50 Thanksgiving Trivia Questions and Answers for Kids

1. In which month is Thanksgiving celebrated in the United States?

2. On which day of the week is U.S. Thanksgiving always held?

3. What was the name of the ship that carried the Pilgrims across the ocean in 1620?

4. For about how many days did the Wampanoag guests and the colonists feast together in 1621?

5. From which country did the Pilgrims sail in 1620?

6. What did the English colonists name their new town in 1620?

7. The Wampanoag are also known as the People of the First what?

8. Tisquantum, also called Squanto, showed the colonists how to grow which important crop?

9. When the Mayflower first reached land in 1620, which cape did it arrive at?

10. Which ocean did the Mayflower cross?

11. Which country celebrates its Thanksgiving in October?

12. How do you say thank you in Spanish?

13. How do you say thank you in French?

14. In which big city does a famous Thanksgiving Day parade with giant balloons take place?

15. Which gas makes the giant parade balloons float?

16. Each year, a turkey is pardoned so it will not be eaten. At which famous house does this happen?

17. When two people pull a dried wishbone apart, who is said to get their wish?

18. A turkey trot on Thanksgiving morning is what kind of event?

19. What do we call a meal where every guest brings a dish to share?

20. Which bird is usually the main dish at an American Thanksgiving dinner?

21. Which small red berry is cooked into a sweet-and-tart Thanksgiving sauce?

22. Why do cranberries float in water?

23. To harvest cranberries, farmers often flood the bog with what?

24. What kind of plant do cranberries grow on?

25. Pumpkins grow on what kind of plant?

26. Roasted pumpkin seeds are sometimes called what?

27. Where do sweet potatoes grow?

28. What color is the hard outer skin of most pumpkins?

29. In a Three Sisters garden, which tall plant gives the beans something to climb?

30. What is a boy turkey called?

31. What is a girl turkey called?

32. What is a baby turkey called?

33. What sound is a boy turkey famous for making?

34. Where do wild turkeys sleep at night?

35. Can wild turkeys fly?

36. What is the red flap of skin under a turkey's beak called?

37. When a tom turkey shows off, his tail feathers spread out like what?

38. What do young turkeys, called poults, love to eat?

39. The bristly tuft of feathers on a tom turkey's chest is called a what?

40. What is a group of wild turkeys usually called?

41. In which season do many leaves turn red, orange and yellow?

42. What is another name for the fall season?

43. Trees that drop all their leaves in the fall are called what?

44. Some beech trees keep their dead, brown leaves through winter. What is this called?

45. What do many squirrels do with nuts in the fall?

46. When birds fly south for the winter, what is that long trip called?

47. Flocks of Canada geese often fly in the shape of which letter?

48. How many legs does a turkey have?

49. In the fall, many apples are pressed and squeezed to make which drink?

50. When farmers gather their ripe crops in the fall, what is that called?