Food Facts
This tart fruit, one of only three berries native to North America, grows in bogs and was used by Indigenous peoples as food, dye, and medicine.
What is the cranberry?
This was the name of the Pilgrim's ship.
What was the Mayflower?
This part of the turkey hangs from its neck and is long, fleshy, red skin.
What is the wattle?
This famous parade is held in NYC every Thanksgiving morning.
What is the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
Native peoples taught colonists to grow this crop using fish as fertilizer.
What is corn (maize)?
This sweet Thanksgiving pie features a sticky filling made from a tree nut native to the American South.
What is pecan pie?
This US President proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday in the midst of the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This is where wild turkeys sleep at night.
What is in trees?
DAILY DOUBLE!
Of the 102 passengers aboard the Mayflower, only this approximate number survived to celebrate the 1621 harvest feast.
What is about 50?
(Accept 47-53)
Cranberries grow in these water-filled areas often found in New England.
What are cranberry bogs?
This dessert, spiced with cinnamon, ginger, and cloves, became a holiday staple after early American settlers adopted it from Native squash dishes.
What is pumpkin pie?
The original Thanksgiving feast lasted this many days.
What is 3 days?
This is the name of the bumpy skin on top of the turkey's beak.
What is the snood?
This is a tradition where the President of the United States spares a turkey (or two!) from being the Thanksgiving meal.
What is the turkey pardon?
This grain was a staple of Pilgrim breadmaking, even though it made their bread much darker and denser than modern rolls.
What is rye?
This stuffing herb—also a Simon & Garfunkel lyric—has been used in poultry seasoning since ancient Rome.
What is sage?
This was the year in which Thanksgiving was made a national holiday.
What was 1863?
Adult male turkeys are called gobblers or _______.
What are toms?
This NFL team has played on Thanksgiving every year since 1934.
What are the Detroit Lions.
This trio of crops—corn, beans, and squash—were traditional Indigenous “companion plants.”
What are the Three Sisters?
This savory dish, traditionally made from the turkey’s liver, heart, and gizzard, is used to deepen the flavor of gravy—though many diners never realize it’s there.
What is giblet gravy?
At the first Thanksgiving, the English Pilgrims ate with this Native American tribe.
What is the Wampanoag tribe?
Turkeys can see this type of light that humans cannot, because their eyes have more photoreceptors, including ones that are sensitive to this type of light.
What is ultraviolet light?
This holiday movie begins on Thanksgiving and ends on Christmas Eve, starring Steve Martin and John Candy.
What is Planes, Trains & Automobiles.
This labor-intensive grain was likely NOT served at the first Thanksgiving because it required mills the Pilgrims didn’t have.
What is wheat?