Food
These mashed vegetables are usually served with gravy on top.
What are potatoes?
This English ship carried 102 passengers to the New World in 1620, leading to the first Thanksgiving.
What is the Mayflower?
Why did the turkey cross the road?
To prove he wasn’t chicken!
This orange pie is a Thanksgiving classic.
What is pumpkin pie?
Wild turkeys have this unusual ability that helps them roost safely in trees at night.
What is the ability to fly short distances and perch in trees?
This green vegetable is often baked with cream of mushroom soup and crispy fried onions.
What is green bean casserole?
This U.S. president officially declared Thanksgiving a national holiday?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Why don’t turkeys eat dessert?
Why don’t turkeys eat dessert?
A sweet pie made with nuts and syrup, popular in the South.
What is pecan pie?
Male turkeys are called this, while females are called hens.
What is a tom?
Traditionally, this sweet condiment served with turkey was made by boiling berries with sugar, a method dating back to the 16th century.
What is cranberry sauce?
This famous New York City parade, featuring giant balloons and marching bands, takes place every Thanksgiving morning.
What is the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade?
Why was the Thanksgiving soup so expensive?
It had 24 carrots.
Small sweet treats filled with fruit or cream.
What are tarts?
Wild turkeys can reach speeds of up to this many miles per hour on the ground.
What is 20 mph?
This small, starchy root vegetable was a staple for both the Wampanoag and Pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving feast.
What is a turnip (or parsnip)?
This Native American tribe celebrated the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims in 1621?
Who are the Wampanoag?
What do you call a turkey the day after Thanksgiving?
Lucky.
This red dessert comes from berries often served on the side of turkey.
What is cranberry dessert (or cranberry pie)?
This is the name for the iridescent feathers on a male turkey’s body, often displayed in a fan shape.
What are tail feathers (or a fan)?
Historically, the Pilgrims may have roasted or boiled this type of bird at the first Thanksgiving, rather than the domesticated turkey we eat today.
What is wild fowl (duck, goose, or turkey)?
He was the governor of Plymouth Colony who wrote about the 1621 harvest feast in Of Plymouth Plantation.
Who is William Bradford?
What do you call Thanksgiving at a cat’s house?
Purrr-key Day!
A dessert made from bread, milk, eggs, and sugar, baked until soft and sweet.
What is bread pudding?
The bright red, fleshy part that hangs from a male turkey’s neck is called this.
What is a wattle?