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Thanksgiving Trivia Quiz

Q: What Na ve American tribe helped the Pilgrims survive the fi rst harsh winter by teaching them to fi sh and cul vate crops?

A: The Wampanoag tribe (pronounced WOMP-ah-nog) helped the Pilgrims by teaching them to fi sh and cul vate indigenous crops. Today, the tribe’s descendants live on their reserva on on Martha’s Vineyard.

Q: When and where did the fi rst Thanksgiving take place?

A: Most historians believe it was in 1621 in Plymouth Colony in an area that later became Massachuse s.

Q: Which of the following ships carried the Pilgrims to America: the Nina, the Pinta, “Old Iron Sides,” the Mayfl ower, or the Santa Maria?

A: The Mayfl ower brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth Rock a er a 66-day voyage over the Atlan c.

Q: What is the offi cial day for Thanksgiving in the U.S.?

A: The fourth Thursday in November.

Q: Which president declared the fi nal Thursday in November as a na onal day of Thanksgiving?

A: Although other presidents (including George Washington and John Adams) had called for a na onal day of thanksgiving when circumstances called for it, it was Abraham Lincoln who made it an annual na onal observance. In 1939 Franklin Roosevelt changed it to the fourth Thursday in November, and Congress made it an offi cial na onal holiday in 1941.

Q: What year was the fi rst Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade?

A: 1924. Today the parade travels 2.5 miles down the streets of Manha an to the delight of the 3.5 million people lining the streets. Another 50 million households across the U.S. watch the parade on TV.

Q: Which of the following was NOT included on the menu at the fi rst Thanksgiving: venison, wild fowl, lobster, nuts, pumpkin pie, seal, le uce, grapes, swan, or seafood?

A: Pumpkin pie. The Pilgrims lacked two necessary items needed to make pie: sugar (they didn’t have any le a er the voyage), and ovens to bake them in. There are records of Pilgrims stewing pumpkins, but not baking pies.

Q: Which ea ng utensil was NOT used by the Pilgrims: knives, forks, spoons, or their fi ngers?

A: Forks. Pilgrims did not have forks but ea ng with their fi ngers was quite acceptable.

Q: True or false: the Pilgrims wore mainly black and white clothes and dressed very somberly?

A: False. While black and white were worn on Sundays, at other mes the Pilgrims’ clothes included a lot of color. Women wore red, green, brown, blue, violet, and gray, and men wore green, brown, and beige.

Q: Which of America’s Founding Fathers argued that the wild turkey — rather than the bald eagle — should be the na onal bird of the United States?

A: Benjamin Franklin. He felt the turkey was “a much more respectable bird...a true original na ve of America...and though a li le vain and silly, a bird of courage.”

Q: How much did the world’s biggest pumpkin pie weigh?

A: According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the largest pumpkin pie weighed 3,699 pounds and measured 20 feet across by 3 inches deep. Baked on September 25, 2010 by the New Bremen Giant Pumpkin Growers at the New Bremen Pumpkinfest in Ohio, ingredients included 187 cans of pumpkin, 2,796 eggs, 109 gallons of evaporated milk, 525 pounds of sugar, 7 pounds of salt, 14.5 pounds of cinnamon, 3 pounds of pumpkin pie spice, and 440 sheets of dough.

Q: True or false: turkeys are slow moving birds and cannot fl y?

A: This may be true for domes cated turkeys that are bought for Thanksgiving dinner, but their wild counterparts can run at speeds up to 25 miles per hour and fl y for short distances at nearly 55 miles per hour.

Q: True or false: ea ng turkey can make you sleepy?

A: It’s possible. Turkey contains tryptophan, a natural seda ve. But since a lot of other foods contain tryptophan as well, if you feel sleepy a er a big Thanksgiving dinner the real cause might be the combina on of fats and carbohydrates in all those yummy side dishes along with the amounts of food (and some mes alcohol) you may have consumed.

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