History
The United States has celebrated Thanksgiving on this day every year since 1942.
What is the fourth Thursday of November?
Many families consider watching this type of sporting event a Thanksgiving tradition.
What is a Football game?
This country celebrates Thanksgiving on the second Monday of October every year.
What is Canada?
(Canada's Thanksgiving coincides with Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples' Day)
This food likely wasn't served at the "First Thanksgiving" in Plymouth.
What is Turkey?
(Wildfowl was listed among the dishes served that day, but it was more likely duck or geese, possibly pigeons or swans)
The percentage of Americans that eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
What is 88%?
These two groups of people were at the "First Thanksgiving" in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Who are the Pilgrims and Wampanog tribe?
Pumpkin, eggs, condensed milk, sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, and ginger are all ingredients used to make this popular Thanksgiving dish.
What is Pumpkin Pie?
Norfolk Island, an external territory of this country, celebrates Thanksgiving on the last Wednesday in November.
What is Australia?
(The holiday was brought to the island by American whalers)
This popular fall Starbucks drink has sold hundreds of millions since its introduction in 2003.
What is the Pumpkin Spice Latte (PSL)?
(The drink is so popular that there are some petitions to make it a year-round drink)
The price of the most expensive Thanksgiving meal recorded.
What is $180,000?
Multiple places claim to have been the sight of the "First Thanksgiving," the most well known being in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The second most common was in this state.
What is Virginia?
(Each of these locations have their own stories that go with them)
This department store presents a televised parade every year that many families consider a tradition to watch.
What is Macy's?
This West African country used to be an American Colony and still celebrates Thanksgiving because of it, though they celebrate it on the first Thursday of November.
What is Liberia?
(Traditions here are very different than our own, some hold a cookout, some go to religious ceremonies, and some just use it as a day to relax)
According to Statista.com, this Thanksgiving pie was the second favorite of Americans in 2022, after pumpkin.
What is pecan pie?
The household hazard that triples every year on Thanksgiving.
What are Kitchen fires?
The year that Thanksgiving became a national holiday in the US.
What is 1863?
(President Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday on the last Thursday in November.)
This tradition supposedly makes your wish come true.
What is getting the bigger part of the turkey's wishbone?
This tradition was started in Ancient Rome!
This country started celebrating Thanksgiving in 1949 after Ambassador Joaquim Nabuco saw Thanksgiving celebrations in Washington.
What is Brazil?
(They celebrate it on the same day as the US)
The red, fleshy thing that hangs from a turkey's beak.
What is the wattle or snood?
The number of turkeys prepared for Thanksgiving annually.
How many is 46 Million?!
While the story of what happened at the "First Thanksgiving" in New England is true, many believe we shouldn't continue telling the story for this reason.
What is because it promotes a false narrative?
(Overall this one moment in history was very different than all other interactions between colonists and Native Americans and can be used to further other false narratives)
Thanksgiving has traditions similar to many holidays from various cultures that celebrate this time of year.
What is Harvest Season?
(This does include the Native Americans)
This country celebrates a Thanksgiving festival for the beginning of harvest season called Umuganura Day on the first Friday of August.
What is Rawanda?
Some Native Americans recognize this instead of Thanksgiving.
What is a Day of Mourning?
How many is 102?