• Thanksgiving week – Have FUN to see what you know.

America celebrates Thanksgiving on the 4th Thursday of November.  When does Canada observe Thanksgiving?

 

 

 

• • 1.  Where did the Mayflower Ship set sail from?  London, Dartmouth or Plymouth, UK   
  • 2.  How long was the Mayflower’s voyage from England to America?   45 Days, 66 Days or 106 Days  

• 3.  How many passengers were on the Mayflower?   45 Passengers, 87 Passengers or 102 Passengers  

• 4.  What do Marilyn Monroe, Meryl Streep, Matt Damon and Taylor Swift all have in common? 

5.  Where did the Pilgrims first land when arriving on America’s shores?   Boston, Plymouth or Provincetown, Massachusetts  

 

• 6.  Where did the Pilgrims settle?  Plymouth, Boston or Provincetown   

7.  True or false: The Pilgrims referred to themselves as “Pilgrims.” 

 

• 8.  What is an adult female turkey called? 
• 9.  What is an adult male turkey called? 
• 10.  Are pumpkins technically a fruit or a vegetable? 

• 11.  Which retailer was the first to host a Thanksgiving Day parade? 

12.  What holiday was the first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade commemorating? 

 

• ANSWERS:
• Canada observes Thanksgiving on the 2nd Monday in October
  1.  The Mayflower set sail on 16th September 1620 from Plymouth, UK, to voyage to America.

2.  66 days

 

3.  102 Passengers

 

4.  According to the New England Historic Genealogical Society, all these celebrities were all descendants of passengers or crew on the Mayflower.

 

5.  Provincetown, Massachusetts

 

6.  Though the Mayflower initially landed off the coast of Cape Cod, they ultimately settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

 

7.  False. They called themselves “Separatists

8.  A hen

 

9.  A tom

 

10.  Fruit

 

11.  Gimbels department store hosted a Thanksgiving Day parade in Philadelphia in 1920, four years before Macy’s held their first.

 

12.  Christmas

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

JR

USPTA