Thanksgiving Quiz 1
1. On which day is Thanksgiving celebrated in the United States?
2. On which day is Thanksgiving celebrated in Canada?
3. What was the name of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to America in 1620?
4. Which Native American people shared the famous harvest feast with the Pilgrims at Plymouth in 1621?
5. Who was the leader of those people at the time?
6. Which Native American man, who had lived in England and spoke English, helped the Pilgrims to survive?
7. Which governor of Plymouth Colony wrote the history "Of Plymouth Plantation"?
8. Which magazine editor campaigned for decades for a national Thanksgiving holiday, and also wrote "Mary Had a Little Lamb"?
9. Which president proclaimed a national day of Thanksgiving in 1863, during the Civil War?
10. In 1939, Franklin D. Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving a week earlier to give a longer shopping season. What nickname did critics give it?
11. Which New York department store has held a Thanksgiving Day parade since 1924?
12. Which president made the White House turkey pardon an official annual ceremony in 1989?
13. Which two NFL teams traditionally host games on Thanksgiving Day?
14. What name is given to the big shopping day after Thanksgiving?
15. Which red berry, grown in flooded bogs, is a traditional Thanksgiving sauce?
16. Which Founding Father wrote in a letter to his daughter that the turkey was a "much more respectable bird" than the bald eagle?
17. What is the scientific name for the wishbone?
18. Which English explorer is sometimes credited with holding the first Thanksgiving in North America, in the Arctic in 1578?
19. Which West African country, founded by freed American slaves, also celebrates a national Thanksgiving Day?
20. The song "Over the River and Through the Wood" is now sung at Christmas, but which holiday was the original poem about?
ANSWERS
1. The fourth Thursday in November
2. The second Monday in October
3. The Mayflower
4. The Wampanoag
5. Massasoit
6. Squanto (Tisquantum)
Squanto had been kidnapped by an English explorer, sold into slavery in Spain, and later lived in London before returning home.
7. William Bradford
8. Sarah Josepha Hale
9. Abraham Lincoln
10. Franksgiving
Some states followed Roosevelt and some did not, so for two years the country had two Thanksgivings. In 1941, Congress fixed the date as the fourth Thursday.
11. Macy's
12. George H. W. Bush
13. The Detroit Lions and the Dallas Cowboys
14. Black Friday
15. The cranberry
16. Benjamin Franklin
Franklin made the comment in a 1784 letter mocking the design of the eagle on a badge. He never formally proposed the turkey as the national bird.
17. The furcula
18. Martin Frobisher
Canada's Thanksgiving is more directly descended from European harvest festivals and from celebrations in the 18th and 19th centuries.
19. Liberia
20. Thanksgiving
Lydia Maria Child wrote the poem in 1844 about visiting her grandparents' house for Thanksgiving.
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