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O.K. I know some of this is pretty basic stuff, so you should get them all right?

I will publish the answers over the weekend.

1. Thanksgiving is celebrated only in the U.S. True or False?
   
   
2. The Greek Goddess of corn is: Demeter, Cornucopia, Ceres, Grainophilia?
   
   
3. What is the name of the famous rock credited to be where the Pilgrims first landed?
   
   
4. The Indians who were invited to the Thanksgiving feast were of the Wampanoag tribe.  Who was their chief?  Massasoit, Pemaquid, Samoset,  Squanto?
   
   
5. Who was the captain of the Mayflower?
   
   
6. Thanksgiving became a national holiday thanks to this woman who was the editor of a woman’s magazine called “The Godey’s Lady’s Book” :  Sarah Hale, Sarah Parker, Sarah Bradford, Sarah Brandish?
   
   
7. Which president was the first to establish Thanksgiving as a legal national holiday to be held the 4th Thurs. in Nov? Lincoln, FDR, Jefferson, James Madison?
   
   
8. What was the original name for the Pilgrims?  Puritans, Partisans, Settlers, Journeymen?
   
   
9. The word Turkey is said to come from the Hebrew word, “Tukki” which means:  Big Bird, Pheasant Bird, Wild Bird, Turk’s Bird?
   
   
10. Which President moved Thanksgiving up one week to Stimulate the Christmas shopping economy?  Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Kennedy, Eisenhower?
    
    
11. What is the book that Gov. William Bradford wrote telling of the troubles and experiences of the pilgrims?  A Pilgrim’s Progress, Of Plimouth Plantation, of Plimouth Rock?
    
    
12. Captain John Smith founded what colony in Virginia?
    
    
13. What poet wrote “The Courtship of Miles Standish”?  Longfellow, Keats, Yeats, Shelley.
    
    
14. The town of Plymouth, MA celebrates this every year on Dec. 11:  Miles Standish’s birthday, Forefathers’ Day, Priscilla Alden’s birthday, William Bradford’s death?
    
    
15. The real Plymouth Rock is cracked.  True or False?
    
    
16. In what year did Macy’s first Thanksgiving Parade take place?  1864, 1894, 1904, 1924?
    
    
17. It is believed that how many women survived to celebrate the first Thanksgiving in 1621,  5, 15, 25?
    
    
18. The first Thanksgiving in 1621 was said to have lasted how many days?  1, 3, 7?
    
    
19. Every year the U.S. president pardons a turkey.  Who was the first president to start this tradition? Jackson, Fillmore, Truman, Harding?
    
    
20. The busiest travel day of the year is :  the Friday after Thanksgiving,  the day after Xmas,  the day after New Year’s,  the day after Labor Day?
    
    
21. Which was the first balloon in the 1927 Macy’s parade?  Mickey Mouse, Felix the Cat, Betty Boop, Superman?
    
    
22. Turkeys can drown if they look up in the rain.  True or False?
    
    
23. Which of the following is not a real town in the U.S.?  Turkey TX, Turkey Creek, LA, Turkey, NC,  Turkey Feather, NM?
    
    
24. Back in the early 1600s the Pilgrims did not have which of the following to eat their  meal with?  Spoons, forks, knives?
    
    
25. How many Pilgrim s were on the Mayflower?  92, 102,  122?
    
    
26. How many days was the voyage from England to the New World?  66, 106,  1146?
    
    
27. Of the original Pilgrims that came how many survived to celebrate the first Thanksgiving?  101, 50, 10?
    
    
28. The Mayflower was not built as a transport ship.  What was its purpose? A merchant wine ship,  fishing ship, to get spices from the Far East?
    
    
29. Not everyone on the Mayflower was traveling to the New World to settle.  Was their purpose to  get furs and lumber to send back to England, scientific exploration and mapping, to get away from their parents? 
    
    
30. Which sport did they take best on during early celebrations?  Shooting, Archery,  Knife Throwing?
    
    
31. Before being made a national holiday when was Thanksgiving celebrated?  Whenever people felt like it,  the first full moon of Nov,  whenever the state governor said so?
    
    
32. A Boston restaurant called “The Top of the Hub” delivers meals each Thanksgiving to which group?  The homeless living behind the restaurant,  the Boylston Street Fire Station,  the member of the Boston Town Council.
    
    
33. The governor of which state refused to issue a Thanksgiving Proclamation  stating that it was “a damned Yankee institution anyway”? Louisiana, South Carolina, Texas?
    
    
34. The first Thanksgiving football game was started  in 1934 by the Pittsburgh Steelers, Kansas City Chiefs, Detroit Lions?
    
    
35. By 1760 what became the priority at Thanksgiving?  Food, Prayer, Politics?
    
    
36. In 1705 a ship in Colchester, MA was frozen in the harbor so people delayed Thanksgiving one week so that what important Thanksgiving item could be brought ashore?  Tea, Molasses, Cinnamon?
    
    
37. Back in the 1620s the Pilgrims celebrated a “Day of Humiliation”. What did they do on that day?  Prayed and fasted, confessed a lie they had told, 
    asked for forgiveness for eating too much on Thanksgiving?
    
    
38. Which is said to be the origin of the  Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade? Mummer’s Parade, Ragamuffin Parade, Fall Indian Pow Wows?
    
    
39. At the end of the 19th century the rich, refined Victorians wrote out their menu courses in which language?  French, Italian, Latin?
    
    
40. In 1627 what was $3 equivalent to?  A day’s pay, a week’s pay, a month’s pay?