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Ultimate Thanksgiving Trivia: Feast, Football & Fun

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This board helps players review Thanksgiving through a Jeopardy-style game format on Kleveroo. It includes categories such as Gobble Knowledge, Pass the Plate, How It Started, Parades & Pigskin, Thanksgiving on Screen. It is useful for classroom review, team trivia, family game night, test prep, and group play.

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  • Gobble Knowledge

    What sound is a turkey famous for making?

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    Gobble

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  • Pass the Plate

    Which tart red berry is cooked into a classic Thanksgiving sauce?

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    Cranberry

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  • How It Started

    On which Thursday of November is Thanksgiving celebrated in the United States?

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    The fourth Thursday

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  • Parades & Pigskin

    Which city hosts the famous Thanksgiving parade through Manhattan?

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    New York City

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  • Thanksgiving on Screen

    Which animated 1973 special features Snoopy preparing toast, popcorn, pretzel sticks, and jelly beans?

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    A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

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  • Traditions & Twists

    What small bone do two people pull apart while making a wish?

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    The wishbone

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Gobble Knowledge

$100 — What sound is a turkey famous for making?
Gobble
$200 — What is an adult male turkey commonly called?
A tom (also accept: gobbler)
$300 — What is the fleshy flap that hangs over a turkey’s beak called?
A snood
$400 — Unlike most domestic turkeys, wild turkeys can do this for short distances.
Fly
$500 — What unusual word can describe a group of turkeys?
A rafter (also accept: flock)
$600 — In a letter to his daughter, which bird did Benjamin Franklin call more respectable than the bald eagle?
The turkey

Pass the Plate

$100 — Which tart red berry is cooked into a classic Thanksgiving sauce?
Cranberry
$200 — Which orange side dish is often baked with marshmallows on top?
Sweet potatoes (also accept: yams)
$300 — What bread-based side dish may be cooked inside the bird or separately in a pan?
Stuffing (also accept: dressing)
$400 — Which casserole was developed in Campbell’s test kitchen by Dorcas Reilly in 1955?
Green bean casserole
$500 — Which pie is named for the nut that fills it?
Pecan pie
$600 — What three-bird dish combines a chicken inside a duck inside a turkey?
Turducken

How It Started

$100 — On which Thursday of November is Thanksgiving celebrated in the United States?
The fourth Thursday
$200 — Which Indigenous nation shared the 1621 harvest gathering with the English colonists?
The Wampanoag
$300 — Near which present-day Massachusetts town did the 1621 gathering take place?
Plymouth
$400 — Which U.S. president proclaimed a national Thanksgiving observance in 1863?
Abraham Lincoln
$500 — Approximately how many days did the 1621 harvest gathering last?
Three days
$600 — Which magazine editor and author spent decades campaigning for a national Thanksgiving holiday?
Sarah Josepha Hale

Parades & Pigskin

$100 — Which city hosts the famous Thanksgiving parade through Manhattan?
New York City
$200 — Which department store sponsors the famous Thanksgiving Day Parade through Manhattan?
Macy’s
$300 — Which NFL team from Michigan traditionally hosts a Thanksgiving game?
The Detroit Lions
$400 — Which NFL team from Texas began its Thanksgiving hosting tradition in 1966?
The Dallas Cowboys
$500 — In what year was the first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade held?
1924
$600 — Which cartoon cat became the Thanksgiving Day Parade’s first giant balloon character in 1927?
Felix the Cat

Thanksgiving on Screen

$100 — Which animated 1973 special features Snoopy preparing toast, popcorn, pretzel sticks, and jelly beans?
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
$200 — Which comedy follows two mismatched travelers desperately trying to get home for Thanksgiving?
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
$300 — On Friends, which character famously put a turkey on her head to make Chandler laugh?
Monica Geller
$400 — Which sitcom staged the disastrous “Turkey Drop” promotion?
WKRP in Cincinnati
$500 — In which movie does Wednesday Addams rebel during a Thanksgiving pageant at summer camp?
Addams Family Values
$600 — Which comedian released “The Thanksgiving Song”?
Adam Sandler

Traditions & Twists

$100 — What small bone do two people pull apart while making a wish?
The wishbone
$200 — What horn-shaped symbol of abundance is often filled with fruits and vegetables?
A cornucopia
$300 — What lighthearted White House tradition spares a turkey from becoming dinner?
The presidential turkey pardon
$400 — What shopping day immediately follows Thanksgiving in the United States?
Black Friday
$500 — On which Monday in October does Canada celebrate Thanksgiving?
The second Monday
$600 — Which Japanese holiday observed on November 23 is sometimes compared with Thanksgiving?
Labor Thanksgiving Day

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