Food
A meal that consists of roast turkey and many sides including stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn, green beans and cranberry sauce, with pumpkin pie as dessert
What is a Thanksgiving feast?
The feast in 1621 was likely held during this time of year, based on the harvest of corn.
What is Autumn (or Fall)?
The first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was held in this year.
What is 1924?
The average weight of a Thanksgiving turkey.
What is 16 pounds?
This New York City parade, featuring massive balloons, officially marks the start of the holiday season.
What is the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
A pumpkin-based dessert and a Thanksgiving staple. Yum!
What is pumpkin pie?
This President declared a national day of Thanksgiving in 1789, the first such proclamation by a U.S. President.
Who is George Washington?
The Macy's Parade originally featured live animals from this public place, which were replaced by the now-famous balloons.
What is the Central Park Zoo?
This is the weight of sweet potatoes produced in the U.S. (to the nearest billion)?
What is about 3 billion?
DAILY DOUBLE! The U.S. President participates in this unique White House ceremony each year, sparing a feathered friend.
What is the Turkey Pardon?
A berry native to North America, its sauce was first mentioned in a cookbook in 1796 but was served to Union troops by Ulysses S. Grant in 1864.
What is cranberry sauce?
A parade is annually held here to celebrate Thanksgiving and it has the oldest parade to celebrate Thanksgiving in the U.S.!
What is Philadelphia?
These two NFL teams always play a home game on Thanksgiving.
Who are the Detroit Lions and the Dallas Cowboys?
This state produces the most turkeys annually.
What is Minnesota?
She was the magazine editor who spent 17 years lobbying five presidents to establish Thanksgiving as an annual national holiday.
Who is Sarah Josepha Hale?
A type of bread that is often used for stuffing.
What is cornbread (or white bread)?
This Native American man, captured by an Englishman years earlier, acted as a crucial interpreter and guide for the Pilgrims.
Who is Squanto?
DAILY DOUBLE! This popular Christmas carol was originally written as a Thanksgiving song in 1857.
What is Jingle Bells?
The average person consumes between 3,000 and 4,500 of these units of energy during Thanksgiving dinner.
What are calories?
This is the term for the popular, modern meal where friends gather to celebrate the holiday instead of (or in addition to) family.
What is Friendsgiving?
This three-bird dish, involving a chicken inside a duck inside a turkey, is a complex variation on the main course.
What is turducken?
This President refused to issue a Thanksgiving proclamation, viewing it as an improper mixing of church and state.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This 5-mile road race held on Thanksgiving, often for charity, shares its name with the main course of the dinner.
What is the Turkey Trot?
The number of places in the U.S. named after Thanksgiving’s main course, turkey.
What is 4?
The Monday following Thanksgiving weekend is known as Cyber Monday, a retail event focused on sales made via this method.
What is the Internet (or online shopping)?