Thanksgiving History 📜
This year is remembered as the year of the very first Thanksgiving.
What is 1621?
This bird is traditionally the centerpiece of a Thanksgiving meal.
What is a turkey?
This city hosts the famous Thanksgiving Day Parade broadcast on NBC.
What is New York City?
In the sitcom Friends, this character famously wore a turkey on their head.
Who is Monica?
Turkeys make this distinctive gobbling sound — but only males do it.
What is gobble?
The Pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving in this U.S. state.
What is Massachusetts?
This orange vegetable pie is a Thanksgiving dessert favorite.
What is pumpkin pie?
The day after Thanksgiving is known for shopping deals and sales.
What is Black Friday?
This 1987 movie starring Steve Martin and John Candy centers on trying to get home for Thanksgiving.
What is Planes, Trains and Automobiles?
The flap of skin under a turkey’s chin is called this.
What is a wattle?
This Native American tribe celebrated the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims.
Who are the Wampanoag?
Cranberry sauce is typically served on this part of the Thanksgiving plate.
What is a side dish?
Every year, the U.S. president “pardons” one of these animals.
What is a turkey?
In the Peanuts special, this character makes toast and popcorn for Thanksgiving dinner.
Who is Charlie Brown?
Wild turkeys can actually do this surprising thing — unlike their farm-raised cousins.
What is fly?
This ship brought the Pilgrims to America.
What is the Mayflower?
This bread-based dish is often stuffed inside the turkey or served separately.
👉 What is stuffing (or dressing)?
What sport is played every Thanksgiving Day.
What is football?
This animated turkey movie released in 2013 features birds traveling back in time to stop Thanksgiving.
What is Free Birds?
Benjamin Franklin once suggested that the turkey should be this instead of the bald eagle.
What is the national bird?
This U.S. president declared Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The wishbone tradition says the person with the bigger piece gets this.
What is a wish (or good luck)?
What is the name of the famous Thanksgiving Day Parade and in what decade did this Parade start?
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade; in the 1920s (1924)?
This classic singer performed “Alice’s Restaurant” — a humorous Thanksgiving song.
Who is Arlo Guthrie?
This U.S. state produces the most turkeys every year.
What is Minnesota?