Thanksgiving Quiz 1 (Questions only)

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?