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Thanksgiving quiz — Autumn

The “Thanksgiving” quiz — Autumn. It has 25 questions in five categories: 1621 Gathering, Feast & Ingredients, Calendar & Presidents, Parade & Pigskin, Customs & Perspectives. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.

  • 25 questions · 5 categories

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Buzzo quiz: Thanksgiving

A peek at the questions

The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.

1621 Gathering

  1. 100Picture for the question

    Which colony held the famous 1621 autumn harvest gathering?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    Which Native nation joined the English colonists at that 1621 harvest gathering?

  3. 300

    For how many days…

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  4. 400

    About how many men…

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  5. 500

    What was the personal…

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Feast & Ingredients

  1. 100Picture for the question

    Which creamy side, pictured, is made by boiling and crushing starchy tubers with butter or milk?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    What seasoned bread mixture is a classic Thanksgiving side, cooked inside the bird or separately?

  3. 300

    Which spiced dessert, pictured…

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  4. 400

    What older name for…

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  5. 500

    What corn-and-lima-bean dish has…

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Calendar & Presidents

  1. 100

    On which Thursday of November is U.S. Thanksgiving fixed by federal law?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    Which president, pictured, issued the 1863 proclamation that set Thanksgiving on the last Thursday of November?

  3. 300

    Which president, pictured, proclaimed…

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  4. 400

    Which president moved Thanksgiving…

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  5. 500

    Which magazine editor, pictured…

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Parade & Pigskin

  1. 100

    Which department store launched New York's famous Thanksgiving parade in 1924?

  2. 200

    Where did the famous 1924 New York department-store parade borrow its live animals from?

  3. 300

    Which puppeteer, pictured, helped…

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  4. 400

    Which NFL team began…

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  5. 500

    Which NFL team began…

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Customs & Perspectives

  1. 100

    What retail nickname is given to the day after U.S. Thanksgiving?

  2. 200

    Canada observes Thanksgiving on the second Monday of which month?

  3. 300

    Which president issued the…

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  4. 400

    What Indigenous-led observance began…

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  5. 500

    Which traditional English end-of-harvest…

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