Q 01/05

Turkey is often blamed, without good evidence, for causing which after-dinner feeling?

A) Sleepiness

B) Hiccups

C) Thirst

D) Headaches

Answer · why

A) Sleepiness

Sleepiness gets pinned on tryptophan in the turkey, but the bird holds no more of it than other poultry, and there is no evidence that it makes diners...

Q 02/05

Canada's Thanksgiving holiday always falls on which day of the week?

A) Monday

B) Friday

C) Saturday

D) Sunday

Answer · why

A) Monday

Monday has been the fixed day since 1957; in the 1920s the holiday shared a Monday with Armistice Day, until the two were split in 1931 so that vetera...

Q 03/05

Where did most of the Pilgrims live during their first winter in America?

A) On their ship

B) In log cabins

C) In caves

D) In Native villages

Answer · why

A) On their ship

On their ship: the colonists stayed aboard through the winter, and sickness spread fast in the cold, crowded quarters before the survivors moved ashor...

Q 04/05

Pictures of the Pilgrims often show which item on their hats that they never really wore?

A) Buckles

B) Feathers

C) Ribbons

D) Badges

Answer · why

A) Buckles

Buckles were added by 19th-century artists; the Pilgrims' own estate records list red caps, violet coats and green gowns, not just the black and white...

Q 05/05

A baby boy born at sea during the Pilgrims' voyage to America was given which fitting name?

A) Neptune

B) Oceanus

C) Tempest

D) Mariner

Answer · why

B) Oceanus

Oceanus Hopkins was born in mid-Atlantic; his father Stephen was the one passenger who had crossed before, and had been shipwrecked on Bermuda on the ...