Thanksgiving Trivia Quiz

Trivia questions and answers about Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving Day is an annual national holiday in the USA celebrating the harvest and other blessings of the past year. It is thought that Thanksgiving is modeled on the harvest feast shared by the Pilgrims (English colonists) of Plymouth and the Wampanoag people in 1621.

Thanksgiving Trivia - Questions

1. In which year did the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians share an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies: 1621, 1651, 1681, or 1711?
2. In 1863, which president proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day to be held each November?
3. Which is the most popular traditional pie to serve after Thanksgiving dinner?
4. Which popular Christmas song was written by James Pierpont in the autumn of 1857 as a Thanksgiving song?
5. What are newly hatched turkeys called?
6. In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved the holiday up a week in an attempt to encourage retail sales because of what?
7. In 1827, the noted magazine editor Sarah Josepha Hale launched a campaign to establish Thanksgiving as a national holiday - she is also known for publishing which famous nursery rhyme?
8. Which annual Thanksgiving Day Parade is the world's largest parade?
9. Is Thanksgiving celebrated on the first, second, third or fourth Thursday in November?
10. What is the informal name for the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States?
11. What receives a Presidential pardon each year?
12. Which English ship transported the first English Puritans, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World?
13. True or false. Native Americans had a rich tradition of commemorating the fall harvest long before Europeans set foot on their shores?
14. Which sauce or relish is commonly served as a condiment with Thanksgiving dinner?
15. In an episode of television's Friends, Rachel reveals Monica's worst Thanksgiving was accidentally cutting off a part of Chandler's body - which part?
16. What name is given to the wobbly red piece of flesh on top of the beak of a turkey?
17. Introduced in 1927, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade's first ever giant balloon was of which animal cartoon character?

Thanksgiving Trivia - Questions and Answers

1. In which year did the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians share an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies: 1621, 1651, 1681, or 1711?
   Answer - 1621
2. In 1863, which president proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day to be held each November?
   Answer - President Abraham Lincoln
3. Which is the most popular traditional pie to serve after Thanksgiving dinner?
   Answer - Pumpkin pie
4. Which popular Christmas song was written by James Pierpont in the autumn of 1857 as a Thanksgiving song?
   Answer - Jingle Bells
5. What are newly hatched turkeys called?
   Answer - Poults
6. In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved the holiday up a week in an attempt to encourage retail sales because of what?
   Answer - The Great Depression
7. In 1827, the noted magazine editor Sarah Josepha Hale launched a campaign to establish Thanksgiving as a national holiday - she is also known for publishing which famous nursery rhyme?
   Answer - Mary Had a Little Lamb
8. Which annual Thanksgiving Day Parade is the world's largest parade?
   Answer - Macy's Parade
9. Is Thanksgiving celebrated on the first, second, third or fourth Thursday in November?
   Answer - Fourth Thursday
10. What is the informal name for the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States?
    Answer - Black Friday
11. What receives a Presidential pardon each year?
    Answer - A turkey
12. Which English ship transported the first English Puritans, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World?
    Answer - Mayflower (it set sail from Plymouth, England in 1620)
13. True or false. Native Americans had a rich tradition of commemorating the fall harvest long before Europeans set foot on their shores?
    Answer - True
14. Which sauce or relish is commonly served as a condiment with Thanksgiving dinner?
    Answer - Cranberry sauce
15. In an episode of television's Friends, Rachel reveals Monica's worst Thanksgiving was accidentally cutting off a part of Chandler's body - which part?
    Answer - His toe
16. What name is given to the wobbly red piece of flesh on top of the beak of a turkey?
    Answer - Snood
17. Introduced in 1927, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade's first ever giant balloon was of which animal cartoon character?
    Answer - Felix the Cat