The Meal
A food that was NOT eaten at the first Thanksgiving.
What is turkey?
The Wampanoag tribe made one of these with the pilgrims in the hopes that they would help defend them against the Narragansett tribe.
What is an alliance?
This day after Thanksgiving kicks off the holiday shopping season.
What is Black Friday?
This is how you feel when you're conscious and appreciative of what you have in your life. (On Thanksgiving, we reflect on what we feel it about.)
The year Christopher Columbus arrived in North America for the first time.
What is 1492?
Two Thanksgiving foods that ARE native to North America.
What are turkey and cranberries?
Native Americans likely showed up to the first Thanksgiving because they heard this sound.
What is gunfire?
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade takes place every year in this city.
What is New York City?
Thanksgiving is celebrated on this day every year.
What is the fourth Thursday in November?
The pilgrims arrived in North American in this year.
What is 1621?
Two Thanksgiving foods that are NOT native to North America.
This president declared Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The Dallas Cowboys and the Detroit Lions have to work every year on Thanksgiving, because they play this sport.
What is (American) football?
The first Thanksgiving was celebrating this (récolte in French.)
What is a harvest?
This is how long the journey took from England to America on the Mayflower (which 50% of passengers survived.)
What is 66 days?
It's possibly the newest traditional Thanksgiving food after becoming popularized in the Southern US.
What is mac and cheese?
This is the reason that Tisquantum (Squanto) already spoke English and was able to help the pilgrims grow food.
What is enslavement?
You break this to see who will have good luck for the next year (or who will have their wish come true.)
What is a wishbone?
In the United States, Thanksgiving is this type of holiday (laïque in French.)
The pilgrims were exiled from England and lived in this country before eventually traveling to North America.
What is the Netherlands? (Also ok: Holland.)
It's the time of day that most Americans traditionally eat their Thanksgiving meal.
What is the afternoon?
The estimated percentage of the Native American population died that in the first 100-150 years of European contact.
What is 80-95%?
Parades normally feature a lot of these decorated moving vehicles (although the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade usually features giant inflatable balloons instead!)
What is a float?
The busiest travel day of the year in the United States.
What is the Sunday after Thanksgiving?
The year Amerigo Vespucci came to North America for the first time.
What is 1497?