Turkey!
Traditions
Black Friday
Side Dishes
Fun Facts
100

Over 70% of the turkey is this type of meat.

What is white meat?

100

This is considered the busiest travel day of the year.

What is Thanksgiving Day?

100

This broad category is the most popular of items purchased on Black Friday.

What are electronic devices?

100

Contrary to what its name may allude to, this vegetable can be eaten by diabetics because of its low glycemic index.

What are sweet potatoes?

100

The year 1621 is when this group of people had their first celebration feast which morphed into the present day Thanksgiving.

Who are the Pilgrims?

200

This founding father wanted the turkey to be our national bird instead of the eagle.

Who is Benjamin Franklin?

200

This popular Thanksgiving Day televised event began in 1924.

What is The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?

200

Black Friday retail sales are exceeded on this day of the week before Christmas.

What is Saturday?

200

This name of the boxed stuffing introduced in 1972 also shares its name with a common kitchen appliance.

What is Stove Top?

200

In 1939, Thanksgiving was celebrated on the ____ Thursday in November; not the fourth.

What is the third?

300

There are four towns in the US named “Turkey.” They are in Texas, Louisiana, North Carolina and this state where they do not observe Daylight Savings.

What is Arizona?

300

This popular peanuts character has appeared in the most Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parades.

Who is Snoopy?

300

Police Officers in this Pennsylvania city coined the term "Black Friday" originally to describe the chaos that ensued the day after Thanksgiving.

What is Philadelphia?

300

This traditional Thanksgiving side dish was originally used by Native Americans for dyeing their fabrics, pottery and for medicinal purposes.

What are cranberries?

300

This common Thanksgiving vegetable was not yet available to the Pilgrims during their first Thanksgiving Feast.

What is the potato?

400

This frozen concoction was invented in 1953 when Swanson overestimated how many turkeys it would sell for Thanksgiving.

What is a TV Dinner?

400

The Friday after Thanksgiving is the busiest day for this occupational tradesman.

What is a Plumber?

400

Within the last 100 years, "Black Friday" became a popular term in this decade.

What are the 1960s?

400

Over 40 million casseroles made from this vegetable is served on Thanksgiving Day.

What are green beans?

400

This Native American was honored at the first Thanksgiving for teaching the settlers about the land and survival.

Who is Squanto?

500

In 1863, this President declared Thanksgiving a National Holiday.

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

500

Over 768 millions pounds of this Thanksgiving Day staple is produced in the US each year.

What are Cranberries?

500

This is the percentage of the US population who go shopping on Black Friday.

What is 36%? (Acceptable tolerance is 30-40%)

500

This is the most mentioned Thanksgiving side dish on social media sites.

What is Stuffing?

500

Sarah Josepha Hale earned the nickname "Mother of Thanksgiving" after lobbying for three decades to declare Thanksgiving a national holiday. She also wrote this popular nursery rhyme.

What is Mary Had a Little Lamb?