Fun Facts
Which of the following was NOT on the menu on the very first Thanksgiving?
A. Venison
B. Pumpkin
C. Goose
D. Turkey
What is Turkey?
When the Mayflower set sail.
What is 1620?
Where the first thanksgiving took place.
Where is Plymouth, Massachusett?
The name of the Native American who taught the pilgrims how to grow corn and catch fish.
Who was Squanto?
Why the passengers wanted to come to the new world.
True or False: Thanksgiving is only an American holiday.
The agreement signed by those on the Mayflower signed and how many signed it.
The year the first thanksgiving took place.
What is 1621?
The Pilgrims were members of this religious group.
A. Separatists
B. Catholicism
C. Puritanism
What are separatists?
The name of the state the colony was in which the pilgrims established.
What is Massachusetts?
There are ___ towns in the USA named “Turkey”.
A. 40
B. 14
C. 4
D. 44
What are 4?
Where the pilgrims left to travel to the new world.
What is England?
How long the first thanksgiving lasted.
What is 3 days?
The person who became governor of the Plymouth Colony after John Carver died.
Who was William Bradford?
The name of the boat that was supposed to take people to the new world in addition to the mayflower but had a leak before the departure.
What is the Speedwell?
The first president to pardon a turkey on thanksgiving day to go and live out the rest of it’s days on a farm.
Who was John F. Kennedy?
People of which religion were on the Mayflower? What were they called?
What are puritans?
What president declared Thanksgiving as a National Holiday?
A. George Bush
B. Abraham Lincoln
C. James Monroe
D. George Washington
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
The name of the Native American tribe that helped the pilgrims survive.
Who were the Wampanoag?
The ocean the pilgrims crossed on the Mayflower.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
How many pumpkin pies do Americans eat about on Thanksgiving Day?
A. 10 million
B. 25 million
C. 50 million
D. 100 million
What is 50 Million?
How long the voyage from New England to the New World took.
What is 66 days?
The utensil that was not present on the first Thanksgiving.
A. Fork
B. Spoon
C. Spork
D. Knife
What is a fork?
The amount of people who arrived in Plymouth Rock in 1620.
What is 102?
Why the first thanksgiving was celebrated.
What sit to thank God for the bountiful harvest- for all He had done!