The Macy's Day Parade
This year was the 99th parade. What year was the first?
1924
This state consumes the most turkey every Thanksgiving
California
This Thanksgiving staple actually floats on water when harvested
Cranberries
This President made Thanksgiving Day a permanent national holiday
Abraham Lincoln
This is the average number of guests for Thanksgiving dinner.
11
How many people attend the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City?
(Answer must be +/- 500,000)
3.5 million
Turkeys have this many toes on each of their feet
Four
three pointing forward and one backward
Is a pumpkin a vegetable or a fruit?
(all teams answer for points)
Fruit
This President set the precedent for Thanksgiving to be celebrated on the last Thursday of November.
Abraham Lincoln
Guided the tradition with his 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation
This many places in the U.S. are actually named Turkey?
Three
another four are named Cranberry(Pennsylvania, North Carolina, West Virginia and Maryland).
Balloon handlers cannot do this between 5:30am-12:00pm
Go to the bathroom
About how many feathers does an adult turkey have?
(answer must be +/- 500)
About 3,500
This Thanksgiving vegetable has successfully been grown in space
Potato
As tradition, the President will pardon 2 turkeys every year. What were this year's turkeys names?
1) Drumstick and Wishbone 2) Butter and Bread 3) Liberty and Bell 4) Waddle & Gobble
Waddle & Gobble
This is the busiest day of the year for plumbers?
Black Friday
Balloons took the place of these when introduced in the 1928 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
Live zoo animals
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, this is how much the heaviest turkey on record weighed.
(answer must be +/- 5 pounds)
86 pounds
This is how much did the world's largest pumpkin pie weighed.
(all teams; Price is Right rules)
3,699 pounds
President Calvin Coolidge famously received this as a Thanksgiving gift
1) Rifle 2) Record Player. 3) Raccoon 4) Football
A live raccoon
In November 1926, Vinnie Joyce of Nitta Yuma, Mississippi, sent the 30th President of the United States a live raccoon to be served as Thanksgiving dinner. He named it Rebecca.
These schools faced each other in the first Thanksgiving collegiate football game
1) Princeton vs Yale. 2) Dartmouth vs Harvard 3) Harvard vs Princeton 4) Dartmouth vs Princeton
Princeton vs Yale
What was the first character balloon ever in the Macys parade?
What is Felix the Cat
These are the only turkeys that actually Gobble.
(All teams answer for points)
Male Turkeys
This is typically the most unhealthy food on the Thanksgiving dinner table
Cranberry sauce
filled with sugar, acid, and has a sticky texture that can stain enamel
This President refused to declare Thanksgiving a holiday.
Thomas Jefferson
This is how long it took for the Mayflower's voyage from England to America?
(All teams answer; Price is Right Rules)
66 days