Q 01/05

The NFL has played games on Thanksgiving Day since its founding in which year?

A) 1920

B) 1925

C) 1933

D) 1946

Answer · why

A) 1920

1920: the league, founded that September as the American Professional Football Association, staged several games on its first Thanksgiving, 25 Novembe...

Q 02/05

Which team has hosted a game every Thanksgiving since 1934, apart from a wartime gap?

A) Chicago

B) Green Bay

C) New York

D) Detroit

Answer · why

D) Detroit

Detroit has hosted every Thanksgiving since 1934, bar 1939 to 1944; owner George A. Richards moved the franchise to the city from Ohio that year and u...

Q 03/05

Which asset of Lions owner George Richards spread the 1934 Thanksgiving game nationwide?

A) A newspaper chain

B) A department store

C) A railroad

D) A radio station

Answer · why

D) A radio station

A radio station: Richards owned WJR, a powerful NBC affiliate, and persuaded NBC to carry the 1934 Thanksgiving game on a national hookup of some 94 s...

Q 04/05

Whom did the Lions host in their first Thanksgiving game in 1934?

A) Green Bay Packers

B) New York Giants

C) Chicago Cardinals

D) Chicago Bears

Answer · why

D) Chicago Bears

George Halas's team won 19-16 in front of 26,000; the tradition then paused from 1939 to 1944.

Q 05/05

The Lions' Thanksgiving tradition was interrupted from 1939 to 1944 because of what?

A) A players' strike

B) A stadium fire

C) A ban by the league

D) World War II

Answer · why

D) World War II

World War II is the reason usually given: the Lions' holiday game lapsed after 1938, the league's wartime seasons ran with depleted rosters, and the t...