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The century when the first Thanksgiving was held.
What is the 17th (1600's; 1621)?
The name of the ship on which the Pilgrims traveled.
What is the Mayflower?
This tribe participated in the first Thanksgiving.
Who are the Wampanoag?
Not eaten at the first Thanksgiving.
What is turkey?
The NFL team which has played on Thanksgiving since 1934 (other than the 1939-1944 World War II era).
Who are the Detroit Lions?
This Harris-Allen family member submitted our family history
Who is Ruth Allen Burgess? (Joseph Allen, also known as George Davis, the son of Sally Harris, dictated this information to Ruth on July 26th 1981 at the 5th family reunion.
Number of days that the first Thanksgiving lasted.
What is 3?
The main reason Pilgrims came to America.
What is Religious Freedom?
The name of a famous Native American who taught the Pilgrims to hunt and grow food in America.
Who is Squanto?
The principal cause of sleepiness on Thanksgiving Day.
What is overeating? (because digestion uses our bodies energy; turkey does contain L-Tryptophan which can cause the body to produce Serotonin. However, there is not enough to make you sleepy)
The host of the biggest annual Thanksgiving parade in America.
What is Macy's (New York)?
Our earliest known ancestor was born in this year and he married this woman.
Who is John Harris and Louisa Barlow?
The decade that an American president first proclaimed Thanksgiving a National Holiday.
What is the 1780's (1789)?
This happened to about half of the Pilgrims that came to America.
What is they died?
How Native Americans became known as Indians.
Why explorers first made it to America, they thought they were in India?
The meat served at the first Thanksgiving.
What is deer?
The traditional shopping day that follows Thanksgiving every year.
What is Black Friday?
The greatest number of entries on the Harris-Allen family tree?
What is 830? (The number of John Harris' descendants in 2015.)
Five of these were killed for the first Thanksgiving.
What is deer?
Religion followed by most of the Pilgrims.
What is Puritans?
One of the most important crops to Native Americans which probably was not eaten on Thanksgiving.
What is corn?
The percentage of Americans who eat turkey on Thanksgiving (rounded to the closest 10)?
What is 90%
The multi-meat menu centerpiece served on Thanksgiving made popular by an NFL sportscaster?
What is Turducken?
The awards John Harris received for his service and accomplishments to the Civil War era Virginia Volunteers after being mustered out of the army.
What is a horse, a saddle, and a Navy Six Ball pistol?
This many passengers traveled on the Mayflower.
What is 102?
The first place where the Pilgrims landed.
What is Plymouth Rock?
The traditional home of the Native Americans.
What is a Wigwam?
The name of the skin that hangs from a turkey's neck.
What is the wattle?
The on-line shopping day that follows Thanksgiving.
What is Cyber-Monday?
Sally Harris married this man in 1867 who raced horses in the Kentucky Derby
Who is Sherman Allen? ( it is said that he was a Blackhawk Indian)