Thanksgiving on Screen

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1. 1.Which Friends episode flashes back to past Thanksgivings, turkey-head included?

   • A. "The One with All the Thanksgivings"
   • B. "The One with the Football"
   • C. "The One with the Rumor"
   • D. "The One with Ross's Sandwich"
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   "The One with All the Thanksgivings"

   Did you know? "The One with All the Thanksgivings" aired in 1998.

2. 2.Which NBC drama starred Rob Lowe and Martin Sheen during its Thanksgiving episode "Shibboleth"?

   • A. The West Wing
   • B. The West Wing Reboot
   • C. Mad Men
   • D. Studio 60
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   The West Wing

   Did you know? Aaron Sorkin's White House drama aired the episode in 2000.

3. 3.Which bar sitcom's 1986 episode ends in a food fight at an orphan Thanksgiving?

   • A. Cheers
   • B. WKRP in Cincinnati
   • C. Taxi
   • D. Night Court
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   Cheers

   Did you know? "Thanksgiving Orphans" capped Cheers's sixth season.

4. 4.Which burger-joint sitcom sent its family to a Turkey Day parade gone wrong in "Dawn of the Peck"?

   • A. American Dad
   • B. Family Guy
   • C. Bob's Burgers
   • D. King of the Hill
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   Bob's Burgers

   Did you know? Bob skipped the 2014 parade to cook instead.

5. 5.Which Good Eats host fronts many of Food Network's Thanksgiving specials?

   • A. Guy Fieri
   • B. Emeril Lagasse
   • C. Alton Brown
   • D. Bobby Flay
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   Alton Brown

   Did you know? Alton Brown's Good Eats specials dissect the holiday table.

6. 6.What is the title of the WKRP Thanksgiving episode with the turkey drop stunt?

   • A. "Gobble Gobble"
   • B. "Turkeys Away"
   • C. "As God Is My Witness, I Thought Turkeys Could Fly"
   • D. "Turkey Drop"
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   "Turkeys Away"

   Did you know? The line became the episode's enduring catchphrase.

7. 7.Which 1990 Simpsons episode sends Bart fleeing after ruining Lisa's centerpiece?

   • A. "Bart Gets an F"
   • B. "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment"
   • C. "Bart vs. Thanksgiving"
   • D. "Lisa's Substitute"
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   "Bart vs. Thanksgiving"

   Did you know? "Bart vs. Thanksgiving" aired in season two, 1990.

8. 8.Which 1987 special gathers the Muppets at Fozzie's mother's farmhouse?

   • A. The Muppet Show
   • B. A Muppet Family Thanksgiving
   • C. Muppets Tonight
   • D. The Muppet Christmas Carol
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   A Muppet Family Thanksgiving

   Did you know? The 1987 special crosses Muppet Show and Sesame Street casts.

9. 9.How I Met Your Mother coined which name for its slap-bet Thanksgiving episodes?

   • A. Slapsgiving
   • B. Turgiving
   • C. Slangiving
   • D. Punchgiving
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   Slapsgiving

   Did you know? "Slapsgiving" mixed the slap bet with the holiday.

10. 10.Which sitcom's Thanksgiving episode features a pumpkin-throwing contest called Punkin Chunkin?

    • A. The Middle
    • B. Black-ish
    • C. Modern Family
    • D. Friends
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    Modern Family

    Did you know? The Dunphys entered Punkin Chunkin in 2011.

11. 11.Which 2003 indie film follows April cooking Thanksgiving dinner in a run-down New York apartment?

    • A. Little Miss Sunshine
    • B. Garden State
    • C. Juno
    • D. Pieces of April
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    Pieces of April

    Did you know? Katie Holmes starred in Pieces of April.

12. 12.Which 1988 Peanuts special retells the Mayflower voyage?

    • A. "This Is Your Life, Charlie Brown"
    • B. "It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown"
    • C. "The Mayflower Voyagers"
    • D. "Snoopy's Reunion"
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    "The Mayflower Voyagers"

    Did you know? The Mayflower Voyagers opened This Is America, Charlie Brown.

13. 13.The We Gather Together tune first marked which 1597 Dutch victory?

    • A. The Battle of Nieuwpoort
    • B. The Battle of Waterloo
    • C. The Battle of Blenheim
    • D. The Siege of Leiden
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    The Battle of Nieuwpoort

    Did you know? Nieuwpoort's victory inspired the festive tune.

14. 14.Which cop sitcom's "Two Turkeys" pits rival Thanksgiving dinners?

    • A. Parks and Recreation
    • B. Brooklyn South
    • C. Brooklyn Nine-Nine
    • D. The Office
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    Brooklyn Nine-Nine

    Did you know? The 2017 episode feuded over family stuffing recipes.

15. 15.Which 2009 PBS series opens with the episode "After the Mayflower"?

    • A. The National Parks
    • B. Latino Americans
    • C. We Shall Remain
    • D. The Civil War
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    We Shall Remain

    Did you know? We Shall Remain opened from the Wampanoag perspective.

16. 16.Under what original title was "Jingle Bells" copyrighted in 1857?

    • A. "Thanksgiving Jingle"
    • B. "Open Sleigh Ride"
    • C. "Sleighing Song"
    • D. "One Horse Open Sleigh"
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    "One Horse Open Sleigh"

    Did you know? Pierpont's 1857 copyright read One Horse Open Sleigh.

17. 17.Which fact-busting comedy series aired "Adam Ruins Thanksgiving" in 2016?

    • A. The Daily Show
    • B. Last Week Tonight
    • C. Adam Ruins Everything
    • D. Full Frontal
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    Adam Ruins Everything

    Did you know? Adam Conover's holiday episode aired on truTV.

18. 18.Which 2021 A24 drama, adapted from Stephen Karam's play, follows a family's Thanksgiving gathering in Manhattan?

    • A. Hereditary
    • B. Waves
    • C. The Humans
    • D. Minari
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    The Humans

    Did you know? The Humans confined its feast to a Chinatown duplex.

19. 19.The harvest hymn We Plough the Fields and Scatter was written in German by which 18th-century poet?

    • A. Friedrich Schiller
    • B. Johann Goethe
    • C. Heinrich Heine
    • D. Matthias Claudius
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    Matthias Claudius

    Did you know? Claudius's 1782 poem became the harvest hymn.

20. 20.Which South Park episode brings a hungry Ethiopian boy to America at Thanksgiving?

    • A. "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo"
    • B. "Pinkeye"
    • C. "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe"
    • D. "Starvin' Marvin"
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    "Starvin' Marvin"

    Did you know? "Starvin' Marvin" aired around Thanksgiving 1997.

21. 21.Which 1991 John Hughes road comedy sends Ed O'Neill home for Thanksgiving?

    • A. Career Opportunities
    • B. Planes, Trains and Automobiles
    • C. Uncle Buck
    • D. Dutch
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    Dutch

    Did you know? Dutch followed a rough ride home for the holiday.

22. 22.Which pianist's 1982 album December opens with the piece Thanksgiving?

    • A. George Winston
    • B. Keith Jarrett
    • C. Ludovico Einaudi
    • D. Chick Corea
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    George Winston

    Did you know? Winston's Thanksgiving opens his seasonal classic.

23. 23.Which 2000 film intercuts four families' Thanksgivings across Los Angeles?

    • A. Food of Love
    • B. Tortilla Soup
    • C. What's Cooking?
    • D. Soul Food
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    What's Cooking?

    Did you know? Gurinder Chadha's ensemble film braided four holiday tables.

24. 24.Which 1968 Broadway musical features the Thanksgiving number Turkey Lurkey Time?

    • A. Oklahoma!
    • B. Hair
    • C. Promises, Promises
    • D. Cabaret
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    Promises, Promises

    Did you know? Bacharach and David's show debuted the dance number.

25. 25.Which harvest hymn's alternate title is "Harvest Home"?

    • A. Now Thank We All Our God
    • B. Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
    • C. Amazing Grace
    • D. We Gather Together
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    Come, Ye Thankful People, Come

    Did you know? "Harvest Home" is the hymn's English subtitle.

26. 26.Who wrote the hymn text For the Beauty of the Earth in 1864?

    • A. John Keble
    • B. Cecil Frances Alexander
    • C. Folliott S. Pierpoint
    • D. Horatius Bonar
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    Folliott S. Pierpoint

    Did you know? Pierpoint's gratitude hymn dates to 1864.

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