What part of the turkey is saved as a good luck item?
What is the Wishbone
100
What other country celebrates Thanksgiving?
What is Canada
100
What is the Big Parade called that is held on Thanksgiving each day?
What is Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
100
How long was the original Thanksgiving?
What is 3 days
200
What was the ship called that the Pilgrims first came over on?
What is the Mayflower
200
What food was served at the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims?
What is Deer, Codfish and Boiled Pumpkin
200
What is significant about the day after Thanksgiving?
What is Black Friday--the busiest travel and shopping day of the year, with the best store sales!
200
What year was the first Macy's Thanksgiving Parade?
What is 1924
200
The first Thanksgiving football game was started by which team?
What is the Detroit Lions in 1934.
300
What Indian Tribe was invited to spend Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims?
What is the Wampanoag Indians
300
What vegetable did the Pilgrims have available for the first Thanksgiving, but did not serve because they thought it was poisonous?
What is Potatoes.
300
What is a common athletic Thanksgiving Day tradition for many Americans?
What is running road races such as the "Turkey Trot" or the "Feaster Five". Running a 3 mile race gives you lots of room for tons of food in your belly that day!
300
Which balloon was the first balloon in the 1927 Macy's Thanksgiving parade?
What is Felix the Cat
300
Which president made Thanksgiving a National Holiday in 1863?
Who is President Abraham Lincoln
400
What was the original name for the Pilgrims?
What is the Puritans
400
The word turkey is said to come from the Hebrew word "tukki" which means what?
What is Big Bird or Pheasant Bird
400
The town of Plymouth, MA celebrates what on December 11th each year?
What is Forefathers Day, in honor of the people who founded Plymouth Colony.
400
Why did parades become an important Thanksgiving tradition?
Originally it was for publicity to kick off the holiday shopping season!
400
Not everyone on the Mayflower was traveling to the New World to settle. What was the purpose of the voyage for others?
What is to gather fur and lumber to send back to England. They were sponsored by English Businessmen.
500
Of the original 102 Pilgrims that came to Plymouth, how many survived to have the first Thanksgiving meal?
What is 50 pilgrims, and only 5 women.
500
The Term "Cornucopia" means what?
What is Horn of Plenty
500
What day of the year is Thanksgiving held?
What is the 4th Thursday in November.
500
What parade is said to be the origin of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
What is the Ragamuffin Parade in NYC.
500
Why is Thanksgiving always observed on a Thursday?
What is Thursday was the Pilgrim's mid-week prayer day. They also went to church on Sundays and wanted their mid-prayer day to be Thanksgiving.