Thanksgiving Food Anagrams
Bird: TRY UKE
What is TURKEY?
This NFL team always plays the first game on Thanksgiving day, having helped start the tradition in the 1930s.
Who are the Detroit Lions?
In this 1987 comedy, Steve Martin and John Candy endure rental car fires, missing luggage, and a very awkward motel room on their way home for Thanksgiving
What is Planes, Trains and Automobiles?
This famous speech, delivered by Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863, was only about two minutes long.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
In 2020s slang, this term describes something unbelievably amazing or hilarious—so good it supposedly takes your life.
What is "dead"?
Starch: MAYS
What are YAMS?
What is WWII?
This classic 1947 holiday film begins on Thanksgiving Day, when a kindly old man fills in for a drunk department store Santa during the Macy’s parade.
What is Miracle on 34th Street?
Observed every year on November 11, this U.S. holiday began as Armistice Day after the end of World War I.
What is Veterans Day?
In 1920s flapper slang, this word meant something excellent or stylish—long before it described a buzzing insect.
What is "the bees knees"?
Classic dessert: PINK EMU PIP
What is PUMPKIN PIE?
DAILY DOUBLE
With 455 yds, this Cowboys QB now announcer holds the record for highest single game passing yards on Thanksgiving, set in 1998
What a maze, in this 2013 thriller, Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal face a Thanksgiving Day nightmare when their two young daughters disappear.
What is "Prisoners"?
November was originally the ninth month of the year in the Roman calendar, before these two "early" months were added
What are January and February?
1980s slang term for approval or enthusiasm often shouted by skateboarders and BMX riders launching off ramps.
What is "rad"?
DAILY DOUBLE
Veggie bake: agreeableness recon
This annual Ivy college rivalry game, first played in 1884, was once so synonymous with Thanksgiving that newspapers simply called it “The Game.”
What is Yale v Princeton?
The 2003 indie film "Pieces of April" starred this actress, and follows her as a young woman trying—and failing spectacularly—to prepare her first Thanksgiving dinner for her traumatic and non traditional family, maybe foreshadowing her own subsequent tumultous releationship with Tom Cruise and Scientology.
Who is Katie Holmes?
These perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, symbolizing joy, friendship, remembrance and loyalty, is traditionally associated with November as a birth flower in many cultures.
What are chrysanthemums?
In 1970s disco slang, this electric, spacey, word meant something was unbelievable, amazing.
What is "far out"?
With the ridges please: aberrancy curse
What is CRANBERRY SAUCE?
This alliterative award including a word usually associated with horses and an alternative name for a turkey, started in the early 2000s is awarded to the MVP of thanksgiving day games
What is the Galloping Gobbler?
"No Jenny don't jump!", or else you'll miss this 2009 animated comedy features a time-travel plot in which turkeys attempt to erase Thanksgiving from history entirely.
What is "Free Birds"?
This meteor shower peaks in mid November each year with the space rock originating from the comet Tempel-Tuttle?
What are the Leonids?
This 1930s–40s underworld slang term for a safecracker or professional burglar, contains a poultry product
What is "yegg"?