Thanksgiving Day Challenge Answers
If you were brave enough to take our Thanksgiving Day Challenge you deserve to know the answers. There are some extra tidbits of information in there for you as well. Impress your family this year with your knowledge of this beloved holiday!
- Americans feast on 535 million pounds of turkey on Thanksgiviing.
- Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be our national bird.
- Domesticated turkeys cannot fly, however wild turkeys can fly up to 55 miles per hour over short distances.
- Only make (tom) turkeys gobble. Females (hen) make a clicking noise.
- The heaviest turkey weighed in at 86 pounds- about the size of a German Shepard.
- A turkey under 16 weeks of age is called a fryer. A 5-7 month old is called a roaster.
- Turkeys are known to spend the night in trees.
- Turkeys can drown if they look up when its raining.
- A turkey's field of vision is 270 degrees- one of the main reasons they elude hunters.
- The average age of the Mayflower passenger was 32. The oldest was 64.
- Pilgrims never wore buckles on their hat or shoes.
- There was no milk, butter, bread, cheese, or pumpkin pie at the first Thanksgiving feast.
- The cranberry got its name because of the pale pink blossoms on the plant resembled a crane's head and neck. Craneberry stuck and then became cranberry.
- Cranberries of high quality will bounce.
- President Abe Lincoln established the original date for the Thanksgiving celebration in 1863. Congress did not declare it a holiday until 1941.
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