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100
The most popular main course served on Thanksgiving.
What is turkey?
100
The name for the shopping day immediately after Thanksgiving.
What is Black Friday?
100
The orange vegetable commonly used as a symbol of Thanksgiving.
What is a pumpkin?
100
The name of the ship the Pilgrims boarded to start their journey that ended in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
What is the Mayflower?
100
What is the type of food which was NOT served at the first Thanksgiving.
corn?
pie?
seafood?
Pie
100
The first US President to order a national day of Thanksgiving.
Who was George Washington?
100
Which NFL team has played nearly double the amount of Thanksgiving games than any other team?
Detroit Lions
82 Games (as of 2021)
200
The most popular Thanksgiving dessert.
What is pumpkin pie?
200
The day and month of the year on which we traditionally celebrate Thanksgiving.
What is the fourth Thursday of November?
200
The indigenous people of North America who are a common symbol of Thanksgiving.
Who are Native Americans.
Double points if you said "Wampanoag tribe".
200
The number of women who prepared and then attended the first Thanksgiving meal.
What is 4?
Eleanor Billington, Elizabeth Hopkins, Mary Brewster, and Susanna (White) Winslow
200
What is The month of the year that the Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving Day?
October
200
The first US President to officially issue a pardon to a Thanksgiving turkey.
Who was John F Kennedy?
200
Other than the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys, which team has the most Thanksgiving appearances?
Who are the Green Bay Packers?
Who are the Washington Redskins?
Who are the Chicago Bears?
Green Bay Packers
36 games played
300
A red fruit popular as a side dish for Thanksgiving dinner, it is either served whole or as a jelly.
What are cranberries?
300
The part of the turkey that two people pull apart to see if their wish will be granted.
What is the wishbone?
300
The English Separatists who came to the United States in 1620 for religious purposes.
Who were the Pilgrims?
300
The reason the Pilgrims felt they had to leave England and perhaps the real reason they "got lost" on their way to Jamestown.
What is religious persecution?
The Pilgrims were Separatists, America’s Calvinist Protestants, who rejected the institutional Church of England. They believed that the worship of God must originate in the inner man, and that forms of worship prescribed by man interfered with the establishment of a true relationship with God. Their approach to fancy items used by other Christians to worship did not endear them to their neighbors.
300
What is The speed that turkeys can run when scared?
20mph
300
The US President who made turkey pardoning an annual event.
Who was President George Herbert Walker Bush?
300
Thanksgiving football games were not played in the years 1941 to 1944 because of which worldwide event happening during this period of time.
World War II
400
A vegan, vegetarian, non-meat food popular with non-meat eaters on Thanksgiving.
What is tofurky?
400
The most popular alternative to turkey on Thanksgiving.
What is ham?
400
A bird native to North America that is large enough to feed a family and which can have a bad disposition.
What is a wild turkey?
400
The year of the first Thanksgiving.?
What is 1621?
Double points if you can identify the year that the English first settled in Connecticut.
400
What is The name of the Native American who spoke English and was especially helpful to the Pilgrims?
Squanto
400
The US President who declared two Thanksgivings in one year.
Who was President James Madison?
400
The year of the first Thanksgiving NFL game which year included the Canton Bulldogs vs the Akron Pros?
What is 1902?
What is 1920?
What is 1936?
1920
500
The best way to tell if a cranberry is ripe.
What is "See if it bounces"?
500
A race many people run on Thanksgiving morning.
What is a turkey trot?
OR
What is the Manchester Road Race?
500
The conical-shaped basket that is generally pictured filled with fruits and vegetables, its origins date back to the classical world and a story about the god Zeus.
What is a cornucopia?
500
The number of days the first Thanksgiving celebration lasted.
What is three days?
500
where does Thanksgiving rank among America's favorite holidays?
#2
1-4 respectively: Christmas, Thanksgiving, Mother's Day, Easter
500
The US President, author and architect who refused to celebrate Thanksgiving as a national holiday.
Who was President Thomas Jefferson?
He opposed days of Thanksgiving because they were remnants of Britain's reign over the American colonies.
500
Name as many of the 3 active NFL teams who have played on Thanksgiving but never won as you can.
(More points will be awarded if more correct teams are guessed)
Tampa Bay Buccaneers (0-1)
Cleveland Browns (0-3)
Cincinnati Bengals (0-1)
600
The number of calories consumed on average per person on Thanksgiving dinner in the United States.
What is 4,500 calories?
600
The number of turkeys consumed every year at Thanksgiving.
What is 46 million?
600
The type of meat the native Americans brought to the first Thanksgiving.
What is venison?
OR
What is deer?
600
The cause of about one-half of the Pilgrim population to die off in their first year living in New England.
What is sickness and starvation?
But through prayer and hard work, with the assistance of their Indian friends, the Pilgrims reaped a rich harvest in the summer of 1621.
600
What is The loose red skin attached to the underside of a turkey’s beak called?
the wattle
600
The president who proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday.
Who was President Abraham Lincoln?
600
What is The only active NFL franchise to have never played on Thanksgiving?
Jacksonville Jaguars