Turkeys
This is the sound a male turkey makes.
What is gobble gobble?
This is the name of the ship on which the pilgrims came to America.
What is the Mayflower?
Americans eat approximately 535 million pounds of this on Thanksgiving
What is turkey?
The parade is held every year in this city.
What is New York City?
Originally Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be the national bird not the eagle
True
Female turkeys are called hens. This is what male turkeys are called.
What is Toms?
The pilgrims landed at this rock.
What is Plymouth Rock?
What are the two most popular side dishes at Thanksgiving?
What is stuffing and mash potatoes?
A float featuring this man ends the parade every year.
Wild Turkeys can run up to 20 miles per hour.
True (when they're scared) domesticated turkeys are too fat and don't run that fast.
People from this Western State are the largest consumers of turkey in the United States.
What is California?
This tribe of Native Americans were invited to the first Thanksgiving feast.
What are the Wampanoag?
This cheesy side dish is a staple in a southern thanksgiving.
What is macaroni and cheese?
On average how much does a new balloon cost to make for the parade? (use $10,000 increments)
What is $190,000 for a first-time balloon (after a first appearance, it costs $90,000 a year after that).
Originally the Macy's day parade only had zoo animals.
True
This is the name of the skin that hangs from a turkey's neck.
What is the wattle?
The first Thanksgiving lasted this many days.
What is 3 days?
Approximately 94% of American Thanksgiving meals include this tangy item.
What is cranberry sauce?
If you tune into this year's parade, you will see balloon characters from this book series, one of the most popular in our library.
What is Diary of a Wimpy Kid?
True (In 1953, Swanson had so much extra turkey (260 tons) that a salesman told them they should package it onto aluminum trays with other sides like sweet potatoes)
This Midwest State produces the most turkeys each year.
What is Minnesota?
The Pilgrims ship held approximately this many people.
What is 100?
Approximately this percentage of American Thanksgiving meals include turkey (percentage should be in 10s).
What is 90%?
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade began in this decade.
What is the 1920s? (1924 to be exact).
False (the parade stopped from 1942-1944 during WWII because of rubber and helium going to the war)