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81 free Friendsgiving trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
50 free Friendsgiving trivia questions with answers. Ready to celebrate the spirit of friendship and gratitude? Our Friendsgiving trivia quiz is the perfect way to test your knowledge about this beloved modern holiday tradition. Whether you're a Friendsgiving veteran or new to the concept, discover fun facts and put your expertise to the test!
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Q 01Commentators often tie Friendsgiving's rise to which idea of kinship, long common in LGBTQ+ communities?
Chosen family
Chosen family means friends who fill a relative's place, which is why the meal caught on with LGBTQ+ people estranged from parents and with city transplants far from home.
Q 02Which reality show's 2011 episode 'Gobblefellas' helped carry the word 'Friendsgiving' to a national audience?
The Real Housewives of New Jersey
The Real Housewives of New Jersey made a Friendsgiving dinner a plot point in the same year an ad campaign took up the word, and dictionary editors saw its use climb steadily from 2012.
Q 03A Friendsgiving meal is usually organised as which kind of get-together?
A potluck
A potluck spreads the cooking across the guests, which is why the host of a Friendsgiving rarely has to roast everything alone.
Q 04Which dictionary added 'Friendsgiving' in January 2020, dating its first known use to 2007?
Merriam-Webster
Merriam-Webster had tracked the word since it surfaced on Twitter and the message board Usenet, and added it 13 years later once it was clear the term was here to stay.
Q 05Like 'brunch' and 'motel', the word 'Friendsgiving' is an example of what?
A portmanteau
A portmanteau packs two words into one; this one spread fast, dictionary editors say, because 'friends' plus 'Thanksgiving' needs no explaining.
Q 06Which liqueur brand's 2011 ad campaign helped push the word 'Friendsgiving' into the mainstream?
Baileys
Baileys ran ads saying Friendsgiving 'is all about being with your other family', and dictionary editors date the word's leap to national prominence to that year.
Q 07For most celebrants, how does Friendsgiving relate to the family Thanksgiving meal?
It is a second, separate gathering
For most people it is a second, separate gathering on top of the family meal, a shift from the early substitute version; a minority now skip the family dinner altogether.
Q 08Which Founding Father called the turkey 'a much more respectable bird' than the bald eagle?
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin wrote the line in 1784, in a letter addressed to his daughter that mocked a society of ex-officers; he never proposed the turkey as a national symbol.
Q 09Which 1973 animated special has been called 'perhaps an early example of Friendsgiving'?
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving has Peppermint Patty invite herself and two friends over, so Snoopy dishes up toast, popcorn, pretzels and jelly beans, and she fumes that it isn't a real dinner.
Q 10Because Friendsgiving guests are forgiving, some cooks use the meal as a chance to do what before the family holiday?
Test-drive new recipes
Test-drive new recipes on friends first, since pre-holiday Friendsgivings are a free-for-all while meals on Thanksgiving Day itself usually replicate the classic dinner.
Q 11Arlo Guthrie's talking-blues classic 'Alice's Restaurant Massacree' runs roughly how long?
About 18 minutes
About 18 minutes long, it takes up a whole album side, and rock stations turned playing it in full into a once-a-year Thanksgiving ritual.
Q 12What nickname did critics give FDR's 1939 Thanksgiving, moved a week earlier for Christmas shopping?
Franksgiving
Critics dubbed the relocated holiday 'Franksgiving'. November 1939 had five Thursdays, the last falling on the 30th, which alarmed retailers; the change split the states, some keeping the old date.
Q 13Think-tank writer Michael Hendrix argued Friendsgiving grew partly out of which trend among millennials?
Q 21The Thanksgiving dinner that inspired 'Alice's Restaurant' was hosted by Alice and Ray Brock in what kind of home?
A former church
A former church in Massachusetts was the Brocks' home, where they fed their friends that Thanksgiving; Arlo Guthrie later bought the building and turned it into the Guthrie Center.
Q 22Which NFL team has hosted a game on Thanksgiving Day every year since 1945?
Detroit Lions
The Detroit Lions have hosted on Thanksgiving every year since 1945; owner George A. Richards began the tradition in 1934 to draw attention to his new team, and it paused only from 1939 to 1944.
Q 23Canada's Thanksgiving is held on which day each year?
Second Monday in October
Delayed household formation
Delayed household formation was his reason: with marriage and children coming later, he wrote, friends fill the seats a growing family once took at the table.
Q 14Green bean casserole was created in 1955 by Dorcas Reilly while working for which food maker?
Campbell's
Dorcas Reilly devised it at Campbell's in Camden, New Jersey, as an everyday side called Green Bean Bake; it became a Thanksgiving fixture only in the 1960s, once the recipe went on the can's label.
Q 15In 'Alice's Restaurant', what Thanksgiving 1965 errand for Alice and Ray lands Arlo Guthrie in trouble?
Taking their garbage to the dump
Taking their garbage to the dump failed because it was closed for Thanksgiving, so he tipped the load down a hillside and was fined for littering; in the song, that record gets him rejected by the draft board.
Q 16Which company's first TV Dinner, in 1953, was a turkey meal with cornbread stuffing?
Swanson
Swanson's dinner has a famous origin story: salesman Gerry Thomas said it used up a huge surplus of unsold Thanksgiving turkey, though the Swanson heirs dispute his account.
Q 17Like Friendsgiving, which friends-first holiday began on Parks and Recreation in 2010?
Galentine's Day
Galentine's Day was Leslie Knope's party for her women friends; real life copied it, and in 2023 the president of the Massachusetts Senate threw one for more than 100 of the state's influential women.
Q 18Where did the Bidens host their Friendsgiving-style turkey dinner in 2022?
A Marine base
A Marine base in North Carolina, Cherry Point, hosted about 400 service members and relatives, with the president and first lady serving the food themselves.
Q 19What did the giant character balloons replace when they joined the Macy's Thanksgiving parade in 1927?
Live zoo animals
Live zoo animals, among them bears, elephants and camels borrowed from the Central Park Zoo, walked the first parades; their roars are said to have scared children along the route.
Q 20Which 2 Broke Girls star appears with Malin Åkerman in Nicol Paone's 2020 comedy Friendsgiving?
Kat Dennings
Kat Dennings plays Abby, whose quiet holiday for two with her best friend swells into a crowded, chaotic dinner party; critics were unkind, with a 19% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Second Monday in October has been the rule since 1957; from 1921 the feast shared a November Monday with Armistice Day, until the two were split in 1931 to give veterans a day of their own.
Q 24Which turkey brand has run a Turkey Talk-Line for panicked Thanksgiving cooks since 1981?
Butterball
Butterball has staffed the hotline every November since, and by 2013 the firm had spotted a second market, filing to trademark the phrase 'Butterball Friendsgiving'.
Q 25Cajun chef Paul Prudhomme is generally credited with introducing which three-bird holiday dish?
Turducken
Turducken, a chicken inside a duck inside a turkey, became a national craze after broadcaster John Madden tore into one with his bare hands during NFL telecasts.
Q 26Besides groups of friends, who else now commonly throws a Friendsgiving as a holiday party?
Coworkers
Coworkers have made the office a common site for Friendsgiving; one participant told The Atlantic it relieves year-end stress and works as 'a teaser for the main event'.
Q 27What role does the second turkey play at a modern White House turkey pardon?
An alternate
An alternate waits in the wings in case the star bird turns unruly or falls ill, as happened in 2008 when Pumpkin stood in for a sick Pecan; both birds are spared.
Q 28Defending Friendsgiving from its critics, Reason magazine called it 'cultural flourishing, not cultural' what?
decay
'Cultural decay' was the charge Reason rejected; a harsher critic, Malcolm Harris, had called the meal 'a propaganda weapon used by the ruling class' to excuse stagnant wages.
Q 29How long did the Pilgrims' 1621 harvest celebration, the mythologised first Thanksgiving, last?
Three days
Edward Winslow's account says the colonists and about ninety Wampanoag 'entertained and feasted' for three days. Seventeenth-century writers treated it as a harvest celebration; Plymouth's first civil day of thanksgiving came in 1623.
Q 30Which 1987 John Hughes Thanksgiving comedy starred Steve Martin and John Candy?
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Planes, Trains and Automobiles strands Martin's uptight ad man with Candy's chatty shower-curtain-ring salesman after a snowstorm diverts their flight, two days before Thanksgiving.