Thanksgiving Jeopardy questions and answers: 2 free boards to play
Work-safe and quick: food, the parade, traditions and wordplay. One tile hides a Daily Double.
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These Thanksgiving Jeopardy questions are ready for the week before the holiday: 2 free Jeopardy-style boards with 62 clues and answers, each one checked. Office Thanksgiving is short and work-safe. Friendsgiving is harder, with more history and word origins.
How to host Thanksgiving Jeopardy at work
One host, two or more teams and a shared screen. A board takes about 25 minutes, and the final round about 5, so it fits a lunch break.
- Pick a board. Office Thanksgiving is quick and easy for any team. Friendsgiving is harder, with more history and word origins, for a group that likes a challenge.
- Make 2 to 6 teams. Three to six people each, mixed across departments. Type the team names into the scoreboard under the board.
- Share the board. Open this page on the host's screen and press Full screen, or share the browser tab on your call.
- Teams pick, the host reads. The picking team calls a category and a value. Read the clue, show the response, and tap plus or minus for each team that answered.
- Play the Daily Double and the Final. One tile per board hides the Daily Double, which the finding team answers alone for a wager. When the board is clear, press Final round: every team bets, then answers in 30 seconds.
On a video call or a hybrid team
- Buzz in the chat: the first team name to appear gets to answer.
- Hybrid: put the board on the meeting room screen and share the same tab to the call.
- Teams in different time zones can play the same board in two sessions and compare winners.
All 62 Thanksgiving Jeopardy questions and answers
Every clue on both boards, by category, with the response phrased as a question. The asterisk marks the Daily Double. The Parade and Football clues skip the one everyone knows (the Lions and Cowboys host a game every Thanksgiving) and dig into parade history instead. Playing on paper or slides? Print the host sheet.
Office Thanksgiving board
Work-safe and quick: food, the parade, traditions and wordplay.
Food5 clues
- 100This tart red side, jellied or whole-berry, sits next to the turkey.What is cranberry sauce?
- 200Sweet potato casserole often wears a browned topping of these puffy treats.What are marshmallows?
- 300Dorcas Reilly created this Campbell's side dish in 1955, with crispy fried onions on top.What is green bean casserole?
- 400Food safety officials say a turkey is done when its thickest part reaches this temperature in Fahrenheit.What is 165 degrees?
- 500This turkey brand has answered a Turkey Talk-Line for nervous cooks since 1981.What is Butterball?
The 1621 Harvest5 clues
- 100The 1621 harvest celebration took place in this English colony, in today's Massachusetts.What is Plymouth?
- 200This Native nation, whose homeland took in the land where Plymouth was built, joined the colonists at the 1621 gathering.Who are the Wampanoag?
- 300Edward Winslow wrote that the 1621 celebration went on for this long.What is three days?
- 400*This Wampanoag leader, known by the title Massasoit, came to the gathering with about 90 men.Who is Ousamequin?
- 500Winslow wrote that the Wampanoag men went out and brought back five of these animals.What are deer?
Parade and Football5 clues
- 100The giant character balloons in Macy's parade are filled with this gas.What is helium?
- 200The last float in Macy's parade carries this guest and kicks off the holiday season.Who is Santa Claus?
- 300Macy's parade ends outside the company's flagship store in this Manhattan square.What is Herald Square?
- 400In A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1973), this character pulls the football away just as Charlie Brown kicks.Who is Lucy?
- 500In 1927 this black cartoon cat became the first character balloon in Macy's parade.Who is Felix the Cat?
Across the US5 clues
- 100Towns all over the country hold this Thanksgiving morning fun run, often in costume.What is a turkey trot?
- 200Each November the president spares a bird from the dinner table in this White House ceremony.What is the turkey pardon?
- 300Philadelphia police are credited with first giving the day after Thanksgiving this shopping nickname.What is Black Friday?
- 400In Baltimore, this fermented cabbage dish is a Thanksgiving side.What is sauerkraut?
- 500Since 2002, NBC has aired this canine competition right after the parade.What is the National Dog Show?
Gratitude and Giving5 clues
- 100Gracias means thank you in this language.What is Spanish?
- 200This Hawaiian word means thank you.What is mahalo?
- 300Started in 2012, this global day of giving falls right after Cyber Monday.What is GivingTuesday?
- 400Asante means thank you in this East African language.What is Swahili?
- 500American Express started this shop-local day in 2010, on the weekend after Thanksgiving.What is Small Business Saturday?
Harvest Words5 clues
- 100This horn-shaped basket spilling fruit and vegetables is also called the horn of plenty.What is a cornucopia?
- 200An adult male turkey, also called a gobbler.What is a tom?
- 300A baby turkey, which hatches covered in fluffy down, is called this.What is a poult?
- 400The red flap of skin that hangs under a turkey's chin.What is a wattle?
- 500This dish of corn and beans takes its name from a Narragansett word.What is succotash?
Final: Thanksgiving History. This magazine editor, who also wrote "Mary Had a Little Lamb," wrote to Lincoln in 1863 urging a national Thanksgiving.
Who is Sarah Josepha Hale?
Friendsgiving board
Harder: deeper history, parade lore, regional dishes and word origins.
Food5 clues
- 100Cranberries grow in these wetlands, which farmers flood to harvest the berries.What are bogs?
- 200Across much of the South, people call stuffing by this name, whether or not it bakes inside the bird.What is dressing?
- 300Wild turkeys are native to this continent.What is North America?
- 400Corn, beans and squash, grown together by many Native nations, share this family-style name.What are the Three Sisters?
- 500Marcus Urann, later a founder of Ocean Spray, first sold his cranberry sauce to shoppers in this year.What is 1912?
The 1621 Harvest5 clues
- 100This Native man, who had learned English in Europe, was an interpreter and guide for the Plymouth colonists.Who is Tisquantum (Squanto)?
- 200Plymouth Colony was built where this Wampanoag village stood before an epidemic emptied it.What is Patuxet?
- 300This Plymouth governor sent four men out "fowling" before the 1621 celebration.Who is William Bradford?
- 400Since 1970, Native people and allies have gathered at Plymouth on Thanksgiving Day for this observance.What is the National Day of Mourning?
- 500Winslow's account of the 1621 harvest was printed in this 1622 London booklet.What is Mourt's Relation?
Parade and Football5 clues
- 100Many families play this backyard football game on Thanksgiving morning.What is the Turkey Bowl?
- 200The live animals in Macy's first parade, in 1924, were borrowed from this New York zoo.What is the Central Park Zoo?
- 300The day before the parade, crowds watch the giant balloons get inflated on the streets beside this New York museum.What is the American Museum of Natural History?
- 400*Macy's skipped its parade from 1942 to 1944 and gave the balloon rubber to the effort in this conflict.What is World War II?
- 500Macy's blended two words to name its 2004 invention: a cold-air balloon built onto a self-propelled vehicle.What is a balloonicle?
Across the US5 clues
- 100In 2013 Texas named this nutty dessert its official state pie.What is pecan pie?
- 200Minnesota's official state grain often goes into the stuffing there.What is wild rice?
- 300In Hawaii, kalua pig and kalua turkey are cooked in this underground oven.What is an imu?
- 400Canada celebrates Thanksgiving on the second of this weekday in October.What is Monday?
- 500Since a 1941 law set the fourth Thursday of November, this is the earliest date Thanksgiving can fall.What is November 22?
Gratitude and Giving5 clues
- 100Feeding America is a nationwide network of these, which collect donated groceries for neighbors in need.What are food banks?
- 200Arigato means thank you in this language.What is Japanese?
- 300Obrigado and obrigada mean thank you in this language.What is Portuguese?
- 400Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett started this campaign in 2010, asking billionaires to give away most of their wealth.What is the Giving Pledge?
- 500Kiitos means thank you in this Nordic language.What is Finnish?
Harvest Words5 clues
- 100The full moon nearest the autumn equinox gets this name.What is the harvest moon?
- 200The fleshy flap that hangs over a turkey's beak.What is a snood?
- 300A young male turkey, with a shorter beard than a grown tom.What is a jake?
- 400The cranberry's name comes from an older one that honors this long-legged bird.What is a crane?
- 500Before it meant gathering crops, the Old English word hærfest meant this season.What is autumn?
Final: Thanksgiving History. Critics gave the holiday this nickname after FDR moved it a week earlier in 1939.
What is Franksgiving?
Telling the 1621 story accurately
The 1621 Harvest clues stick to the first-hand account, not later retellings.
- Edward Winslow's account, printed in London in 1622, describes a three-day harvest gathering at Plymouth, built where the Wampanoag village of Patuxet stood before an epidemic.
- The Wampanoag leader Ousamequin, known by the title Massasoit, came with about 90 men, who brought five deer.
- Since 1970, Native people and allies have gathered at Plymouth on Thanksgiving Day for the National Day of Mourning.
Want a quick round with no history at all? Use the Office Thanksgiving board's Food and Harvest Words categories, or switch to the Thanksgiving Family Feud-style board. More ideas are in our Thanksgiving games for work.
Run it with a host
Rather not host it yourself? Our virtual Thanksgiving events run for an hour on your usual video call, with Zoom by default and Teams, Meet or Webex on request. Gratitude Games & Grins mixes a high-energy game night with giving thanks, and switches up the small teams as the games change. Fall Fun & Games runs rounds of autumn-themed challenges. Comfy Cozy Game Shows! plays classic game show formats with a cozy cabin theme, and Fun-Filled Feud is a Family Feud-style show where every team plays at once.
Book about 2 weeks ahead, since the weeks before Thanksgiving are busy. Teams split across time zones can book two sessions. For a hybrid team, put the call on the meeting room screen so the office and remote staff play together.
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