Thanksgiving Trivia Answers - finally!

[Florence Manier <fmanier@SISD.K12.AK.US>]

Thanksgiving Trivia: I am so sorry that I am posting this AFTER Thanksgiving. I 
have tons of reasons why so late, but here are the answers to those questions - 
finally.

      IN STORY AND SONG
1. In Jack Prelutsky’s poem, how and why did the turkey leave the oven?
2. Name a famous pumpkin from a fairy tale.
3. What does the wind do as they travel “over the river and through the woods?”
4. In what book by Lorna Balian did Mrs. Gumm fatten a turkey for Thanksgiving?
5. What did Mrs. Gumm sharpen, hone and polish?
6. In what book would you find a recipe for Grandmother’s famous cranberry bread?
7. Name a story about a pumkin-headed ghost.
8. In Steven Kroll’s book, One Tough Turkey, who was Solomon?
9. In this story, what did the Pilgrims eat at the first Thanksgiving?
10. According to an Indian legend, what sprang from a spirit womans’ footprints?
11. Which author asked “Who’s that stepping on Plymouth Rock?”
12 Who wrote the poem, “The Courtship of Miles Standish?”
13. According to the nursery rhyme, in what unusual place did Peter keep his wife?

ANSWERS:
1. In Jack Prelutsky’s poem,The Turkey Shot Out of the Oven, the turkey left the 
oven because it was stuffed with unpopped popcorn, which made it shoot out of the 
oven.
2. Little Jack Pumpkin Face is the name of  a famous pumkin.
Source:A Child’s Garden of Verses
3. The wind bites the nose and stings the toes.
Source: Songs For All Seasons
4.Sometimes It’s Turkey and Sometimes It’s Feathers
5. Mrs. Gumm sharpened, honed and polished a knife to chop the turkey’s head off.
6. The title of the book in which you find a recipe for Grandmother’s famous 
cranberry bread is, A Cranberry Thanksgiving, by Wende and Harry Devlin.
7. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, is the name of a story of a pumkin headed ghost, 
written by Washington Irving.
8. In Steven Kroll’s book, Solomon was the “One Tough Turkey”.
9. The pilgrims ate
Fish: cod, bass, herring, shad blue fish and lots of eel
Seafood: clams, lobsters, muscles and oysters
Birds: wild turkey, goose, duck, swans, cranes, partridge and other water foul
Vegetables: peas, squash, and beans.
Nuts: wallnuts, chestnuts, hickory nuts, acorns and ground nuts
source: Internet
10. The three sisters, corn, squash and beans were what sprang from the Spirit 
Woman’s footprints.
Source: internet
11. Jean Fritz is the author of the book, Who’s That Stepping On Plymouth Rock?”
12. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
13. Peter kept his wife in a pumpkin shell.
source: The Real Mother Goose


Florence Manier, Librarian
P.O. Box 5
Thorne Bay Alaska 99919
907-828-3921
fmanier@sisd.k12.ak.us

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