Test your Thanksgiving smarts
Sash and Malia Obama with Courage, the turkey President Obama “pardoned” in 2009. (By Marvin Joseph – THE WASHINGTON POST)
Here are 10 questions that will test just how much you know about the history of Thanksgiving. Answers, with explanations, are below.
1) True or False. The Pilgrims who sailed to the New World in 1620 on the Mayflower had a smooth Atlantic crossing which they took to be a sign from God that they should settle in the New World.
2) Along with Squanto, a Patuxet Indian, with whom did the Pilgrims dine at Plymouth Colony in 1621, commonly said to be the first Thanksgiving (though earlier such feasts had taken place and it didn’t set a precedent)?
a) Wampanoag Indians b) Delaware Indians c) Nauset Indians d) Massachuset Indians
3) The one account of that 1621 Thanksgiving dinner written at the time says this was served:
a) venison b) chicken c) turkey d) pie