Thanksgiving Jeopardy

Football

100

This Thanksgiving menu item is a gift given to the winning teams players after the game to eat on TV.

Turkey Leg

200

This 1990's Thanksgiving-Day-regular is also the NFL's all-time leading rusher.

Emmitt Smith

300

This division rival matched up against the Lions in the first Thanksgiving day bout. 

The Chicago Bears

400

This Thanksgiving-Day-Regular "America's Team's" all-time leading passer is also a familiar broadcasting voice.

Tony Romo

500

This team formed in 1995 is 2-9 and is the only team to never play on Thanksgiving.

The Jacksonville Jaguars

Pilgrim

100

This is the year that the Pilgrims voyaged across the Atlantic on the Mayflower.

1620

200

The First Thanksgiving was a celebration that lasted this many days.

Three

300

This Massachusetts city was the target destination for the Pilgrims voyage on the Mayflower and held the very first Thanksgiving feast.

Plymouth

400

This man became the "leader" of the pilgrims during their formative years.

William Bradford

500

This Native American tribe joined the Pilgrims in the first Thanksgiving. 

Wampanoag

Food

100

Typically the President of the United States do this to certain lucky turkeys to keep them from being eaten. 

Pardon

200

In two years, this holiday food item won't be necessary for our holidays anymore.

Sparkling Grape Juice

300

If you lived in the south, you would most likely call 'stuffing', this.

Dressing

400

Although incorrect, many people blame this amino acid found in turkey to put them to sleep after Thanksgiving dinner.

(L)Tryptophan

500

We can thank this indigenous group for domesticating the centerpiece of Thanksgiving meals around America.

The Maya Civilization

Family

100

Most people thought food exits our bodies in the same way until Brian discovered this new way for cranberry sauce to exit. 

Through his Nose

200

Papa thanks God for this every year before we eat. 

The Money

300

This peculiar food that is often played with at the table is a staple to our holiday meals.

Black Olives

400

This lengthy, cutthroat, competition made it's debut for our family this year.

Fantasy Football

500

This game that used to be played would be quite fitting right now.  

Trivial Pursuit

Black Friday

100

This "holiday" continues the Black Friday frenzy the next week, through the internet.

Cyber Monday

200

The term "Black Friday" originates from Police when crowds of people came to this "brotherly" city to shop.

Philadelphia

300

The day after Thanksgiving is also coined this name due to the surge in calls for plumbers.

Brown Friday

400

Previous to it's current name, Black Friday was called this. 

Big Friday

500

Thanksgiving used to be declared by the President on the last Thursday in November until retailers petitioned this mid-to-early 1900's President to move the holiday one week earlier.

Franklin D. Roosevelt