Presidents
The first President to receive a ceremonial Thanksgiving Turkey.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
This was the first President to pardon a turkey.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This is the average amount of calories consumed by Americans, per person, at Thanksgiving dinner.
What is 4,500 calories?
Americans prefer this kind of pie.
What is apple pie?
This is how long the first Thanksgiving celebration lasted.
What is three days?
This President first ordered a national day of Thanksgiving.
Who is George Washington?
This President made turkey pardoning an annual event.
Who is George H.W. Bush?
This is what the world's most expensive Thanksgiving dinner on record.
What is $150,000?
This is how many turkeys are prepared for Thanksgiving in America each year.
What are 46 million?
This decade includes the year of the first Thanksgiving football game.
What are the 1870s?
This President refused to celebrate Thanksgiving as a national holiday.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This President tried to make Thanksgiving the third Thursday in November to help boost the economy for the holiday season.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
This is the decade when green bean casserole was introduced to Thanksgiving dinner.
What is the 1950s (1955)?
This percentage of Americans skip turkey on Thanksgiving.
What is 12%?
This is the decade that the first Thanksgiving NFL football game occurred.
What are the 1920s?
This President declared two Thanksgivings in a year.
Who is James Madison?
Sarah Josepha Hale persuaded this President to proclaim a national day of Thanksgiving during the midst of the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What is 50 million?
What is 80%?
This is the number of women that were present at the very first Thanksgiving celebration.
What are five?
This President received a live raccoon as a Thanksgiving present.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
This President officially made Thanksgiving the fourth Thursday of every November.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
These are some of the meats that were consumed at the first Thanksgiving celebration.
What are venison, swan, duck, and goose (not turkey)?
This is the type of seafood that was served at the first Thanksgiving feast.
What are lobster, oysters, fish, and possibly eel?
This Native American tribe celebrated the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims.
What is the Wamponoag?