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Thanksgiving Bar Trivia Questions: Printable Round

Hosting a trivia night at a bar, at school or at home? Print this round of 10 questions for your quizmaster, with an answer key on its own page. Read the choices aloud for an easier round, or hide them for a tougher one. Prefer to play? Take the quiz online.

Questions

  1. What is a male turkey called?

    1. A buck
    2. A drake
    3. A rooster
    4. A tom

  2. Which Native American people joined the Plymouth colonists for the 1621 harvest celebration?

    1. The Seminole
    2. The Lakota
    3. The Cherokee
    4. The Wampanoag

  3. Which cartoon character was the first giant balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, in 1927?

    1. Felix the Cat
    2. Mickey Mouse
    3. Popeye
    4. Betty Boop

  4. According to colonist Edward Winslow, about how long did the 1621 harvest celebration at Plymouth last?

    1. One week
    2. One afternoon
    3. A full month
    4. Three days

  5. Unlike most farm-raised turkeys, what can wild turkeys do?

    1. Swim underwater
    2. Hibernate
    3. Fly
    4. Change color with the seasons

  6. Which president issued the first national Thanksgiving proclamation under the US Constitution, in 1789?

    1. George Washington
    2. Thomas Jefferson
    3. John Adams
    4. James Madison

  7. Dorcas Reilly created which Thanksgiving side dish in a Campbell's test kitchen in 1955?

    1. Cornbread stuffing
    2. Sweet potato casserole
    3. Green bean casserole
    4. Cranberry relish

  8. Which Founding Father praised the turkey over the bald eagle in a 1784 letter to his daughter?

    1. John Hancock
    2. Samuel Adams
    3. Thomas Jefferson
    4. Benjamin Franklin

  9. Who was the Native leader who attended the 1621 harvest feast at Plymouth?

    1. Sitting Bull
    2. Massasoit
    3. Pocahontas
    4. Tecumseh

  10. Which Patuxet man, who spoke English, helped the Plymouth colonists learn to plant corn?

    1. Metacomet
    2. Squanto
    3. Uncas
    4. Samoset

Answer key

  1. A tom (D)

    Female turkeys are called hens, and baby turkeys are called poults.

  2. The Wampanoag (D)

    Wampanoag homelands stretched across what is now southeastern Massachusetts and eastern Rhode Island.

  3. Felix the Cat (A)

    Balloons took over from the live zoo animals that had marched in the first parade in 1924.

  4. Three days (D)

    Winslow wrote that about 90 Native men came and brought five deer to share.

  5. Fly (C)

    Wild turkeys spend the night roosting in trees, flapping up into the branches at dusk.

  6. George Washington (A)

    He set aside Thursday, November 26, 1789, as a day of public thanksgiving.

  7. Green bean casserole (C)

    She developed it in Camden, New Jersey, around canned soup, green beans and crispy fried onions.

  8. Benjamin Franklin (D)

    It was a private letter, and he never formally proposed the turkey as a national symbol.

  9. Massasoit (B)

    Massasoit, also known as Ousamequin, had made an alliance with the Plymouth colonists earlier that year.

  10. Squanto (B)

    Also called Tisquantum, he learned English after being kidnapped and taken to Europe years earlier.

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