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Thanksgiving Myths Quiz
By Naina Mistry for the Discovery Channel

Thanksgiving is stuffed full of myths. Even the origins of the holiday are based on story and legend. Can you separate reality from the turkeys?
1
Thanksgiving Day was established as an annual national holiday by the Founding Fathers.
2
Eating turkey makes you sleepy.
3
The day after Thanksgiving is the biggest, most profitable shopping day of the year in the United States.
4
Benjamin Franklin proposed the turkey as the national bird of the United States.
5
Sweet potatoes and yams are the same thing.
6
Every year, the president of the United States pardons a live turkey before Thanksgiving.
7
The Pilgrims' "first Thanksgiving" in 1621 was a solemn, family-oriented religious observance.
8
The observance of an annual Thanksgiving holiday is the result of a campaign by a female magazine editor.
9
The food we consume for Thanksgiving today is very similar to what the Pilgrims ate at the first Thanksgiving.
10
The Pilgrims dressed only in black-and-white clothing, with large buckles on their shoes and hats.
11
Members of the native Wampanoag tribe taught the Pilgrims how to grow corn.
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