Thanksgiving Foods
This is the most popular main course on Thanksgiving
What is turkey?
The company Butterball receives this many calls each year about turkeys
What is Over 100,000?
Name of the ship the Pilgrims boarded to start their journey to Plymouth, Massachusetts
What is the Mayflower?
This U.S. state produces the most sweet potatoes
a) North Carolina
b) South Carolina
c) Georgia
What is North Carolina?
This is the busiest day for plumbers
What is Day after Thanksgiving?
What town canceled Thanksgiving because they couldn't make pumpkin pies?
Colchester, Connecticut
A frigid bout of cold weather in the middle of October led to the Connecticut River freezing, so settlers couldn’t get their usual liquid sugar shipped on time from across the pond. Thus, the townspeople decided to postpone the holiday for a week in 1705.
This eating utensil was not used by the Pilgrims to eat Thanksgiving dinner
What is a fork?
The busiest shopping day after Thanksgiving
What is Black Friday?
How many women were at the first Thanksgiving meal?
5
This food was included at the first Thanksgiving BUT is rarely a part of a modern Thanksgiving meal
What is seafood?
Canada's Thanksgiving Day falls in this month
What is October?
What product owes its existence to Thanksgiving?
T.V. Dinner
Recliner
Hula Hoop
Butter
A. T.V. Dinner
In 1953, someone at Swanson misjudged the number of frozen turkeys it would sell that Thanksgiving -- by 26 TONS! So they came up with a brilliant plan: to slice up the meat and repackage with some trimmings on the side. And so the first TV dinner was born!
Name a vegetarian roast (food) created as a turkey alternative
What is Tofurky?
The amount of turkeys consumed every Thanksgiving
a) 46,000
b) 4.6 million
c) 46 million
d) 460 million
What is 46 million?
The year of the first Thanksgiving
1776
1965
1621
What is 1621?
Name the amount spent on canned cranberry sauce
What is $42 million ?
This Christmas song was originally written for Thanksgiving
What is Jingle Bells?
Number of days the first Thanksgiving lasted
What is 3?