Thanksgiving

Turkey Day trivia to be thankful for

I give thanks for trivia. And turkey.

Thanksgiving is this Thursday, so it’s time to talk turkey. Or, you know, trivia about turkeys.

Sherman Helmsley says Happy thanksgiving jive turkeys

Fast facts: The state that produces the most turkeys annually is Minnesota. TV dinners were born out of a surplus of Thanksgiving turkeys that Swanson didn’t want to waste. Big Bird is canonically a canary, but the big bird costume uses turkey feathers.

Some of these questions are about the birds, some aren’t, but all of them would be perfect with a side of mashed potatoes and gravy. 

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Questions:

  1. Though Istanbul is its largest city, what is the capital of Turkey?
  2. On “Friends,” two characters are shown to have once put an entire uncooked turkey on their heads. Which two?
  3. In order to score a turkey in bowling, what do you have to roll?
  4. “Jive Turkey” was a minor 1974 hit for what funk and R&B group named for their home state who had a huge hit a year later with “Love Rollercoaster”?
  5. Various presidents had all “spared the lives” of turkeys presented to them at the White House by — believe it or not — turkey lobbyists, but what president formalized the now annual tradition of pardoning a turkey for Thanksgiving?

Answers up after a compilation of the best “Friends” Thanksgiving moments. (Spoiler: Turkeys aren’t beautiful and intelligent, they are ugly and delicious.)

Answers:

  1. Ankara
  2. Joey and Monica
  3. Three strikes in a row
  4. Ohio Players
  5. George H.W. Bush

Happy Thanksgiving! Time to start Christmas and Hanukkah shopping. How about a trivia book for the “Friends” fan in your life?