How many calories are typically in a Thanksgiving meal? A. 3,000-4,000 B. 500-1,000 C. 2,000-3,000
Americans take in 3,000 to 4,500 calories at their Thanksgiving celebrations, according to estimates by the Calorie Control Council.
About how many pumpkin pies are consumed every Thanksgiving? A. 20 Million B. 10 Million C. 50 Million
C. 50 Million (If there are eight slices per pie, that's 400 million slices…but there are only 320 million Americans.)
True or False: It was President Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Proclamation that Thanksgiving was regularly celebrated each year on the last Thursday of November.
True! It wasn't a national holiday until Honest Abe made it one in 1863 and declared that it would fall on the fourth Thursday of November.