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WorksheetsAlli's Thanksgiving Trivia
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 18mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Thanksgiving is only celebrated in the US.
a)
true
b)
false
2.
Who is the Greek goddess of corn?
a)
Demeter
b)
Cornucopia
c)
Grainophillia
d)
Ceres
3.
What was the name of the first department store to hold a Thanksgiving parade?
a)
Gimbel's
b)
Macy's
c)
J. C. Penney
d)
none of these
4.
What was the name of the rock that was located where the pilgrims first landed?
a)
Columbus
b)
Adaleina
c)
Plymoth
d)
It doesn't have a name
5.
The Indians who were invited to the Thanksgiving feast were of the Wampanoag tribe. Who was their chief?
a)
Pemaquin
b)
Massasoit
c)
Samoset
d)
Squanto
6.
What was the name of the ship the pilgrims came over on?
a)
Mayflower
b)
Santa Maria
c)
Pinta
d)
Nina
7.
Who was the captain of the Mayflower?
a)
Squanto
b)
Christopher Columbus
c)
Christopher Jones
d)
Massasoit
8.
Thanksgiving became a national holiday thanks to this woman who was an editor of a woman's magazine called "The Godey's Lady's Book":
a)
Betsy Ross
b)
Sarah Hale
c)
Rachel Parker
d)
Elizabeth Landford
9.
Which President was the first to establish Thanksgiving as a legal national holiday to be held the 4th Thursday in November?
a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
Thomas Jefferson
c)
Franklin Roosevelt
d)
James Madison
10.
In Canada, they celebrate Thanksgiving in what month?
a)
November
b)
October
c)
September
d)
May
11.
The term "Cornucopia" means what?
a)
Tall corn
b)
A traditional New English relish
c)
A horn of plenty
d)
The greek god of corn
12.
What was the original name for the pilgrims?
a)
Puritans or Separatists
b)
Partisans or Dividians
c)
Settlers or Colonists
d)
Journeymen of seekers
13.
Which President moved Thanksgiving up one week to help stimulate the Christmas shopping economy?
a)
Franklin Roosevelt
b)
Theodore Roosevelt
c)
John Kennedy
d)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
14.
What is the name of the book that Governor William Bradford wrote telling of the troubles and experiences of the pilgrims?
a)
Plymouth's Story
b)
Of Plymouth Plantation
c)
Of Plymouth Rock
d)
Trials and Tribulations of Plymouth Times
15.
Captain John Smith founded What colony?
a)
Jamestown
b)
Roanoke
c)
South Carolina
d)
Europe
16.
What poet wrote "The Courtship of Miles Standish?"
a)
Longfellow
b)
Yeats
c)
Keats
d)
Shelley
17.
The pilgrims took beer on their voyage with them.
a)
true
b)
false
18.
The real Plymouth Rock is cracked from the Revolutionary war.
a)
true
b)
false
19.
What year did the first Macy's Thanksgiving parade take place?
a)
1892
b)
1719
c)
1974
d)
1924
20.
Thanksgiving is a religious holiday.
a)
true
b)
false
21.
Why is the male turkey often referred to as "Tom Turkey?"
a)
Because it's more politically correct than using
the word cock for male. (Hen is a female turkey btw)
the word cock for male. (Hen is a female turkey btw)
b)
After Thomas Jefferson
c)
Because Indians would catch them by
pounding on tom-tom drums and lure them into traps.
pounding on tom-tom drums and lure them into traps.
d)
From an 18th century political cartoon
22.
What balloon was the first balloon in the Macy's parade?
a)
Tom the turkey
b)
Felix the cat
c)
Oswald
d)
Dorothy from the Wizard of oz
23.
How many days did the first Thanksgiving feast last?
a)
1 day
b)
3 days
c)
7 days
d)
12 days
24.
By the 19th century, celebrating Thanksgiving is said to have been the origin of what following table tradition?
a)
having a kiddie table
b)
having turkeys on a table cloth
c)
having indian corn as a centerpiece
d)
there is no tradition
25.
Before being harvested and sold, an individual cranberry must bounce at least how many inches high to make sure they aren't too ripe?
a)
1 inch
b)
2 inches
c)
3 inches
d)
4 inches
26.
The busiest day of the year is:
a)
the day after Christmas
b)
the day after New Year
c)
the day after Thanksgiving
d)
the day after Black Friday
27.
The first meal eaten on the moon by astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldren was a roasted turkey dinner with all the trimmings.
a)
true
b)
false
28.
Turkeys can drown if they look up in the rain.
a)
true
b)
false
29.
The following towns with "turkey" in their names, are really towns in the United States.
Turkey, Texas
Turkey Creek, Louisianna
Turkey, North Carolina
Turkey Feather, New Mexico
Turkey, Texas
Turkey Creek, Louisianna
Turkey, North Carolina
Turkey Feather, New Mexico
a)
true
b)
false
30.
Historians have proven that the pilgrims didn't really wear those funny hats and buckles on their shoes.
a)
true
b)
false
31.
The longest balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is:
a)
spiderman
b)
superman
c)
a teenege mutant ninja turtle
d)
wonderwoman
32.
Which of the following utensils did the pilgrims NOT have?
a)
fork
b)
spoon
c)
knife
d)
they had all of these utensils
33.
How many pilgrims were on the Mayflower?
a)
547
b)
82
c)
122
d)
102
34.
How long was the voyage from England to the New World?
a)
7 months
b)
189 days
c)
66 days
d)
3 months
35.
Of the 102 pilgrims on the Mayflower about how many survived for the Thanksgiving feast?
a)
123
b)
50
c)
194
d)
77
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