Thanksgiving and St Andrew's Day Quiz

Americans celebrate Thanksgiving on... and Canadians celebrate it on...

• 4th Thursday in November / 2nd Monday in October

• 1st Thursday in November / 4th Monday in October

• 2nd Monday in October / 4th Thursday in November

• 4th Monday in October / 1st Thursday in November

The tradition of Thanksgiving started with the Pilgrims. They arrived in America on the ... in ...

• Mayflower / December 1620

• Pinta / March 1621

• Nina / January 1621

• Santa Maria / November 1620

The Pilgrims landed on the north-east coast of America and called this area...

• Plymouth

• The Rock

• New York

• Plantation

The first winter was very hard for the Pilgrims, and they were helped by...

• Wampanoag tribe

• Pocahontas and her tribemates

• Sioux Indians

• nobody

An Indian called ... showed the Pilgrims how to plant corn, hunt and live in the wilderness.

• Squanto

• Squantaho

• Sqantino

• Squantano

The first Thanksgiving dinner was the idea of the Pilgrims' leader whose name was...

• Governor William Bradford

• Governor Benjamin Franklin

• Governor Martin Luther King

• Governor George Washington

A famous Thanksgiving celebration is held in ... and it's the ...

• New York / Macy's Thanksgiving Parade

• San Francisco / Thanksgiving bonfires

• Chicago / Thanksgiving Firework Display

• Florida / Thanksgiving Regattas

The oldest museum in the USA that teaches about the Pilgrims is called ..., it is located in .. and it was opened in ...

• Pilgrim Hall Museum / Plymouth, Massachusetts / in 1824

• Pilgrim Hall Museum / Washington D.C. / in 1920

• Thanksgiving Rock / Plymouth, Massachusetts / in 1700

• Thanksgiving Rock / Washington D.C. / in 1840

Every year just before Thanksgiving, a turkey pardoning celebration is held when the president...

• sets a turkey free

• gives the turkey to the White House staff members

• gets the turkey as a present from local farmers

• cooks the turkey

The first Thanksgiving holiday was proclaimed by ... in ...

• Abraham Lincoln / 1863

• Theodore Roosevelt / 1890

• George Washington / 1762

• John Adams / 1799