Thanksgiving Traditions
Thanksgiving Symbols
Presidential Thanksgiving
100
The company Butterball receives this many calls each year about turkeys
What is Over 100,000?
100
Give the orange vegetable commonly used as a symbol of Thanksgiving
What is pumpkin?
100
This President first ordered a national day of Thanksgiving
Who is George Washington?
200
This is the busiest day for plumbers
What is Day after Thanksgiving?
200
Name this ...
What is Cornucopia ?
200
Name the first president to "pardon" a turkey?
Who is John F Kennedy?
300
The busiest shopping day after Thanksgiving
What is Black Friday?
300
Meaning of cornucopia in regards to Thanksgiving
What is Appreciation for abundance, and a bountiful harvest?
300
Name of President who made turkey pardoning an annual event?
Who is George H.W. Bush?
400
Canada's Thanksgiving Day falls in this month
What is October?
400
True or False - This was served at the first Thanksgiving
What is True?
The Wampanoag people taught the Pilgrims in Plymouth how to plant and cultivate corn to survive the winter.
400
Name the President who refused to celebrate Thanksgiving as a national holiday
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
500
The amount of turkeys consumed every Thanksgiving
a) 46,000
b) 4.6 million
c) 46 million
d) 460 million
What is 46 million?
500
Name this...
What are Cranberries?
Cranberries are one of the few fruits native to North America. Cranberry harvesting season is between mid-September and early November.
Since cranberries were so important and widely available it is believed that they were present at the first Thanksgiving.
500
Name the president who received a raccoon as a Thanksgiving gift
Who is President Calvin Coolidge? He received a live raccoon for Thanksgiving in 1926. It was intended to be dinner, but the president's family ended up keeping the raccoon as a pet. They named it Rebecca.
600
This Christmas song was originally written for Thanksgiving
What is Jingle Bells?
600
This meat was brought by the native Americans to the first Thanksgiving
What is Deer (Venison)?
600
Name the president who proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday
Who is Abraham Lincoln?