Turkey Trivia
The First Thanksgiving
November News
Pumpkin Points
Fall Facts
100
This part of the turkey is saved and snapped as a superstitious good luck custom.
What is the wishbone?
100
The first Thanksgiving lasted this many days.
What is 3 days?
100
This is the November birthstone.
What is the topaz?
100
This popular pumpkin item is often served as dessert on Thanksgiving Day.
What is pumpkin pie?
100
This term means "horn of plenty".
What is cornucopia?
200
A baby turkey is called this.
What is a poult?
200
This was the name of the famous rock where the Pilgrims first landed.
What is Plymouth Rock?
200
Originally, these events became important to the Thanksgiving celebration to kick off the holiday shopping season!
What is parades?
200
An old wive's tale says that pumpkins are a cure for these marks on a person's face.
What are freckles?
200
Indian corn is for decoration purposes only and not for cooking. True or False?
What is True?
300
Turkey eggs are this color.
What is brown? (tan, really)
300
The Indians who were invited to the Thanksgiving feast were of the Wampanoag tribe, and this was their chief's name.
What is Massasoit?
300
The first Thanksgiving football game was started in 1934 by this team.
What is Detroit Lions?
300
Pumpkins are really a member of this family.
What is squash?
300
The one night a year where taking candy from strangers is totally acceptable.
What is Halloween? (trick or treat)
400
A full grown turkey has approximately 3500 of these.
What are feathers?
400
This is the name of the ship on which the Pilgrims came over.
What is The Mayflower?
400
Felix the Cat was the first of this item in the 1927 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
What is balloon?
400
Pumpkins are 90% what?
What is water?
400
These trees stay green because their leaves are tightly rolled into needle shapes that are coated with a thick, wax-like protection against evaporation and cold.
What are evergreen trees?
500
The dangling skin under a turkey's neck is called this.
What is a waddle?
500
In the early 1600's, the pilgrims didn't have this utensil to eat their Thanksgiving meal with.
What is a fork? (It hadn't been invented yet!)
500
This President was the first to establish Thanksgiving as a legal national holiday to be held the 4th Thursday in November
Who is Roosevelt?
500
Pumpkins are rich in this vitamin.
What is Vitamin A?
500
On cool, clear fall evenings, you have the best chance of seeing the aurora borealis, also called the __________ Lights, show of spectacular colors in the night sky.
What is Northern?