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Big round (ages 12 and up): Thanksgiving. Pages: the ten question cards, two answer sheets to a page (print one page per two teams), and the key on the last page, to fold back.
1. Potatoes began about nine million years ago when ancestors of which plant mixed with another group?
- A. the onion
- B. the tomato
- C. the carrot
2. In what year did a federal law fix Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday in November?
- A. 1789
- B. 1941
- C. 1863
3. After the 1939 date change, for how many years did the U.S. have two different Thanksgiving days?
- A. twenty years
- B. ten years
- C. two years
4. Horace Vose, the "Poultry King" who sent turkeys to presidents for years, lived in which state?
- A. Rhode Island
- B. Vermont
- C. Ohio
5. A pumpkin's orange color comes from pigments rich in which substance?
- A. chlorophyll
- B. caffeine
- C. beta-carotene
6. What is the fleshy flap that drapes over a male turkey's bill called?
- A. the snood
- B. the beard
- C. the comb
7. Wild turkeys rarely fly far, but how fast can they fly?
- A. up to about 5 miles per hour
- B. up to about 54 miles per hour
- C. up to about 154 miles per hour
8. The cranberry got its name because its flower looks like the head of which bird?
- A. a crane
- B. a robin
- C. a parrot
9. Giant balloons first joined the big New York City Thanksgiving parade in which year?
- A. 1960
- B. 1924
- C. 1927
10. Cranberries belong to the heath family along with which other berry?
- A. blueberries
- B. strawberries
- C. raspberries
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The key (for the host: fold this page back)
- B: the tomato. The other group, called Etuberosum, gave potatoes a gene for growing underground stems.
- B: 1941. The law was a joint resolution of Congress, H.J. Res. 41.
- C: two years. Some states kept the last Thursday while others followed the earlier date.
- A: Rhode Island. He supplied White House holiday turkeys from 1873 until 1913.
- C: beta-carotene. Pumpkin goes into pies, breads, soups and custards.
- A: the snood. The wattle is a different part: the bib that hangs below the chin.
- B: up to about 54 miles per hour. They seldom fly more than 100 yards at a time, and they can even swim.
- A: a crane. The cranberry's scientific name is Vaccinium macrocarpon.
- C: 1927. That was the parade's fourth year; today the balloons are filled with helium.
- A: blueberries. The American cranberry is a woody vine native to northeastern North America.
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