Turkey
The sound male turkeys make.
What is gobble gobble?
This president was the first to spare a turkey's life.
Who is John F. Kennedy in 1963?
The award given to the MVP of the Thanksgiving game.
What is the Turkey Leg Award?
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade originally celebrated this holiday until the parade was renamed in 1927.
What is Christmas?
This retailer is the most dangerous place to shop on Black Friday.
What is Walmart?
57.1% of all Black Friday incidents occur here.
Female turkeys are called hens. This is what male turkeys are called.
What are toms?
This president made "pardoning" a turkey a White House tradition.
Who is George H.W. Bush in 1989?
The decade of the first televised Thanksgiving game.
What is the 1950s?
Black and white television in 1953. Color television in 1965.
This cartoon cat was the first character balloon to fly in the parade.
Who is Felix the Cat?
In hundreds, the amount of money spent by the average adult on Black Friday.
What is $500?
People from this state are the largest consumers of turkey in the United States.
What is California?
This president officially declared Thanksgiving a national holiday.
Who is Abraham Lincoln in 1863?
These 2 NFL teams have won both the Thanksgiving game and the Super Bowl in the same year.
Who are the Dallas Cowboys and the Miami Dolphins?
Dallas in 1978, 1994, and 1996. Miami in 1973.
Macy's is one of the largest consumers of helium in the world, only second to this consumer.
Who is the U.S. Government?
Helium is used by NASA and the Department of Defense.
The decade retailers began opening at midnight.
What is the 2010s?
2011 to be exact and included retailers such as Target, Kohl's, Macy's, and Best Buy.
The name of the skin that hangs from a turkey's neck.
What is the wattle?
This president unsuccessfully moved the date of Thanksgiving.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939?
Concerned it would cut the holiday shopping season short, he decreed Thanksgiving be celebrated a week early, calling it "Franksgiving." It was only adopted in 23 states and Congress officially moved it back in 1941.
As of 2018, this NFL team has the most wins on Thanksgiving.
Who are the Detroit Lions?
37 total. Dallas has the 2nd most wins with 32.
This cartoon dog has appeared the most times in the parade.
Who is Snoopy?
He's appeared 39 times and had 8 unique balloon variations, which is also the most of any character.
The profession that is the busiest the day after Thanksgiving.
What are plumbers?
This state produces the most turkeys each year.
This president received a live raccoon as a Thanksgiving gift.
Who is Calvin Coolidge in 1926?
It was meant to be eaten, but the Coolidge family adopted it as a pet and named it Rebecca.
This NFL team has never played a game on Thanksgiving.
Who are the Jacksonville Jaguars?
The parade was cancelled during WWII because of this material shortage.
What is rubber?
Macy's deflated the balloons and donated them to the government. Balloons today are made of polyurethane fabric.
This 1869 financial crisis first recorded the term "Black Friday."
What is the gold market crash?