History of Thanksgiving
Please Pass the Gr"avy"
Giving Th"ank"s
Squanto
Thanksgiving Before and After
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Thanksgiving was appointed the date of the last Thursday in November by this honest president in 1863

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

200

The top weight class in professional boxing with no weight limit

What is heavyweight?

200

Life is like a box of chocolates to this actor who recently played the lead role in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Who is Tom Hanks?

200

Squanto returned to North America in 1614 with this English explorer

Who is John Smith?

200

A sweet squash dessert common on Thanksgiving and a circular graph divided into slices to visualize statistical proportions

What is a pumpkin pie chart?

400

Thanksgiving in this country was officially set to the second Monday of October by Governor General Vincent Massey in 1957

What is Canada?

400

This American folk hero of many talents was known as the “King of the Wild Frontier”

Who is Davy Crockett?

400

Construction of this team’s stadium in New York City in 2009 cost about $2.3 billion; the team’s player salaries since 2009 have already out-totaled that mark. Worth it? You be the Judge.

Who are the New York Yankees?

400

Squanto was kidnapped and taken to Málaga, a port city on the southern coast of this country

What is Spain?

400

A companion of Robin Hood who returned Squanto to America

Who is Little John Smith?

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According to legend, Colchester, Connecticut postponed their Thanksgiving feast for an entire week in 1705 because a molasses shortage meant they could not bake this Thanksgiving treat

What is pumpkin pie?

600

A short-tailed rodent, such as a guinea pig or capybara

What is a cavy?

600

Don’t forget your SCUBA gear for this ABC reality show where entrepreneurs present their ideas to potential investors

What is Shark Tank?

600

Squanto’s story is brought to life in this book written by Paul McCusker, which was also adapted into a Focus on the Family radio drama

What is The Legend of Squanto?

600

A freckled character from A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and the director of Wonder Woman

Who is Peppermint Patty Jenkins?

800

Historians argue that the first "Thanksgiving" may have occurred in this state, nearly 60 years before Plymouth, when a Spanish fleet came ashore and had a feast to "celebrate the arrival and give thanks for God's providence"

What is Florida?

800

What makes a good man? Try asking this English rock band of Kelvin Swaby, Dan Taylor, Spencer Page, and Chris Ellul, known for songs such as “Short Change Hero” and “How You Like Me Now”

What is The Heavy?

800

What is the mission, Vlad? Try asking John B in this show that won the People’s Choice Awards' Bingeworthy Show of 2020 award

What is Outer Banks?

800

Squanto was also known by this other, longer name; the ending of which includes a word meaning “the smallest quantity of radiant energy, equal to Planck’s constant times the frequency of the associated radiation”

What is Tisquantum?

800

The main ingredient in a classic Thanksgiving casserole and a giant cushion chair whose shape is set by the user

What is green bean bag chair?

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Marcus Urann is hailed as the first to can jellied cranberry sauce...he would go on to found this "American agricultural cooperative of growers of cranberries and grapefruit" whose headquarters can be found in Plymouth County, Massachusetts

What is Ocean Spray?

1000

On May 29th, 2020, Kenneth J. Braithwaite became the 77th to hold this office

What is Secretary of the Navy?

1000

“Take control of steel beasts and battle through historic locations where strategy means victory” in this MMO game developed by Wargaming in 2010

What is World of Tanks?

1000

Squanto was the last surviving member of this tribe, not to be confused with a similarly spelled river in Maryland

What is Patuxet?

1000

An annual Thanksgiving procession in New York City and a John Williams composition featured in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

What is the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade of the Ewoks?