Thanksgiving
Food Categories
Telling Jokes
New Hampshire History
Insects that Plague People
100

This is the food most commonly eaten for Thanksgiving dinner.

What is turkey?

100

Name three foods that are made mainly from cereals or grains.

What are: bread, oatmeal or porridge, cake, pastries, pizza, crackers, cookies, breakfast cereal, rice, pasta cornbread?

100

A person who tells jokes or uses humor for a living.

Who is a comedian?

100

The motto of New Hampshire.

What is "Live Free or Die?"

100

Name one type of blood-sucking insect.

What are: bedbugs, ticks, lice, mosquitoes, flies?

200

This day after Thanksgiving has become famous for early Christmas shopping.

What is Black Friday?

200

Milk, cheese, cream, and yogurt all belong in this food category.

What is dairy?

200

One type of joke relies on two different words that have the same sound. This type of joke is called:

a. a pun

b. word play

c. a bad joke

What is wordplay?

200

This makes up the western border of New Hampshire, which separates it from Vermont.

What is the Connecticut River?

200

According to experts, this is the best way to rid a location of bedbugs.

What is extreme heat?

300

Thanksgiving is always celebrated in the United States on this day.

What is the fourth Thursday in November?

300

Name a type of legume.

What are peas, beans, peanuts or lentils?

300

According to studies with children, children feel less pain while they are watching this.

What is a funny video or TV show?

300

New Hampshire's nickname.

What is "The Granite State?"

300

True or False. Bedbugs carry disease.

What is false?

400

This President declared Thanksgiving would be a national holiday in 1863.

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

400

Plants that are raised for food are known by this term.

What are crops?

400

The words below a cartoon that explain the picture are called this.

What is a caption?

400

Of the original 13 colonies, New Hampshire ratified the U. S. Constitution in this placement:

a. 1st of 13

b. 9th of 13

c.  13th of 13

What is 9th of 13?

400

Name one of two animals being used to detect bedbugs.

What are: dogs or wasps?

500

This group of English immigrants is commonly associated with the American Thanksgiving holiday.

Who are Pilgrims?

500

Name one of the "three sisters" that grew in North America before European immigration.

What are: corn, beans, squash?

500

This is the most important part of a joke. It ties the joke together and provides a conclusion that solves all questions in the minds of the listeners.

What is the punchline?

500

New Hampshire, the only state to have hosted the formal conclusion to a foreign war, hosted the signing of the treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese War. Where did the treaty signing take place?

Where is Portsmouth?

500

The occupation of a person whose job is to rid locations of bugs or other pests.

What is an exterminator?