak goes by this name.
What is a Wattle?
"What key has legs and can't open a door?"
A Turkey
The way people typically prepare potatoes for Thanksgiving dinner.
What is mashed potatoes?
This popular parade airs every year on Thanksgiving morning.
What is Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade?
The English separatists who came to the United States in 1620 are commonly referred to by this name.
What is the Pilgrims?
The Pilgrim Monument is located in city and state.
What is Provincetown, Massachusetts?
This Native American was especially helpful to the Pilgrims in those early days.
Who is Squanto?
In 1926, President Calvin Coolidge pardoned this wild animal after receiving it as a gift for his Thanksgiving dinner.
What is a raccoon?
Why did they let the turkey join the band?
Because he had his own drumsticks
This type of apple is used traditionally in apple pie.
What is Granny Smith?
This president that made Thanksgiving a permanent national holiday.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Known as the "Three Sister Crops" these triad of crops have a mutualistic relationship: all three crops work together in harmony to benefit one another. This makes them perfect crops for companion planting.
What is corn, beans and squash?
The Mayflower carried over this number of passengers.
What is 102?
The Pilgrims reached this now US state when they arrived on the Mayflower.
What is Massachusetts?
Turkey was not likely the centerpiece or even on the menu at the first Thanksgiving. This common mammal was likely served instead.
What is venison?
What happened to the turkey that got in a fight?
He got the stuffing knocked out of him!
This meat is the most popular alternative to turkey on Thanksgiving.
What is ham?
The oldest documented turkey trot still takes place every year in this US city.
What is Buffalo, New York?
This common Thanksgiving symbol, typically hollow and made out of wicker in the shape of a horn, it is often called the “horn of plenty.”
What is a cornucopia?
The Mayflower’s voyage from England to America lasted this number of days.
What is 66 days?
The colony the Pilgrims started went by this name.
What is Plymouth Colony?
More commonly known as a popular Christmas tune, composer James Pierpont's 1857 song was oringinally intended to be a Thanksgiving Day song.
What is Jingle Bells?
What is your favorite Fall food?
Free points
This state produces the most cranberries per year.
What is Wisconsin?
These two NFL teams have played a game on Thanksgiving Day since 1966.
What is the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys?
Black Friday isn't the only holiday the day after Thanksgiving. It's also as this celebratory day.
What is Native American Heritage Day?
The year of the first Thanksgiving was held in this year.
What is 1621?
The Pilgrims and the Native Americans were celebrating this event for the first time on Thanksgiving day.
What is the harvest?
The name of the US President who declared two Thanksgivings in one year.
Who is James Madison?
What did the turkey say to the computer?
Google, google.
True potatoes like russets are members of the nightshade botanical family, while sweet potatoes belong to this botanical family.
What is Morning Glory Family?
This U.S. president was the first to officially pardon a turkey making it an annual event.
Who is George H.W. Bush?
In 1989 he "presented a Presidential pardon" to a "fine tom turkey"
Thanksgiving Day is an annual Canadian holiday held on the second Monday of this month.
What is October?
The first Thanksgiving lasted this number of days.
What is 3 days?
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, America had approximately this number of colonists living in America in 1620.
What is 2,499?
The speed that turkeys can run when scared.
What is 20MPH?
What kind of weather does a turkey like?
Fowl Weather