Thayer, Mo. –The Thayer Fall Festival happened on Saturday, October 14, 2023, in Thayer, Missouri. While there, the AltonMo.com field team polled locals with different fall and Thanksgiving questions. The five questions asked were 1. What President made Thanksgiving a national holiday? 2. What are the four common colors seen with fall leaves? 3. What type of trees lose their leaves in the fall? 4. What part of the United States is best know for beautiful fall foliage? and 5. What year was the first Thanksgiving? Every person polled got an AltonMo.com goodie bag. Try your knowledge out with these questions!
National Holiday
For what President made Thanksgiving a national holiday, the answers were pretty split.
- Correct answer: 44.4%
- Incorrect answer: 55.6%
Common Colors
Almost everyone knew the answer to the four common fall colors. Sometimes the interviewees said green as one of them.
- Correct answer: 93.3%
- Incorrect answer: 6.7%
Question 3
Hardly anyone knew what type of trees lose their leaves in the fall.
- Correctly answered: 5.9%
- Incorrectly answered: 94.1%
Fall Foliage
Most of the people polled did not know which part of the United States is best know for its beautiful fall foliage. Some people said the Ozarks, while other people said the South.
- Correctly answered: 31.3%
- Incorrectly answered: 68.8%
First Thanksgiving
The hardest question was in what year was the first Thanksgiving. No one got it correct. The closest ones to it were still decades from the answer.
- Correct answer: 0%
- Incorrectly answered: 100%
Answers
If you are wondering what the correct answers to the questions are, here they are.
- Question 1: Abraham Lincoln
- Question 2: Red, orange, yellow, and brown
- Question 3: Deciduous trees
- Question 4: New England
- Question 5: 1621
