Tri Sigma
What month in 1898 was Tri Sigma founded?
a) June
b) April
c) November
What is April?
What year was the celebration that is most commonly considered to be the first Thanksgiving?
a) 1790
b) 1621
c) 1857
What is 1621?
In what decade did Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade start?
a) 1930s
b) 1970s
c) 1920s
a) 1930s
b) 1970s
c) 1920s
What is the 1920s?
What are baby turkeys called?
a) colt
b) gosling
c) poult
What are poults?
What meat did the native Americans bring to the first Thanksgiving?
a) chickens
b) deer
c) cows
What are deer?
What town in Virginia was Tri Sigma founded in?
a) Farmville
b) Norfolk
c) Williamsburg
What is Farmville?
How long did the first Thanksgiving celebration last?
a) 1 day
b) 5 hours
c) 3 days
What is 3 days?
How does the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade conclude?
a) With a dance of a Broadway play cast
b) With the arrival of the NYC Mayor
c) With the arrival of Santa
What is the arrival of Santa?
What is the wobbly red piece of flesh on the turkey's neck called?
a) wattle
b) spur
c) snood
What is a wattle?
What food was present at the first Thanksgiving but is rarely eaten at Thanksgiving now?
a) Seafood
b) Chicken
c) Ham
What is seafood?
What university was Tri Sigma founded in?
a) University of Virginia
b) Longwood University
c) George Mason University
What is Longwood University?
Under which president did Thanksgiving become an annual holiday?
a) George Washington
b) Abraham Lincoln
c) Woodrow Wilson
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What is the oldest Thanksgiving parade currently called?
a) 6abc Dunkin' Donuts Thanksgiving Day Parade
b) America's Thanksgiving Parade
c) H-E-B Thanksgiving Day Parade
What is the 6abc Dunkin' Donuts Thanksgiving Day Parade?
What are most turkey feathers used for after the turkey is plucked?
a) to make blankets
b) animal feed
c) nothing
What is animal feed?
What decade was green bean casserole, a Thanksgiving staple in many households, first created?
a) 1930s
b) 1970s
c) 1950s
What is the 1950s?
Which person was NOT a founder of Tri Sigma?
a) Margaret Lee Batten
b) Louise Marie Davis
c) Cyndi White
Who is Cyndi White?
When the religious group that would later be known as the Pilgrims left England to practice their religion freely, where did they go?
a) France
b) Holland
c) Ireland
What is Holland?
What year were the character balloons displayed?
a) 1942
b) 1927
c) 1939
When is 1927?
What state raises the most turkeys?
a) Minnesota
b) Illinois
c) Idaho
What is Minnesota?
In what century were the first pumpkin pies as we know them made?
a) 1800s
b) 1600s
c) 1700s
What is the 1600s?
What was J Miller Leake known for?
a) The only man permitted to wear the Tri Sigma badge
b) Writing Tri Sigma's "Stately and Royal"
c) Helping create Tri Sigmas philanthropy
Who was the only man permitted to wear the Tri Sigma badge?
James Miller Leake, a member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity, was the only man permitted to wear the badge of the sorority and is counted as a member of Tri Sigma due to his help with drafting the constitution and writing the initiation ritual
Before carrying the pilgrims over to America, the Mayflower was:
A) A cruise liner
B) A passenger ferry
C) A wine vessel
What is a wine vessel?
Why was the Macy's parade cancelled from the years 1942-1944?
a) Rubber and helium shortages due to WWII
b) The weather was too cold for the floats to inflate
c) Not enough attendance due to WWII
What is rubber and helium shortages due to WWII?
How long is the average life span of a wild turkey?
a) 1/2 years
b) 3/4 years
c) 5/7 years
What is 3/4 years?
What culture produced the idea of the cornucopia, the horn of plenty?
a) French
b) English
c) Greek
What is the Greek culture?