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November · 15–20 minutes
🦃 Thanksgiving Quiz Night
The 1621 harvest gathering, holiday traditions, food, and parade history.
15 questions · Family-friendly · answers and sources checked
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1. Which shopping holiday, falling on the Monday after Thanksgiving, encourages online shopping deals?
Cyber Monday
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2. On which day is Thanksgiving observed in the United States?
The fourth Thursday in November
3. Which president proclaimed the last Thursday of November 1863 a national day of Thanksgiving?
Abraham Lincoln
4. Which magazine editor campaigned for a nationwide Thanksgiving observance and wrote to the president about it in 1863?
Sarah Josepha Hale
5. The 1621 harvest gathering remembered as the 'First Thanksgiving' took place in what is now which state?
Massachusetts
6. Which Indigenous people joined the English colonists at the 1621 harvest gathering?
Wampanoag
8. Which animals did Ousamequin and his men contribute to the 1621 feast?
Five deer
9. Which tart red fruit native to North America commonly appears as a sauce at Thanksgiving?
Cranberries
12. Which character became the first character balloon in Macy's parade in 1927?
Felix the Cat
13. Why was the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade canceled from 1942 through 1944?
World War II
14. On which day is Thanksgiving observed in Canada?
The second Monday in October
15. Who wrote the surviving eyewitness account of the 1621 harvest celebration?
Edward Winslow