Thanksgiving in Pop Culture
These two NFL teams have played on every Thanksgiving since 1978
The Dallas Cowboys and the Detroit Lions
This ceremony, started informally with President Harry S Truman, and officially became a tradition with President George H.W. Bush in 1989
Pardoning a turkey
This is the most popular Thanksgiving side dish
Mashed Potatoes
This location is where the Pilgrims first landed in America
Plymouth, Massachusetts (Plymouth Rock)
You can celebrate turkeys all year round with this sport
Bowling
Vince Guaraldi orchestrated and even lent his vocals in rare fashion to the music for this Thanksgiving-themed film
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
This fairly new tradition, formalized in 2012, happens the Tuesday after Thanksgiving
Giving Tuesday
This type of apple is traditionally used in apple pies
Granny Smith Apples
This Native American helped the Pilgrims survive their first winter
Squanto
Since 1981, this company has offered support for those of us who struggle with cooking turkeys with their "Turkey Talk-Line"
Butterball
This classic comedy movie's tagline is "What he really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he really got was three days with the turkey."
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
The Etruscan people, over 2,400 years ago in Italy, started a tradition that still happens to this day
Breaking the wishbone
A Campbell Soup company employee, Dorcas Reilly, created the popular green bean casserole dish in this year
(+/- 3 years)
1955
This president was the first to declare Thanksgiving a national holiday
Abraham Lincoln
This U.S. president moved the date of Thanksgiving to the fourth Thursday of November to increase holiday shopping
Franklin D. Roosevelt
This sitcom is famous for having a Thanksgiving-themed episode in each season
Friends
The oldest documented turkey trot (130 years this year!) still takes place every year in this city
Buffalo, New York
The turducken, popularized by John Madden, consists of a chicken stuffed into a duck, which is then stuffed into a turkey. This U.S. state claims to be the originators of this fowl beast
Louisiana
There are claims that this popular Christmas song was originally a Thanksgiving song
This U.S. state harvests the most cranberries
Wisconsin
This Broadway Musical features a song called "Turkey Lurkey Time"
Promises, Promises
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade started in this year
1924
This is the number of turkeys that are approximately consumed by Americans on Thanksgiving
(closest answer)
46 Million
This 19th century American writer, known for her popular nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb", was nicknamed "The Mother of Thanksgiving" as she was the one who orchestrated Thanksgiving to become a National Holiday
Sarah Josepha Hale
The heaviest turkey ever recorded weighed in at this amount
(+/- 3lbs.)
86 pounds