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Thanksgiving Trivia questions, page 1

1. Who traditionally arrives at the very end of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?

   1. The mayor
   2. Santa Claus
   3. Mother Goose
   4. Uncle Sam

2. In the US, Thanksgiving is held on which Thursday of November?

   1. The fourth
   2. The third
   3. The first
   4. The second

3. Why was the Macy's parade called off from 1942 through 1944?

   1. Record snowstorms
   2. Rubber and helium went to the war
   3. A city budget crisis
   4. A flu outbreak

4. Which English explorer held a thanksgiving in Canada's Arctic in 1578?

   1. John Cabot
   2. Francis Drake
   3. Martin Frobisher
   4. Henry Hudson

5. Which Patuxet man, who spoke English, helped the Pilgrims learn to plant corn?

   1. Massasoit
   2. Pocahontas
   3. Metacom
   4. Squanto

6. What is a male turkey usually called?

   1. A buck
   2. A drake
   3. A rooster
   4. A tom

7. Which Plymouth governor wrote a firsthand history of the colony?

   1. John Winthrop
   2. Myles Standish
   3. John Carver
   4. William Bradford

8. Who wrote the 1844 poem now known as Over the River and Through the Wood?

   1. Julia Ward Howe
   2. Lydia Maria Child
   3. Emily Dickinson
   4. Sarah Josepha Hale

9. Which Native nation shared the 1621 harvest feast with the Plymouth colonists?

   1. Iroquois
   2. Cherokee
   3. Wampanoag
   4. Lenape

10. Which magazine editor campaigned for years for a national Thanksgiving Day?

    1. Clara Barton
    2. Harriet Beecher Stowe
    3. Louisa May Alcott
    4. Sarah Josepha Hale

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Thanksgiving Trivia questions, page 2

11. At holiday dinners, two people snap which turkey bone, hoping for the bigger piece?

    1. The breastbone
    2. The neck bone
    3. The drumstick
    4. The wishbone

12. Who issued the first Thanksgiving proclamation as US president, in 1789?

    1. George Washington
    2. James Madison
    3. Thomas Jefferson
    4. John Adams

13. Which president moved Thanksgiving a week earlier in 1939, to the dismay of many?

    1. Harry Truman
    2. Franklin D. Roosevelt
    3. Herbert Hoover
    4. Calvin Coolidge

14. In A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1973), what do Snoopy and friends serve?

    1. Pancakes and syrup
    2. Hot dogs and potato chips
    3. Pizza and ice cream
    4. Toast, pretzels, popcorn, jelly beans

15. Cranberry growers often harvest by doing what to the bogs?

    1. Draining them dry
    2. Covering them in sand
    3. Burning the vines
    4. Flooding them with water

16. According to a colonist's letter, what did the Wampanoag bring to the 1621 feast?

    1. Baskets of fish
    2. Wild turkeys
    3. Barrels of corn
    4. Five deer

17. Which folk singer's long story-song is a Thanksgiving radio tradition?

    1. Phil Ochs
    2. Bob Dylan
    3. Arlo Guthrie
    4. Pete Seeger

18. What agreement did the Pilgrim men sign aboard ship before landing in 1620?

    1. The Pilgrim Covenant
    2. The Plymouth Charter
    3. The Mayflower Compact
    4. The Bay Colony Accord

19. The cornucopia, a symbol of the harvest, is also called the horn of what?

    1. Plenty
    2. Harvest
    3. Autumn
    4. Thanks

20. What ship carried the Pilgrims to America in 1620?

    1. Mayflower
    2. Susan Constant
    3. Santa Maria
    4. Speedwell

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Answers

1. B. Santa Claus
2. A. The fourth
3. B. Rubber and helium went to the war
4. C. Martin Frobisher
5. D. Squanto
6. D. A tom
7. D. William Bradford
8. B. Lydia Maria Child
9. C. Wampanoag
10. D. Sarah Josepha Hale
11. D. The wishbone
12. A. George Washington
13. B. Franklin D. Roosevelt
14. D. Toast, pretzels, popcorn, jelly beans
15. D. Flooding them with water
16. D. Five deer
17. C. Arlo Guthrie
18. C. The Mayflower Compact
19. A. Plenty
20. A. Mayflower

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