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Impress your kids and grandkids with your Thanksgiving knowledge.
We gather together to ask the Lord's blessing;
he chastens and hastens his will to make known…
On Thanksgiving, as we gather friends and family together to share the bounty within our hearts and lives, kids/grandkids are always an important part of the preparation and the festivities -- and they’re always curious and full of questions. Why did the Pilgrims wear those funny hats? Was Pocahontas really an Indian princess? Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving on a Thursday?
This year, you can be the maven (or maven-ess) of Thanksgiving knowledge. Simply Test your Thanksgiving IQ and memorize the answers (listed below).
1. (True or False) Seating children at a separate kiddies’ table started in the 19th century as a Thanksgiving tradition.
2. (True or False) The Mayflower first docked and landed at Plymouth Rock.
3. (True or False) The official first Thanksgiving meal was served and celebrated in 1621.
4. (True or False) The Pilgrims brought beer with them on their voyage to America.
5. (True or False) Ever since Truman was in office, each year the President pardons one turkey and sends him to Frying Pan Park in Virginia.
6. (True or False) Pocahantas was a real Indian princess.
7. (True or False) The first Pilgrims wore black hats and buckles on their shoes.
8. (True or False) The turkey is our national bird.
9. How many Pilgrims were on the 66 day Mayflower voyage from England to America? a) 102 b) 54 c)250 d) 156.
10. (True or False) There were more Indians than Pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving.
11. (True or False) Turkeys really say “gobble, gobble.”
12. Captain John Smith founded what Virginian colony? a) Jamestown b) Richmond c) Roanoke d) Alexandria.
13. In 1924, as a gimmick to boost attendance, which team started the tradition of Thanksgiving Day football? a) Detroit Lions b) Pittsburgh Pirates c) Cleveland Browns d) Kansas City Chiefs.
14. In the 1600’s, which utensil was not used to eat at the Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving feast? a) spoon b) fork c) knife d) hands.
15. Rockwell’s famous 1943 illustration of the traditional family Thanksgiving meal first appeared in: a) Saturday Evening Post b) McCall’s c) Look d) Harper’s.
16. We always celebrate Thanksgiving on a Thursday because: a) Thursday wouldn’t interfere with Sunday prayers b) Thursday wouldn’t interfere with shopping for the week or with meal preparation for the weekend c) Thursday was the Indians’ day of rest d) Thursday was the Pilgrims’ mid prayer-week day.
17. The Mayflower was originally used: a) as a merchant ship to carry wine b) as a fishing ship c) as a transportation ship to carry people d) as a ship to get spices from the far East.
18. The first Thanksgiving lasted: a) 2 months b) 14 days c) 7 days d) 3 days.
19. Turkeys can drown if they: a) look up in the rain b) get their beak stuck in the mud c) hide their heads in a puddle d) swim in water that’s too deep, because they can’t swim.
20. What does the word “Cornucopia” mean? a) It’s the name of a mythological Greek goddess b) Horn of Plenty c) It’s a traditional English corn bread d) It’s what the Indians called Indian corn.
21. What Indian tribe was invited to spend Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims? a) Sioux
b) Wampanoag c) Red Sox d) Comanche.
22. A baby turkey is called: a) a chick b) a squab c) a poult d) a goblet.
23. What part of the turkey do we save and make a wish on? a) wishbone b) thigh bone c) breast bone d) wing bone.
24. What was the name of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to America? a) Nina b) Pinta c) Mayflower d) Santa Maria.
25. Which astronaut was the first one to eat a turkey dinner on the moon? a) Tom Hanks b) Neil Armstrong c) James Lovell, Jr. d) John Glenn.
26. Which of the following was not served at the first Thankgsiving? a) pumpkin pie. b) codfish c) corn on the cob d) deer.
27. Which popular sport was played in the earliest Thanksgiving celebrations? a) football b) shooting contests c) archery d) knife throwing.
28. Which President signed it into law and made Thanksgiving a national holiday? a) Herbert Hoover b) Franklin D. Roosevelt c) Abraham Lincoln d) Harry S. Truman.
29. Who was captain of the Mayflower? a) Christopher Jones b) Miles Standish c) John Smith d) John Rolphe.
30. Who wrote The Courtship of Miles Standish? a) Keats b) Yeats c) Longfellow d) Shelley.
Answers:
1. True
2. False – the water was too shallow to dock, but this is the location where the first landing party first stepped in the new world
3. True
4. True
5. True - but I have to ask, is that where Maddoff went?
6. True – and at the age of only ten, she saved the life of John Smith
7. False –there is no historical evidence of this image as being fact. The Pilgrims actually wore colorful clothing, although the Puritans, who came later, wore all black and buckles on their shoes
8. False –Ben Franklin originally proposed the turkey, but the Eagle was selected as our national bird
9. a) 102
10. True – only 50% of the original 102 Mayflower passengers survived
11. True – but only the male, and only seasonally, when it goes to sleep
12. a) Jamestown
13. a) Detroit Lions
14. (b) fork, because it hadn’t yet been invented
15. a) Saturday Evening Post
16. d) Thursday was the Pilgrims’ mid prayer-week day
17. a) as a merchant ship to carry wine
18. d) 3 days
19. a) look up in the rain
20. b) Horn of Plenty
21. b) Wampanoag
22. c) a poult
23. a) wishbone
24. c) Mayflower
25. b) Neil Armstrong
26. (a) pumpkin pie -- the food supply the Pilgrims came with was very low – they had not yet built ovens for baking, they were afraid that potatoes were poison, and they had no sugar or milk left by the time Thanksgiving came around.
27. b) shooting contests
28. b) FDR actually signed it into law, stating that it is officially celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November; Lincoln originally proclaimed that Thanksgiving be celebrated on the last Thursday in November, but sometimes there are five, so FDR cleared it up for once and for all.
29. a) Christopher Jones
30. c) Longfellow
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