Thanksgiving Facts
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- 1. America's second-favorite holiday
- 3. Native Americans used these for food, medicine, and dye
- 7. The name for the English Tradition that may have been the first Thanksgiving
- 9. The Native American tribes that inhabited the East Coast of the US
- 12. This state has 600 turkey farms
- 13. They are busiest on the day after Thanksgiving
- 16. The first Thanksgiving meal in space was eaten aboard this space station
- 18. The president that first pardoned a turkey
- 20. People love these more than Thanksgiving dinner
- 21. Originally a Thanksgiving song
- 22. The sound a male turkey makes
- 23. Inventor of the giant balloons
- 25. The type of pie Americans love most
- 28. This NFL team began its tradition of hosting a game on Thanksgiving in 1934
- 30. High winds made it hard to control this balloon in 1993
- 31. The largest pumpkin pie ever was made here
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- 2. One of the other "Thanksgivings" that the Native Americans celebrated before the Pilgrims arrived
- 4. This president made pardoning the turkey a formal tradition
- 5. The first national day of thanksgiving in America was established to celebrate a victory over the British in this battle:
- 6. One of the four states where you can find a town named, "Turkey"
- 8. Around 1,000 of these holiday races take place around the country on the morning of Thanksgiving
- 10. This Turkey Talk-Line answers more than 100,000 turkey-cooking questions
- 11. The sound a female turkey makes
- 14. 3.5 million people attend this parade in person
- 15. This treaty between the Pilgrims and the Native Americans lasted for about 50 years
- 17. One of the four states where you can find a town named, "Turkey"
- 19. The president who refused to recognize Thanksgiving
- 24. The state that produces 236 million pounds of turkey annually
- 26. This movie was the biggest Thanksgiving movie opening of all time
- 27. This president started the tradition
- 29. Ancient Romans believed this could predict the future