Thanksgiving History
Thanksgiving falls on this Thursday in November in the U.S. every year.
What is the fourth?
The day after Thanksgiving is called this, known for major sales.
What is Black Friday?
This European country shaped like a boot was the birthplace of the breaking of the wishbone tradition.
What is Italy? (the tradition is said to date back to around 800 BCE, to an ancient Italian civilization known as the Etruscans).
On Christmas Eve, children hang these up so Santa can come down the chimney and fill them with gifts.
What are Stockings?
This is the world's most popular peanut butter which is produced in Lexington at world's largest peanut butter production plant.
What is Jif?
This stop-motion 1964 TV special features a reindeer with a very shiny nose.
What is Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer?
This U.S. state was the site of the first Thanksgiving
What is Massachusetts?
Every year nearly 20 million people tune into this popular TV program after the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
What is the National Dog Show?
This cold midwestern state has produced an iconic president, one of the largest cities in the country, and the most pumpkins of any other state.
What is Illinois?
During the Christmas season in this nearby country, families go to a sugar shack and pour hot maple syrup on snow to make a candy treat called "maple taffy".
What is Canada?
Lexington has officially taken on this nickname due to it's limestone-rich bluegrass soil that produces superior racehorses.
What is "The Horse Capital of the World"?
This famous bald cartoon kid gets roasted harder than a thanksgiving turkey for serving toast, pretzels, and popcorn on on the holiday.
Who is Charlie Brown?
In 1705 the entire town of Colchester Connecticut cancelled their Thanksgiving celebration due to a shortage of ingredients which kept them from making this popular thanksgiving desert.
What is pumpkin pie?
This well known city in the Keystone state is home to the country's oldest Thanksgiving day parade.
What is Philadelphia? (The Philadelphia Gimbel Brothers Department Store parade in started in 1920 and was the inspiration for the Macy's parade).
This near and dear state claims the largest pumpkin pie ever made.
What is Ohio? (It was made in New Bremen Ohio and weighed 3,699 lbs).
This European country, represented by some of you here today, is credited with giving the world the tradition of decorating an evergreen tree tree at Christmas time.
What is Germany?
Kentucky is widely known as the bourbon capital of the world given that it ages so much of the supply.
a. 95%. b. 82%. c. 89%
What is 95%?
On Christmas day the Grinches heart grew this many sizes.
What is Three?
This U.S. president declared Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This NFL team has hosted a game on Thanksgiving day every year since 1945. This year will be the 80th game they've hosted in a row.
Who are the Detroit Lions?
In 1953 Swanson massively overestimated how much turkey American's would eat for Thanksgiving. This overage repackaged and resulted in a new product that was heated and served right in the comfort home.
What are the first TV dinners? (all the leftover turkey was repackaged and sold in aluminum trays as a "TV Dinner").
On Christmas Eve in Louisiana, locals light huge bonfires all along this major river to help "Papa Noel" (Cajun Santa) find his way as he delivers gifts.
What is the Mississippi River?
This famous actor was born in right here in Lexington. He's known for iconic films that include Oceans 11 and The American.
Who is George Clooney?
In the movie Elf, Buddy the Elf (Will Ferrell) says that the four main food groups for elves are candy, candy canes, candy corn, and this.
What is syrup?
This is the only meat definitively known to have been served at the first harvest feast shared with the Wampanoag tribe that inspired Thanksgiving.
What is Venison? (The Wampanoag brought five deer as a gift to share with the pilgrims).
This annual container gets filled with family photos, letters, and mementos from the year, then buried or sealed to open the following Thanksgiving.
What is a Thanksgiving Time Capsule?
Most pumpkin pies today are made with this similar squash variety because it has a better flavor and texture for filling. It is the primary ingredient in most of the canned "pumpkin" found in the store.
What is Dickinson Squash?
This folklore in Austria and parts of Germany states that instead of naughty kids receiving coal, Santa's scary counterpart punishes them by hitting them with branches and whips.
Who is Krampus?
This 1,200 acre Lexington attraction features the International Museum of the Horse and bronze statues of racing legends including a statue of Man O'War.
What is Kentucky Horse Park?
What is Friends?
This year marked the first Thanksgiving feast between Pilgrims and Native Americans.
What is 1621?
On Thanksgiving day from the late 1800s to the 1930s, New York City kids in rags and masks (looking like beggars) went door to door begging for pennies and treats.
What is Ragamuffin Day?
What is an Oyster Pie? (It's been a regional tradition since colonial times).
This state, south of the Mason Dixon line, was the first to officially recognize Christas as a legal holiday in 1836 (19 years before any other state).
What is Alabama?
This local, spooky Lexington College sounds like it belongs in a Halloween vampire book. It was founded in 1780 and is the oldest university in the state.
What is Transylvania University?
This is the year that A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving premiered.
What is 1973?