Thanksgiving Quiz 2025 Answers
All my answers are considered final, however utterly incorrect they are later found to be.
- 1. What is the only fruit with seeds on the outside?
Strawberry
2. In 2023, what made up 93 of the 100 most-watched broadcasts on American television?
NFL games
3. Peele collaborator + Yeezus artist + “Wild Ones” rapper = holiday destination
Key & Peele → Key
Kanye West → West
Wild Ones → Flo Rida
→ Key West, Florida
4. “Black: fight back, brown: lie down, white: good night.” What is this advice about?
What to do if attacked by different types of bears.
5. Caribbean island that is the only nation named after a woman
Saint Lucia
6. ~$500bn company named after a Tolkien indestructible crystal ball (“far + watch over”)
Palantir
7. Only planet not named after a god
Earth
8. What role links Pattinson, Kilmer, Keaton & Clooney?
Batman
9. Two-thirds of the world’s longest-lived businesses are in this country; oldest hotel founded 718 AD
Japan
10. Netflix’s most viewed series (265m) and most-viewed original animated film (325m) — which country are they set in?
Squid Game and K-Pop Demon Hunters: South Korea
11. Country whose name comes from “For/through you the Grail.”
Portugal
12. Chain closed on Sundays but with twice the per-store revenue of competitors
Chick-fil-A
13. Which is oldest: Aztec Empire, Oxford University, the Mongol Empire, or the printing press?
Oxford University (c. 1096),
(Mongol Empire (1206), Aztec Empire (1428), Printing Press (c. 1440–1450)).
14. Chinese city beginning with C with 32 million people
Chongqing
15. What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
The letter “M”
16. WWII: highest casualty rates among Allies — Army, Navy or Air Force?
Air Force
(Especially bomber crews; U.S. Army Air Forces’ fatality rate was the highest.)
17. This book (2-word title), published 2018, sold 25m+, #1 Amazon 2021, 5 years NYT list
Atomic Habits
18. What is Psyche 16? (worth $10 quintillion)
A metal-rich asteroid in the asteroid belt.
19. Pacific Island nation with domain .ki, in all 4 hemispheres
Kiribati
20. Director connecting Mount Rushmore / Budapest / Darjeeling / Phoenicians
Wes Anderson
Mount Rushmore → Rushmore,
Budapest → The Grand Budapest Hotel,
Darjeeling → The Darjeeling Limited,
Phoenicia → The Phonencian Scheme
