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Sponsored by the famous department store in New York City, it is said to be the largest parade in the world.
What is the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
The act of scoring three consecutive strikes in bowling.
What is "bowling a turkey"?
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This adaptation from 1993 finds the titular family dealing with a nuisance nanny and a thoroughly thoughtless Thanksgiving pageant.
This "game of inches" has featured Thanksgiving day match ups since 1869, just two weeks after the first organized intercollegiate match and six years after the holiday was established nationally.
What is American Football?
The Wampanoag Tribe
What people did the Pilgrims make an alliance with after arriving?
1924. Tying it for the second oldest Thanksgiving parade in the United States.
When was the first Macy's Thanksgiving Parade?
Ankara, not Istanbul despite common misconception.
What is the Capital of Turkey?
This Academy Award winner for Best Picture from 1976 featured a Philadelphia couple going on their first date at an empty ice rink after a Thanksgiving Dinner confrontation.
What is Rocky?
Dubbed "America's Team", this Dallas based NFL team has been playing Thanksgiving Day football since 1966.
What are the Dallas Cowboys?
Ousamequin. He was hoping to gain a treaty with the settlers to defend his people from other encroaching tribes.
Who lead the native Wampanoag Tribe?
Originally introduced in 1928 to replace live zoo animals, they've been a parade staple ever since.
What are large, inflatable balloons?
The oldest documented trot is from 1896 in Buffalo, New York. Since then many towns and cities have held annual long distance footraces in which participants are encouraged to don their feathered fancy dress.
What is a Turkey Trot?
This 1947 movie starring Maureen O'Hara and Natalie Wood starts with the Macy's Santa getting drunk at the Thanksgiving Day Parade and being replaced by none other than Kris Kringle.
What is Miracle on 34th Street (The Big Heart)?
Barry Sanders' NFL team hailing from Detroit, Michigan has been playing Thanksgiving games since 1934.
What are the Detroit Lions?
Popularly known as Squanto, Tisquantum had been a captive in England, learned English and eventually returned to North America.
According to popular myth, which Native American negotiated and taught the Pilgrims?
Traditionally the parade's big finale since 1924 when he was installed in Macy's flagship store on Herald Square. His arrival rings in the Holiday Season.
Consisting of flag or touch football, these unorganized "bowl" games are a holiday tradition in extended families and communities across the United States.
What is a Turkey Bowl?
This American film "Segways" into an action comedy when the titular hero fights off would be mall robbers on Black Friday.
What is Paul Blart: Mall Cop?
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In the "Game of the Century", this midwestern college football team eked out a victory against their bitter rivals, the Oklahoma Sooners, on Thanksgiving Day 1971 on the way to their second consecutive national championship.
Ousamequin and 90 of his men arrived uninvited. Probably because they thought the English settlers’ celebratory target practice was some sort of fighting that had broken out.
How did the Wampanoag arrive at the first Thanksgiving?
Around $12 millions (£8.9 million0 including $500,000 in helium, $9 million in costumes, floats and other assets. Up to $100,000 to construct a new balloon and about 10,000 staffers and volunteers.
How much does the Thanksgiving Parade cost?
The Butterball company runs this help line that receives over 100,000 calls each holiday season.
What is the Butterball Turkey Talk Line?
Who is Charlie Brown?
With his aversion to flying, he's no turkey. This NFL football coach and commentator synonymous with NFL video games has been handing out Turkey Leg Awards to MVPs since 1989.
Who is John Madden?
Three days. After arriving to investigate, Ousamequin and his men helped gather some food and ended up joining the Pilgrim’s celebration with food, games and drinking for days.
How long did the first Thanksgiving celebration last?