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Thanksgiving Games: Easy As Pie, Part I

Since yesterday's post didn't happen, we thought we'd add a little extra oomph to this one with some fun and games. Maybe it will be a useful distraction for a few readers who need a respite from drunken Uncle Bob and his rants about how these immigrants are ruining America.

We've already done a presidents + Thanksgiving trivia quiz, and there are only so many reasonable questions available for something like that, so we decided to go in a different direction. We have put together ten sets of four pictures, like this:

An apple pie, a golden
idol, a cartoon of a man sleeping with a dream cloud and Sen. Tommy Tuberville

The first picture, in each set, is something that is associated with Thanksgiving. As a set, the four pictures point at a theme or commonality of some sort. For example, shown here are a pie, an idol, a dream and an idiot. All of those can be paired with the word "American" (i.e., "American Pie," American idol, the American Dream, and "American Idiot").

Note that there are many different kinds of themes here, that the theme may rely on a different meaning of the word indicated, and that some pictures may suggest multiple words, some of which are not needed. For example if we had done one with a picture of Plymouth Rock, we might also have given pictures of Gerald Ford, of Chevy Chase, and of a mustang horse, resulting in a theme of "cars" (i.e., Plymouth, Ford, Chevy, Mustang).

And with that out of the way, here are the 10 sets:

Number 1:

A dish with a casserole
and spoon, an old 8-track tape, a constellation that looks like a 'W' and a young Black boxer

Number 2:

A pilgrim
waving, Phileas Fogg, an astronaut and a bust of Marco Polo

Number 3:

A pumpkin,
a computer mouse, the singer Prince and a pair of bathroom slippers

Number 4:

A turkey,
a map of a U.S. state, Michael Jordan and some fancy dishes

Number 5:

Some corn,
the singer James Brown, some cans of soda, and a blank square except for #FFFFFFF

Number 6:

Some gravy in
a boat, a cherry being placed on a cupcake, a cake being frosted, and a man floating with a gold-colored
parachute

Number 7:

Two football
players, Darth Vader, a man on a motorcycle, a construction worker

Number 8:

Some cranberries,
the singer Enya, a Pogues album, and the members of the band U2

Number 9:

A Native American,
a man on a horse, a police officer and a construction worker

Number 10:

A sliced ham,
Abraham Lincoln, a calendar with December 24 circled, and a Philadelphia 76ers basketball player wearing #2

If you'd like to take your best shot, click here to submit your responses (please get them in by 10:00 PT tonight). We'll have the answers, and the top 20 finishers, tomorrow. Some of them are tricky, so we're not expecting many perfect scores. (Z)



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