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Happy Thanksgiving! It’s everyone’s favorite problematic holiday. Large communal dinners with our loved ones (with or without tense political conversations), a feast of delicious food, and day drinking galore! Yes, it comes with an intensely awful history of corrupt colonizers infecting Native AmeriShow More
Happy Thanksgiving! It’s everyone’s favorite problematic holiday. Large communal dinners with our loved ones (with or without tense political conversations), a feast of delicious food, and day drinking galore! Yes, it comes with an intensely awful history of corrupt colonizers infecting Native Americans with foreign diseases and taking advantage of their hospitality for their own political gain, but that’s America for you! And now we have Thanksgiving.
So what do you know about it, really? The icky history, the dishes served through time, the weird political implications of it all. So, let’s talk turkey, do you really know your stuff(ing)? That’s it when it comes to puns for us, so you’re free from here on out! Don’t consult your history textbook to study up for this because it probably lied to you in the first place. Maybe consult Twitter? They’ll give you something closer to the truth. Or at least try to.

Contrary to your current Thanksgiving table, which popular dish was actually NOT present at the first Thanksgiving dinner?
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GettyPumpkin
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GettyCranberry
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GettyCorn
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GettyTurkey

The actual date of Thanksgiving Day has changed through time, but which former U.S. president made it a national holiday?
- James Madison
- Woodrow Wilson
- Abraham Lincoln
- Ulysses S. Grant

What is the name of the tribe of First Nations people who first interacted with the settlers credited with having the first Thanksgiving dinner?
- Lenape
- Wampanoag
- Algonquian
- Quinnipiac

The first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade didn't feature balloon floats, it actually featured... what?
- Animals from the Central Park Zoo
- Macy’s retail workers
- Olympic athletes
- Powhatan

What town in Massachusetts hosted the first Thanksgiving dinner?
- Concord
- Plymouth
- Medford
- Ipswitch

Which popular Christmas carol was actually originally written with Thanksgiving in mind?
- “Sleigh Bells”
- “Let It Snow
- “Jingle Bells”
- “Winter Wonderland”

The day after Thanksgiving - Black Friday - is actually the busiest day for people in what line of work?
- Mechanics
- Electricians
- Dry cleaners
- Plumbers

The Wednesday before Thanksgiving is more widely known as what?
- Drinksgiving
- Wet Wednesday
- Pre-Turkey Tipsy
- Turkey Trot

The Canadians do Thanksgiving along with Americans, but they celebrate in October not November. What day in October does Canadian Thanksgiving take place?
- Sunday
- Monday
- Tuesday
- Wednesday

Which U.S. state consumes the most amount of turkey on Thanksgiving?
- Texas
- Florida
- California
- New York

Which culinary utensil did not RSVP to the first Thanksgiving dinner? The pilgrims didn't eat with... what?
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GettyKnives
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GettyForks
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GettySpoons
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GettyTheir hands

Which one of the presidents on Mt. Rushmore thought of Thanksgiving as completely ridiculous and did not acknowledge it as something that should be federally celebrated?
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Abraham Lincoln
- Thomas Jefferson
- George Washington

What year did the first Thanksgiving dinner take place?
- 1585
- 1492
- 1722
- 1621

Sarah Hale petitioned different presidents over 17 years to make Thanksgiving a national holiday and then finally succeeded! But, you may know her as the woman who wrote what popular nursery rhyme?
- “Little Bo Peep”
- “Mary Had A Little Lamb”
- “Little Jack Horner”
- “The Itsy Bitsy Spider”

Cranberries - before they were used in sauces - were used by Native Americans to do what?
- Dye clothes
- Make tea
- Treat wounds
- All of the above

Most Americans eat as much food on Thanksgiving Day for them to gain how much weight?
- 0.8 pounds
- 1.3 pounds
- 2.4 pounds
- 3.7 pounds

Pilgrims describes the first settlers, but they weren't actually Puritans. What were they?
- Brownist Separatists
- Catholics
- Mormons
- Protestant

The Gimbels Thanksgiving Day Parade predates the Macy's parade by several years. What city does it happen in?
- Chicago
- Sacramento
- Philadelphia
- Boston

Speaking of the Macy's parade - the first balloon to participate in the parade was what?
- Snoopy
- Ronald McDonald
- The Pilsbury dough boy
- Felix the cat

What did the pilgrims actually NOT wear despite what is culturally depicted?
- Leather
- Buckled hats
- White collars
- Lace
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