History
This military veteran was the first U.S. President to proclaim a Day of Thanksgiving.
Who is George Washington?
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is broadcast on this network.
What is NBC?
Sunni Islam is the majority religion in this country bordered by Greece, Bulgaria, the Black Sea, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Aegean Sea.
What is Turkey?
Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in this country.
What is Canada?
In this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention encouraged Americans not to travel for Thanksgiving due to the ongoing public health crisis.
What is 2020?
This last surviving Patuxet Indian taught the Pilgrims how to catch eel and grow corn.
Who is Tisquantum (Squanto)?
This city hosts the oldest Thanksgiving Day parade in the United States.
What is Philadelphia?
This U.S. President started the annual tradition of issuing a "pardon" to a turkey.
Who is George H. W. Bush?
The lyrics of this song come from Lydia Maria Child's Thanksgiving poem "The New-England Boy's Song about Thanksgiving Day", where she celebrates her childhood memories of visiting her grandfather.
What is "Over the River and Through the Wood"?
The town of Brookline in this state recommends that citizens be aggressive toward the turkeys, take a step toward them and not back down.
What is Massachusetts?
This president, prompted by a series of editorials written by Sarah Josepha Hale, proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated on the final Thursday of November, starting the tradition of an annual Thanksgiving observance in the United States.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
In the beginning of the 20th century, Thanksgiving celebrations in this city consisted of Ragamuffin parades where children dressed as "ragamuffins" in costumes of old and mismatched adult clothes and with deliberately smudged faces.
What is New York City?
This sport, popular in minor league ice hockey in the United States and Canada, requires a frozen turkey and ten soft drinks.
What is turkey bowling?
The Turkey Night Grand Prix is an annual race of these small cars. It has been held on Thanksgiving night most years since 1934, where it was founded by Earl Gilmore at his Gilmore Stadium in Los Angeles.
What are midget cars?
Thanksgiving Day was instituted in this country at the suggestion of Ambassador Joaquim Nabuco, who was enthusiastic about the commemorations he saw in 1909 in St. Patrick's Cathedral as an ambassador in Washington.
What is Brazil?
In this decade, the Pilgrims celebrated the "First Thanksgiving"
What is the 1620's (1621)?
Introduced in 1928, balloons replaced these in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
What are live zoo animals?
This event started in 1947 when Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day fell on a "Poultryless Thursday".
What is the National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation?
In 1956, this US state became the last to change its law to observe Thanksgiving on fourth Thursday of November instead of the last Thursday.
What is Texas?
Thanksgiving superseded this day, a de facto national holiday that had been held on November 25 each year prior to the Civil War and commemorated the British withdrawal from the United States after the American Revolution.
What is Evacuation Day?
Thanksgiving was known by this derisive term in 1939 and 1940 after it was moved one week earlier than normal.
What is Franksgiving?
This was one of the first balloons in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
What is the Carnivorous Fish, Tiger, Hummingbird, Sky Elephant, or Early Bird?
In anatomical terms, this is an erectile, fleshy protuberance on the forehead of turkeys.
What is a snood?
The genus Meleagris has two extant species: the wild turkey of eastern and central North America and the ocellated turkey of this region.
What is the Yucatán Peninsula?
After very high winds pushed this balloon into a lamppost, causing falling debris to strike a parade-goer, fracture her skull, and leave her in a coma for a month, balloon size regulations were implemented for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
What is the Cat in the Hat?