Q 01/05

Which Patuxet man taught the Plymouth colonists to catch eel and grow corn?

A) Squanto

B) Samoset

C) Metacomet

D) Canonicus

Answer · why

A) Squanto

Squanto (Tisquantum), a Patuxet who learned English after being kidnapped and sold in Spain in 1614, showed the colonists how to plant corn with fish ...

Q 02/05

How many days did the 1621 harvest celebration at Plymouth famously last?

A) One

B) Three

C) Seven

D) Fourteen

Answer · why

B) Three

Three days: Edward Winslow's 1621 letter says the colonists 'entertained and feasted' about ninety Native men for three days, and that the guests went...

Q 03/05

Which 19th-century editor tirelessly campaigned for Thanksgiving to become a national holiday?

A) Harriet Beecher Stowe

B) Clara Barton

C) Sarah Josepha Hale

D) Susan B. Anthony

Answer · why

C) Sarah Josepha Hale

Sarah Josepha Hale, the Godey's Lady's Book editor who also wrote 'Mary Had a Little Lamb', lobbied governors and presidents for 17 years before her l...

Q 04/05

Which president began the unbroken yearly run of national Thanksgivings by proclaiming one for the last Thursday of November?

A) Andrew Jackson

B) Abraham Lincoln

C) Theodore Roosevelt

D) Woodrow Wilson

Answer · why

B) Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln proclaimed it on October 3, 1863, asking Americans in the middle of the Civil War to remember its widows and orphans, and presidents h...

Q 05/05

In which Dutch city did the Pilgrims live before sailing for America?

A) Leiden

B) Rotterdam

C) Utrecht

D) Groningen

Answer · why

A) Leiden

Leiden: the congregation settled there in 1609 and stayed about eleven years, then left partly because their children were growing up more Dutch than ...