100 Fun Thanksgiving Trivia Quiz (Part 3)

[A] Lions and Cowboys | The Lions have played on Thanksgiving since 1934 and the Cowboys since 1966, making them as much a part of the holiday as cranberry sauce.

[A] Five | Only five women survived that first winter to attend the feast. They cooked for 140 people for three days straight, basically inventing the exhausted hostess tradition.

[C] The 1920s | Both parades started when America discovered giant balloons improve everything. The Roaring Twenties included roaring cartoon characters floating down main streets.

[B] Venison, swan, duck, and goose | The Pilgrims ate like medieval nobility with swans and multiple waterfowl species. Turkey was probably there but definitely wasn't the star.

[D] True | Turkey breast contains more protein per serving than chicken or lean beef. Bodybuilders should be eating turkey year-round instead of boring chicken breasts.

[C] False | Tryptophan gets blamed but cheese and beef have more of it. You're tired because you ate your body weight in carbs, not because of turkey.

[D] False | Turkeys see colors better than humans, including ultraviolet spectrum. They judge your outfit choices while you're deciding how to cook them.

[D] Up to 25 mph | Wild turkeys are surprisingly athletic, capable of short bursts of flight and running at speeds that would make them difficult to catch, unlike their farm-raised cousins.

[B] Balloons | The first parade in 1924 featured live animals from Central Park Zoo instead. Camels and elephants on Broadway proved more chaotic than giant Snoopy.

[B] Abraham Lincoln | Though the formal tradition started much later, Lincoln reportedly spared a turkey in the 1860s after his son Tad pleaded for its life, making it the first known presidential turkey pardon.

[C] North Carolina | The same state dominating turkey production also grows 60% of American sweet potatoes. North Carolina basically produces entire Thanksgiving dinners.

[D] A wattle | The wattle helps regulate turkey body temperature like a gross thermostat. Both males and females have them, making turkey necks universally unattractive.

[D] 17 | Ocean Spray designed exactly 17 ridges to strengthen the can and create serving guides. People who count them at dinner need better conversation topics.

[C] Clicking noises | Female turkeys click and cluck rather than gobble, preferring subtle communication. They're basically rolling their eyes at male gobbling nonsense.

[C] In Plymouth Colony | Plymouth gets all the credit despite earlier thanksgivings happening elsewhere. They had better marketing and a rock, which apparently matters.

[A] Jingle Bells | Written for Thanksgiving 1857, it migrated to Christmas because sleighs and snow. Thanksgiving lost its only secular song to its attention-hogging neighbor holiday.

[C] Of Plymouth Plantation | Bradford's journal provides most first-hand Pilgrim accounts we have today. Without his writing, Thanksgiving would be based entirely on guesswork and wishful thinking.

[B] They prayed and fasted | Pilgrims fasted and prayed when things went badly, opposite of feast thanksgivings. They basically invented the guilt cleanse centuries before juice cleanses.

[D] Mexico | Aztecs were making pumpkin desserts before Europeans knew pumpkins existed. Columbus brought pumpkins to Europe, but Mexico had pie figured out already.

[C] Brown, orange, yellow, and red | These autumn colors dominate every Thanksgiving decoration ever made. It's basically fall's color palette having a dinner party.

[D] The gizzard, heart, and liver | These organs come in that mysterious bag inside your turkey. Most people throw them away, missing out on gravy gold.

[B] French fried onions | Durkee French Fried Onions basically exist for this one dish annually. The rest of the year they sit on shelves wondering about their purpose.

[B] Brining | Brining makes turkey juicier by forcing salt water into the muscle fibers. It's basically giving your turkey a spa treatment before cooking it.

[D] Up to four days | After four days, leftover turkey becomes a science experiment. This deadline creates the traditional post-Thanksgiving sandwich marathon.

[B] Seven | Turkey, Texas; Turkey Creek, Louisiana; and five others honor our feathered friends geographically. These towns have the most confusing Thanksgiving celebrations ever.

[D] Home cooking fires | Fire departments stay busy as amateur chefs discover deep frying turkeys is dangerous. Nothing says Thanksgiving like explaining to insurance why your garage is charred.

[D] 24 hours | One day per 4-5 pounds means big turkeys need a week of thawing. Most people discover this Thanksgiving morning, inventing the "turkey in the bathtub" panic method.

[A] No longer than two hours | The two-hour rule prevents turkey from becoming a bacteria buffet. This deadline has ruined many leisurely post-dinner conversations.

[C] 53 | Only 53 Pilgrims survived to celebrate, half the Mayflower's original passengers. The 90 Wampanoag guests seriously outnumbered their hosts.

[C] Between 3 and 4 p.m. | This mid-afternoon slot allows for maximum feasting while still leaving room for a second round of leftovers later in the evening.

[A] About 100,000 | Butterball experts answer panicked cooking questions from November through December. They've heard every possible turkey disaster and several impossible ones.

[B] Snoopy | Snoopy serves toast and popcorn for Thanksgiving dinner, setting unrealistic expectations. His meal planning makes actual cooking look masterful by comparison.

[C] 11 | Eleven guests means setting up the card table for overflow seating. It's exactly enough people for awkward political discussions to become unavoidable.

[A] The potato | Potatoes were grown on space shuttle Columbia in 1995. Astronauts proved even in zero gravity, humans want their carbs.

[B] 118 | That innocent half-cup packs 118 calories before adding gravy. Nobody eats just half a cup, making this measurement adorably optimistic.

[A] Angelus Marshmallows | In 1917, the company hired a recipe writer to promote their marshmallows, and a classic Thanksgiving dish was born from pure advertising genius.

[A] 2007 | Friendsgiving emerged when millennials started choosing friends over family dysfunction. It's Thanksgiving without the generational trauma and assigned seating.

[B] Between noon and 8 p.m. | Eight hours of peak traffic makes the day before Thanksgiving travel hell. Smart people leave at 4 AM or just stay home entirely.

[A] Wisconsin | Wisconsin produces 65% of America's cranberries in human-made bogs. They flood fields to harvest berries, making farming look like elaborate pool parties.

[A] About 440 | It takes roughly 440 cranberries to make a pound, and about 4,400 to make a gallon of juice. That's a lot of bouncing berries.