You can't eat me, wrap me or buy me, yet I'm the main course of the fourth Thursday in November. Everyone at the table serves me out loud, and the more of me you share, the more of me there is. What am I?
Hint: The holiday is named after me.
AnswerGratitudeOn Thanksgiving, families take turns saying what they're thankful for, and sharing gratitude spreads it.
We left one country over its church, lived for years in another, then crossed an ocean and landed hundreds of miles north of where we meant to. We wrote our own rules before going ashore, and cartoons still give us hat buckles we probably never wore. Who are we?
Hint: We came over on the Mayflower.
AnswerThe PilgrimsThe Pilgrims were English Separatists who lived in the Netherlands for about 12 years, sailed on the Mayflower aiming for the Hudson River area, landed at Cape Cod instead, signed the Mayflower Compact, and the buckled hats came from later artists.
I'm a horn that nobody plays. I'm woven from wicker, I spill fruit and vegetables across the table, and the ancient Greeks said the first one of me broke off a magical goat. What am I?
Hint: My other name is the horn of plenty.
AnswerA cornucopiaA cornucopia is a horn-shaped basket overflowing with harvest food, from the Greek myth of Amalthea's horn.