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This orange vegetable is a Thanksgiving classic, often mashed and topped with marshmallows.
What are sweet potatoes?
Many families watch this famous parade from New York City that features giant balloons and marching bands.
What is the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade?
In 1863, this president declared Thanksgiving a national holiday during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Every year, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade features this type of giant, inflatable characters, including Snoopy, Pikachu, and Spider-Man.
What are balloons?
This holiday honoring U.S. military veterans is observed every year on November 11th.
What is Veterans Day?
This tart red sauce is one of the few Thanksgiving dishes often served straight from the can.
What is cranberry sauce?
This friendly backyard competition, played with two teams pulling opposite ends of a bird bone, is said to bring good luck to the winner.
What is breaking the wishbone?
These people were the guests of the Pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving.
Who are the Wampanoag?
This animated TV family has celebrated Thanksgiving in multiple episodes.
Who are The Simpsons
The gemstone associated with November birthdays is this golden-yellow stone.
What is topaz?
This bread-based side dish, also called “filling” or “dressing,” is traditionally cooked inside the turkey.
What is stuffing?
Before eating, many families do this to express gratitude for the good things in their lives.
What is giving thanks?
This 1621 feast is often called the “first Thanksgiving” in America.
What is the Plymouth Colony feast?
This popular comic strip created by Charles Schulz shows Charlie Brown trying (and usually failing) to host a Thanksgiving dinner.
What is "Peanuts”?
Every November, this North American bird temporarily becomes a national icon—even receiving an official “presidential pardon.”
What is the turkey?
This green casserole topped with crispy fried onions first appeared in a recipe created by the Campbell Soup Company in 1955.
What is green bean casserole?
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Many families celebrate Thanksgiving by gathering around this, where they share stories, play games, or watch sports together.
What is the living room?
Before Lincoln’s proclamation, different states celebrated Thanksgiving on different days, making it this type of holiday.
What is a regional or unofficial holiday?
This 1947 classic film follows a man named Kris Kringle who partakes in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. He then proves to be a hit as a Santa.
What is “Miracle on 34th Street”?
On the first Sunday in November, most of the U.S. ends daylight saving time and resets clocks in this direction.
What is "back one hour"?
A Thanksgiving staple in the South, this pie is made from nuts that grow on trees native to the region.
What is pecan pie?
Many people take part in this morning tradition—an informal 5K run with a name inspired by the holiday bird.
What is the Turkey Trot?
Sarah Josepha Hale, a magazine editor, is known for doing this for decades to make Thanksgiving a national holiday.
What is lobbying or campaigning for it?
This singer celebrated Thanksgiving in 2013 by performing at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade alongside giant balloons and floats.
Who is Ariana Grande?
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This annual November sports event, held in New York since 1970, is the world’s largest of its kind, drawing tens of thousands of runners.
What is the New York City Marathon?