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What is deep frying?
Although most turkeys destined for the Thanksgiving table are roasted in an oven, this immersive cooking method has gained popularity over the past few years.
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What is a unicycle?
This pedal-driven vehicle that touches the ground with only one wheel is commonly used during circus acts and street performers.
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What is a tug boat?
This type of boat is powerful for its size and typically used to move vessels that either should not or cannot move on their own.
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Who is David Bowie?
This musician inhabited many different personas over his nearly fifty year career, including the Thin White Duke for his tour for Young Americans.
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What is a turtle sundae?
One popular ice cream sundae’s name comes from its similarity to this candy, which is also made with pecans, caramel, and chocolate.
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What are North and South America?
Turkeys are native to these two continents.
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What is unique?
This a word that means one of a kind, unlike anything else, existing as the only one, and solitary in characteristics.
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What is the back?
If something is located aft, it is in this part of the ship.
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What is Doo Wop?
This was a popular form of 1950’s music with an emphasis on multi-part vocal harmonies and meaningless backing lyrics ( from which the genre later gained its name).
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What is Derby Pie?
Although the recipe for this chocolate and walnut pie is fiercely guarded and its trademarked name often involved in lawsuits, similar pies like the May Day Pie persist.
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What is three?
The term “turkey” in the context of bowling means that the player has bowled this many consecutive strikes.
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What is upcycling?
A hobby in which a person reuses or transforms by-products, waste materials, and useless or unwanted products into something new, while keeping the environment in mind.
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What is third class?
Although most other ships at the time provided only open berth sleeping arrangements for this class of accommodation, the Titanic had private cabins that could fit up to 10 people.
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Who is Jimi Hendrix?
Stationed at Fort Campbell, this “Experienced” guitar prodigy enlisted in the Army as an alternative to spending time in prison for riding in stolen cars.
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What is a Baby Ruth candy bar?
Allegedly named after President Grover Cleveland’s daughter, this American candy bar is made of peanuts, caramel, and chocolate flavored nougat covered in compound chocolate.
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What is a snood?
This is the term for the flap of skin that hangs over a turkey's beak.
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What is the umbilical cord?
This two-word term has come to be associated with other items with similar functions, such as the hose connecting astronauts to spacecraft during spacewalks.
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What is a fluyt?
The Mayflower was this type of Dutch cargo ship.
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What is Johnny B. Goode?
Said to be one of the most recognizable songs of all time, this Chuck Berry hit was covered by Marty McFly in Back to the Future during the “Enchantment Under the Sea” dance.
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What is the Kit Kat candy bar?
This chocolate and wafer candy bar is sold in limited flavors in the United States, but in Japan, Nestle has introduced over 200 flavors since 2000 including ginger ale and soy sauce.
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What is true?
True or False: Turkeys can swim, run up to 25 miles an hour and fly at 55 miles an hour for up to one mile.
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What is unilateral?
This word often refers to political situations and means undertaken or done by or on behalf of one side, party, or faction only; not mutual.
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What is the Costa Concordia?
One of the largest ships to ever be abandoned, this cruise ship deviated from its planned course, struck a rock formation, capsized, and sank near a Tuscan island in 2012.
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Who is Patti Smith?
This influential punk rock singer-songwriter was closely associated with artist Robert Mapplethorpe and, later, with R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe.
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What is Nik-L-Nip?
Marketed by the Tootsie Roll Industries, this candy contains fruit flavored juices in the center of bottle shaped wax. Once you bite the top of the wax and drink the juice, you can then chew on the wax
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