TURKEY
This is how much the average Thanksgiving turkey weighs.
What is 15 pounds?
This is how long the first Thanksgiving lasted.
What is three days?
This food was not on the menu at the first Thanksgiving.
What is turkey?
The day after Thanksgiving, often referred to as the biggest shopping day of the year, is nicknamed this.
What is Black Friday?
This is when Thanksgiving is celebrated in the United States.
What is the fourth Thursday of November?
This U.S. state produces the most turkeys each year.
What is Minnesota?
This is the name of the ship on which the Pilgrims came to America.
What is the Mayflower?
This is the most popular pie baked at Thanksgiving.
What is pumpkin?
These two football teams play on Thanksgiving Day every year.
Who are the Detroit Lions and the Dallas Cowboys?
This U.S. president is the one who officially declared Thanksgiving a national holiday.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
People from this Western state are the largest consumers of turkey in the United States.
What is California?
The Pilgrims landed at this rock.
What is Plymouth Rock?
Approximately this percentage of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
What is 88%?
This was the first president to grant a pardon to a turkey.
Who is President George H.W. Bush?
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, this is how much the heaviest Thanksgiving turkey on record weighs.
What is 86 pounds?
This Founding Father wanted the turkey to be the national bird of the U.S. instead of the bald eagle.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This Native American tribe was invited to the first Thanksgiving feast.
Who are the Wampanoag?
Americans eat approximately this many turkeys on Thanksgiving.
What is 46 million?
This tradition takes place in New York and can be seen on television every Thanksgiving morning.
What is the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade?
The day after Thanksgiving is the biggest day of the year for this trade profession.
Who are plumbers?
This hotline answers over 100,000 turkey-cooking questions each November and December.
What is the Butterball Turkey Hotline?
This Native American befriended the Pilgrims and served as interpreter between the Pilgrims and the natives at the first Thanksgiving.
Who is Squanto?
This is the average number of calories that are consumed on Thanksgiving.
What is 4,500?
In a tradition that is said to have started 2,400 years ago, this part of the turkey is saved and snapped as a good luck custom.
What is the wishbone?
Sarah Josepha Hale, who campaigned for Thanksgiving to be a national holiday, wrote this famous song.
What is “Mary Had a Little Lamb”?