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Friendsgiving Trivia Jeopardy

Pies, the Macy's parade, Thanksgiving football and the best TV Thanksgiving episodes on one Friendsgiving board. Copy it free and play with phone buzzers.

6 categories, 30 clues, Final Jeopardy. Everyone buzzes in from their phone.

For game night

Hosting opens the presenter screen with a join code for everyone's phones. Either way the board is a copy of your own. Free, no account needed.

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Every clue on this board

This page is public, so anyone can read the answers — copy the board and swap a few clues before game day.

Dinner Is Served

  1. $200

    Bread cubes, celery, onion and sage go into this side dish, often baked inside the bird.

    What is stuffing?

  2. $400

    Green bean casserole was created in 1955 in the test kitchen of this soup company.

    What is Campbell's?

  3. $600

    Ocean Spray began in 1930 as a cooperative of growers of this tart bog fruit.

    What are cranberries?

  4. $800

    Many cooks make gravy from the turkey's drippings and these, the bird's heart, liver and gizzard.

    What are giblets?

  5. $1,000

    Butterball's Turkey Talk-Line has been answering roasting questions every November since this decade.

    What are the 1980s?

Pie Chart

  1. $200

    This orange squash pie is the one most associated with Thanksgiving.

    What is pumpkin pie?

  2. $400

    Karo corn syrup helped make this nut pie a Southern holiday staple by printing its recipe on the label.

    What is pecan pie?

  3. $600

    The saying goes "as American as" this pie, though its fruit first grew wild in Central Asia.

    What is apple pie?

  4. $800

    Often compared to pumpkin pie, this custard pie made from an orange root vegetable is a soul food classic.

    What is sweet potato pie?

  5. $1,000

    This pie of chopped dried fruit, spices and suet once really did contain meat.

    What is mincemeat pie?

Parade Day

  1. $200

    This jolly man rides the last float of the Macy's parade, officially opening the holiday season.

    Who is Santa Claus?

  2. $400

    The Macy's parade finishes outside the flagship store at Herald Square, on this numbered Manhattan street.

    What is 34th Street?

  3. $600

    In 1927 this cartoon cat became the first giant character balloon in the Macy's parade.

    Who is Felix the Cat?

  4. $800

    This beagle has flown as a Macy's parade balloon more times than any other character.

    Who is Snoopy?

  5. $1,000

    The first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade marched through New York in this year.

    What is 1924?

Football Thursday

  1. $200

    Nicknamed "America's Team," this NFL franchise has hosted a Thanksgiving game almost every year since 1966.

    Who are the Dallas Cowboys?

  2. $400

    This NFL team has played at home on Thanksgiving since 1934, apart from a break during World War II.

    Who are the Detroit Lions?

  3. $600

    This coach turned broadcaster handed out the first Turkey Leg Award on Thanksgiving in 1989.

    Who is John Madden?

  4. $800

    Thanksgiving football began in 1876, when Yale beat this New Jersey college 2-0 in Hoboken.

    What is Princeton?

  5. $1,000

    A disputed 1998 Thanksgiving overtime coin toss, where this Steelers running back insisted he called tails, changed the NFL's coin-toss rules.

    Who is Jerome Bettis?

TV Turkey Days

  1. $200

    On this sitcom, Joey gets his head stuck in a turkey and Rachel serves a trifle with a layer of beef.

    What is Friends?

  2. $400

    In this 1973 TV special, Snoopy and Woodstock serve guests toast, popcorn, pretzels and jelly beans.

    What is A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving?

  3. $600

    A 1978 episode of this sitcom ends with its station manager saying he thought turkeys could fly.

    What is WKRP in Cincinnati?

  4. $800

    On How I Met Your Mother, Marshall's slap bet with Barney led to this Thanksgiving holiday.

    What is Slapsgiving?

  5. $1,000

    In a 2002 episode of this show, a mother and daughter in Stars Hollow try to eat four Thanksgiving dinners in one day.

    What is Gilmore Girls?

Leftovers

  1. $200

    The day after Thanksgiving goes by this name for its doorbuster shopping deals.

    What is Black Friday?

  2. $400

    Each year the US president "pardons" one of these birds in a White House ceremony.

    What is a turkey?

  3. $600

    Retailers named this online shopping day in 2005, and it falls the Monday after Thanksgiving.

    What is Cyber Monday?

  4. $800

    The word Friendsgiving was added in 2020 to the dictionary of this Springfield, Massachusetts, publisher.

    What is Merriam-Webster?

  5. $1,000

    This magazine editor, who wrote "Mary Had a Little Lamb," campaigned for 17 years to make Thanksgiving a national holiday.

    Who is Sarah Josepha Hale?

Final Jeopardy — The Calendar

In 1939 this president moved Thanksgiving a week earlier to lengthen the holiday shopping season, and critics nicknamed it "Franksgiving."

Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?

How to run this board

Friendsgiving is Thanksgiving with the guest list you picked, and it usually has the same lull: dinner is done, nobody is ready to move, and the pie needs another twenty minutes. This board fills that gap. It covers the food on the table, the pies everyone argues about, the Macy's parade, Thanksgiving football, the TV episodes people rewatch every November, and a little of the holiday's actual history.

Put it on the TV and let everyone buzz in from their phone without leaving the couch. Teams by who brought the best dish work well, or split the room by who has hosted a Friendsgiving and who only shows up.

Hosting tip: the TV Turkey Days column is the one people will quote at each other all night, so save it for when the room is loud.

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