THANKSGIVING
BIRTHS & DEATHS
BIRTHS & DEATHS
B. 1940: CONSIDERED THE MOST INFLUENTIAL MARTIAL ARTIST IN CINEMA HISTORY, THIS CANTONESE-AMERICAN WAS PROFICIENT IN SUCH STYLES AS WING CHUN, TAI CHI, BOXING, JUDO, TAEKWONDO, KARATE, WRESTLING, ARNIS, FENCING, HAPKIDO, AS WELL AS INVENTING JEET KUNE DO.
WHO IS BRUCE LEE?
THE PILGRIMS WERE FORTUNATE TO FIND THIS ENGLISH-SPEAKING NATIVE AMERICAN WHO HAD COINCIDENTALLY BEEN ENSLAVED AND SHIPPED TO ENGLAND BEFORE MAKING HIS WAY BACK TO THE CAPE COD AREA.
WHO IS SQUANTO (TISQUANTUM)?
ON THIS PART OF THE TURKEY YOU MAY FIND ITS SNOOD, CARUNCLES, WATTLE, DEWLAP, AND BEARD.
WHAT IS THEIR HEADS/FACES/NECKS?
WHILE ANKARA IS ITS CAPITAL, TURKEY’S LARGEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL CITY IS THIS ONE, WHICH STRADDLES THE BOSPHORUS STRAIGHT. A TURKISH DELIGHT ON A MOONLIT NIGHT!
WHAT IS ISTANBUL (NOT CONSTANTINOPLE)?
A STANDARD ACCOMPANIMENT TO TURKEY, THIS BERRY-BASED SAUCE IS MADE MORE SOUR OR TART IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND SWEETER IN THE UNITED STATES.
WHAT IS CRANBERRY SAUCE?
THIS LANDMARK SYMBOLIZING THE DISEMBARKATION OF THE MAYFLOWER IS ALSO A GENRE OF MUSIC THAT EVOLVED OUT OF RHYTHM AND BLUES.
WHAT IS PLYMOUTH ROCK AND ROLL?
B. 1955: THIS SCIENCE COMMUNICATOR WAS A MECHANICAL ENGINEER FOR BOEING BEFORE CREATING HIS EPONYMOUS CHILDREN’S SCIENCE SHOW, WINNING 19 EMMY AWARDS.
WHO IS BILL NYE (THE SCIENCE GUY)?
THE NATIVE AMERICANS SHOWED THE PILGRIMS TO USE THESE AS A FERTILIZER FOR THEIR MAIZE.
WHAT ARE FISH?
THE LATIN NAME FOR THE SPECIES IS GALLOPĀVŌ, A COMBINATION OF CHICKEN AND THIS OTHER BIRD, AN HOMAGE TO ITS SPECIES’ SIMILARLY BRILLIANT FAN OF TAIL FEATHERS.
WHAT ARE PEACOCKS?
MUCH OF TURKEY’S GEOGRAPHIC SIGNIFICANCE IS LENT BY ITS DOMINION OVER THE BOSPHORUS STRAIT, WHICH CONNECTS THE AEGEAN SEA IN THE SOUTH TO THIS SEA TO THE NORTH.
WHAT IS THE BLACK SEA?
THE SPICE IN SHRIMP COCKTAIL SAUCE IS LENT BY THIS ROOT VEGETABLE.
WHAT IS HORSERADISH?
THIS NON-PROFIT CARRIES OUT THE DREAMS OF SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN AND IS LOCATED IN THE BASE OF A TURKEY’S NECK.
WHAT IS MAKE-A-WISHBONE?
B. 1942: CONSIDERED BY ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE TO BE THE GREATEST GUITARIST OF ALL TIME, THIS GUITARIST/SINGER/SONGWRITER ONLY PRODUCED THREE ALBUMS BEFORE HIS TRAGIC DEATH IN 1970. ARE YOU EXPERIENCED?
WHO IS JIMI HENDRIX?
THE NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES AROUND WHAT IS NOW NEW ENGLAND, AS WELL AS UP INTO NOW CANADA AND EVEN INTO THE MIDWEST, BELONGED TO THIS GROUP OF CULTURES AND LANGUAGES, SOMETIMES GROUPED AS A SINGLE NATION.
WHAT IS ALGONQUIAN?
THIS FOUNDING FATHER LOBBIED FIERCELY TO MAKE THE TURKEY OUR NATIONAL BIRD.
WHO IS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN?
TURKEY WAS THE CENTRAL SEAT OF THIS MUSLIM EMPIRE SPANNING THE 14TH TO 20TH CENTURIES, WITH SUCH NOTABLE RULERS AS MEHMED II, SELIM I, AND SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT.
WHAT IS THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE?
THIS COMPLEMENTARY DISH AND THANKSGIVING STAPLE IS OFTEN A MEDLEY OF HERBS, SPICES, BREAD CRUMBS, AND SOMETIMES SAUSAGE AND WAS FIRST DOCUMENTED IN ANCIENT ROME.
WHAT IS STUFFING (DRESSING)?
THIS ROLLING STONES SONG ABOUT DESPAIR IS ALSO THE DAY AFTER THANKSGIVING CHARACTERIZED BY RETAIL DEALS.
WHAT IS PAINT IT BLACK FRIDAY?
D. 1978: HE WAS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO BE ELECTED TO PUBLIC OFFICE IN CALIFORNIA AS A MEMBER OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. HE WAS TRAGICALLY ASSASSINATED IN S.F. CITY HALL.
WHO IS HARVEY MILK?
THE NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBE AROUND CAPE COD AND MASSACHUSETTS THAT THE PILGRIMS WERE IN PRIMARY CONTACT WITH.
WHO ARE THE WAMPANOAG?
OWING TO THE SIMILARITY OF THEIR GOBBLING TO HUMAN LAUGHTER, THIS CIVILIZATION FROM WHAT IS NOW MEXICO HEAVILY ASSOCIATED TURKEYS WITH THEIR TRICKSTER GOD TEZCATLIPOCA.
WHO ARE THE AZTECS?
AFTER EMPEROR CONSTANTINE I MOVED THE CAPITAL TO WHAT IS NOW TURKEY, THE EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE FLOURISHED FOR MANY CENTURIES AFTER THE FALL OF THE WESTERN ROMAN EMPIRE, ALTHOUGH IT IS MORE COMMONLY KNOWN AS THIS EMPIRE.
WHAT IS THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE?
THOMAS JEFFERSON IS GIVEN CREDIT FOR INTRODUCING THIS PASTA DISH TO THE UNITED STATES, PICKED UP DURING HIS TRAVELS THROUGH EUROPE.
WHAT IS MACARONI AND CHEESE?
THIS TERM FOR PURSUING MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY HABITS IS ALSO A CLASSIC THANKSGIVING VEGETABLE SIDE DISH TRADITIONALLY TOPPED WITH FRIED ONIONS.
WHAT IS GOING GREEN BEAN CASSEROLE?
D. 1870: AMONG THE MOST WIDELY READ AND PUBLISHED FRENCH AUTHORS, THIS NOVELIST AND PLAYWRIGHT WAS MOST FAMOUS FOR WRITING THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO, THE THREE MUSKETEERS, AND TWENTY YEARS AFTER.
WHO IS ALEXADRE DUMAS?
ONE OF THE LONGEST AND BLOODIEST CONFLICTS BETWEEN THE NATIVE AMERICANS AND MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY BEGAN IN 1675 AND WAS KNOWN AS THIS CHIEF’S WAR, OFTEN THOUGHT OF AS A KING.
WHO IS KING PHILLIP?
FEMALE TURKEYS ARE HENS, INFANTS ARE POULTS OR TURKEYLINGS, AND MALE TURKEYS ARE REFERRED TO BY THIS NAME.
WHAT ARE TOMS?
ITS NAME MEANING “HOLY WISDOM” IN GREEK AND CONSIDERED TO BE ONE OF THE MOST CULTURALLY SIGNIFICANT BUILDINGS IN THE WORLD, THIS BUILDING SERVED AS THE MAIN CATHEDRAL FOR EASTERN ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY, TRANSFORMED INTO A MOSQUE AFTER THE MUSLIM TAKEOVER, BECAME A MUSEUM FOLLOWING EUROPEAN OCCUPATION AFTER WORLD WAR I, AND FINALLY ONCE AGAIN CONSECRATED AS A MOSQUE IN 2020.
WHAT IS THE HAGIA SOPHIA?
BESIDES ACCOMPANYING THANKSGIVING MEALS, GRAVY TOPS FRENCH FRIES AND / OR CHEESE CURDS FOR THIS POPULAR FRENCH-CANADIAN DISH.
WHAT IS POUTINE?
THIS HOZIER HIT IS A CLASSIC THANKSGIVING VEGETABLE SIDE DISH TRADITIONALLY TOPPED WITH MARSHMALLOW.
WHAT IS TOO SWEET POTATO CASSEROLE?