Fun facts about Thanksgiving

Black Friday is the busiest day for 

• retailers
• plumbers
• emergency rooms
• couch potatos

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What famous food item is famous because of the Thanksgiving of 1953 and 26 tons of extra turkey?

• tater tots
• cranberry sauce
• frozen dinners
• turkey salad

Which state does NOT have a city named Turkey?

• Idaho
• Texas
• Louisiana
• North Carolina

When Abe Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday, it was thanks to the tireless efforts of a magazine editor named Sarah Josepha Hale. Her other claim to fame? She also wrote the nursery rhyme

• Jimmy Cracked Corn
• Humpty Dumpty
• Jack Jumped Over the Candlestick
• Mary Had a Little Lamb

Only male turkeys, called toms, gobble. Females, called hens,

• scream
• yell
• cackle
• holler

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Ben Franklin wanted the turkey to be our national bird. An eagle, he wrote in a letter to his daughter, had ___________.  A turkey, on the other hand, was a "much more respectable bird."

• too much wing span
• a white head, so he looked too old
• ugly talons
• bad moral character

Thanksgiving is not just an American holiday. Canadians celebrate it too. Except they do it the second Monday in _________.

• September
• December
• August
• October

Break out the menurkeys: The first day of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving happened on the same day in ______ for the first time since 1888. Scientists say the confluence won't occur again for another 70,000 years, give or take a millennium.

• 2000
• 2013
• 1999
• 1986

A turkey less than 12-weeks-old is called a ___________.

• poultry
• fry
• chick
• fryer-roaster

Why is it called a turkey?  Back in the day, the Europeans took a liking to the guinea fowls imported to the continent. Since the birds were imported by ________ merchants, the English called them turkeys. Later, when the Spaniards came to America, they found a bird that tasted like those guinea fowls. When they were sent to Europe, the English called these birds "turkeys" as well.

• Spanish
• European
• Indian
• Turkish