Happy Thanksgiving!!!

This week, let us talk about Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is a day to celebrate the good harvest and other blessings of the past year. Americans generally believe their Thanksgiving is modeled on a 1621 harvest feast shared by the English colonists (i.e., Pilgrims) of Plymouth and the Wampanoag people. The American holiday is particularly rich in legend and symbolism and the traditional fare of the Thanksgiving meal typically including turkey, bread stuffing, potatoes, cranberries and pumpkin pie. Here’s some trivia questions about Thanksgiving in America. Ready to solve?

(source from St. Joseph Indian School)

   

   

1.   Which state is the top turkey-producing state in America? _________________

   

   2.   _____________ % of all cranberries consumed in the U.S. per year are eaten on Thanksgiving.

   

   3.   The ____________________ of the turkey is used in a good luck ritual on Thanksgiving Day.

   

   4.   The 1^st Thanksgiving football game was a college match between what two teams?

___________________  and ________________________ in 1876.

   

   5.   When was the 1^st Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade?

___________________

Want some Thanksgiving jokes?

What do you call a turkey on the day after Thanksgiving? _______________

Why did the farmer have to separate the chicken and turkey?

It’s because he suspected ____________ play.

Answer Keys for Trivia Questions

   

   1.  Minnesota

   2.  20%

   3.  Wishbone

   4.  Yale and Princeton in 1876

   5.  1924

Answer Keys for Jokes

Lucky

Fowl

Weekend Word Puzzle from NPR (Nov, 17, 2019)

Let’s solve the NPR Sunday Word Puzzle! (on the air November 17^th, 2019)  Every answer today is a word or name that ends in the letters -LLO.

Ex. Standard greeting --> HELLO

1. Dessert that jiggles: ____________________

2. Winemaker Ernest or Julio: __________________

3. 1960s-'70s U.S. space program: ________________

4. Brand of scouring pad: ________________

5. Largest city in the Texas Panhandle: _____________

6. Abbott's partner in old comedy: ________________

7. Animal with a leathery shell much seen in Texas and the Southwest: ________________________

8. Italian sculptor of the Renaissance; also one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: ______________________

9. Kind of mushroom: ________________

10. Island in New Brunswick, Canada where F.D.R. had a summer home: _____________________

11. Highly caffeinated, citrus-flavored soft drink: __________________

Answer Keys

1. Jello

2. Gallo

3. Apollo

4. Brillo

5. Amarillo

6. Costello

7. Armadillo

8. Donatello

9. Portabello

10. Campobello

11. Mellow yello

Word Jumble with Muscle Groups

Word Jumble with Names of Muscles!  How many muscle groups in your body can you name? Let us reassemble the following letters to make the names of our muscles. The first letter of each word is Capitalized.

     1.   eloDisidt: ________________

     

     2.   mAnliodsba: _______________

     3.   Oesquilub: _______________

     4.   trsgiamHsn: _______________

     5.   Romdihbso: ____________________

     6.   dcruoAtd: ________________

     

     7.   pscireT: _______________

    

     8.   udairpecQs: _______________

     

     9.   Tsarezpiu: _________________

10. pseiBpc: __________________

Answer Keys

   1.  Deltoids

   2.  Abdominals

   3.  Obliques

   4.  Hamstrings

   5.  Rhomboids

   6.  Adductor

   7.  Triceps

   8.  Quadriceps

   9.  Trapezius

   10.  Biceps