Potpourri
True or false
Wild turkeys can run up to 25 mph and fly up short spurts up to 55 mph
What is TRUE?
This eating utensil was absent from the first Thanksgiving table.
What is the fork?
This is the name of the salt water solution the turkey is marinated in before cooking.
What is brining?
The famous Macy's parade was disrupted by this weather event in 1989.
What is snow?
An unopened frozen turkey can be safely frozen to eat for this number of years
A) 2
B) 5
C) 7
What is "A" 2?
This US president made Thanksgiving a national holiday. He also signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Busy man!
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
The first Thanksgiving lasted for this many days.
A) 5
B) 1
C) 3
What is 3?
This crunchy item is traditionally added to the top of the famous green bean casserole.
What is fried or toasted onion?
He was the first president to officially pardon a turkey.
A) Richard Nixon
B) Ronald Reagan
C) George H.W. Bush
Who is "C" George H.W. Bush?
A pound of cranberries has approximately this many cranberries in it
A) 10,000
B) 235
C) 440
What is "C" 440?
This Native American tribe joined the Pilgrims in the first Thanksgiving
A) the Sioux
B) the Apache
C) the Wampanoag
What is "C" the Wampanoag
The Pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving in this year.
A) 1970
B) 1621
C) 1420
What is 1621?
This is the first Thanksgiving vegetable to be grown in outer space. Yummy mashed!
This famous statesman is known for calling the turkey a "Bird of Courage". Maybe he was flying a kite at the time.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This state produces more cranberries than any other in the US
A) California
B) Florida
C) Wisconsin
What is "C" Wisconsin?
This department store has carried on the Thanksgiving parade tradition in New York.
What is Macys?
The Pilgrims settled in this place in Massachusetts
A) Boston
B) Plymouth
C) Harvard
What is Plymouth?
The turkey needs to be baked to this temperature to be safe to eat.
A) 165
B) 225
C) 300
What is A, 165?
The number of passengers on the Mayflower
A) 1,000
B) 512
C) 102
What is "C" 102?
The proper name for a Pilgrim hat
A) Capotain
B) Old Smokey
C) Cover Thine Hair
What is "A" Capotain?
This wondrous state eats more turkey than any other.
What is California
Only one gender of the turkey gobbles. It is
A) female
B) male
What is B the male?
The pumpkin is technically a fruit or vegetable
A) Fruit
B) Vegetable
What is A a fruit?
It took the Mayflower this many days to travel from England to Plymouth
A) 66
B) 88
C) 22
What is "A" 66?
True or False
The Mayflower Compact was the first official act of legislation by the Pilgrims.
What is True?