Thanksgiving
A Little Bit of This
Kendrick Lamar
A Little Bit of That
Tradition
100
What year was the first Thanksgiving? (+/- 20 years)
1621 (1601-1641)
100
Name this Macy's Thanksgiving Day balloon
Sponge Bob / Sponge Bob Square Pants
100
What year was Kendrick Lamar born? (plus or minus one year)
(June 17) 1987, acceptable answers are 1986, 1987, 1988.
100
Finish the sequence of numbers: 0-5-1-6-0-_
7 (Sophia's birthday! May 16, 2007)
100
Which 2 NFL teams traditionally host Thanksgiving day football games?
Detroit Lions & Dallas Cowboys
200
Was Turkey on the menu for the first Thanksgiving?
no
200
Finish this sequence of numbers: 8-6-7-5-_-_-_
3-0-9 ("Jenny, Jenny", Tommy Tutone, 1981)
200
What is Kendrick Lamar's real last name? a) Duckworth b) Jackson c) Osmonda d) Robinson
Kendrick Lamar Duckworth
200
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200
The first NFL Thanksgiving Day games began in what decade?
1920s (began in 1920)
300
What year was Thanksgiving declared a national holiday? Plus of minus 5 years. And for an additional 300 point bonus, who was the president (only positive points for the bonus)
1863 (1858-1868), bonus for Lincoln
300
Name this wrestler (hint, he's not a bass master)
Hillbilly Jim
300
Where was Kendrick Lamar born and raised? a) Chicago, IL; b) Compton, CA; c) Philadelphia, PA; d) Baltimore, MD
b) Compton, CA
300
Name this Macy's Thanksgiving Day balloon
Felix the Cat
300
In 1876, which two college teams began the tradition of college teams playing on Thanksgiving Day? (get only one of the two right and points are zero, get neither right and get minus 300)
Yale & Princeton
400
Who wrote 17 letters to the president to get Thanksgiving declared a holiday? For an addtional bonus of 400 points (only positive), for what else is she most famously known?
Sarah Josepha Hale; she wrote "Mary Had a Little Lamb".
400
Name this fish
If you said trout you get 400 points,
if you said Sunappee trout you get 800 points
400
What was Kendrick Lamar's stage name in his early teen years? a) Black Hippy; b) Good Kid; c) K-Dot; d) Top Dawg
c) K-Dot
400
Bobby Hull (Sr.)
400
The last currently active NFL team to never play on Thanksgiving (through 2019) is which of these: Bengals; Buccaneers; Jaguars; Panthers; Texans
Jaguars : Bengals - 2010, lost; Buccaneers - 2006, lost; Panthers - 2015, won; Texans - 2012, won
500
Who formalized turkey pardoning by a US president?
George H.W. Bush (1989)
500
Name this Macy's Thanksgiving Day balloon (ask Dani or Bryanna and if you get it right 400 points)
Super Saiyan Blue Goku / or just Goku / or Blue Goku
500
What did Kendrick Lamar earn in 2018? a) BET Lifetime Achievement Award; b) Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Honoree; c) Pulitzer Prize for Music; d) Library of Congress Award for Music History
c) Pulitzer Prize for Music Fyi, in 2018, former winner (1970) Charles Wuorinen denounced the jury for awarding the music award to hip-hop artist Kendrick Lamar, telling the New York Times the decision constituted: "the final disappearance of any societal interest in high culture."
500
Name this fish
Mahi mahi
500
What is the Cowboys' Thanksgiving Day game winning percentage? (pus or minus 5 percent)
60.6 (points for 56 - 66, unless Jim gives the answer with more significant figures in which case it will be 55.6-65.6)