How to Play Thanksgiving Family Trivia

This game can lead to lots of laughs while bringing everyone closer together.

Thanksgiving family trivia is a great way to enjoy old memories and make sure that important family stories get passed down to your children. This is a great game to play when the family is all together, but you can also replay it with just your child as he may enjoy recounting the tales and getting the answers "right" all on his own. This is a good game to play while you are waiting for the turkey to settle and making some room for dessert or as a finish to the evening before people head off to watch football and hit the sales.

Things You'll Need

• List of questions about the family
• Pens

Instructions

1. A few weeks before Thanksgiving, send out an email to your relatives asking each of them to submit two or three questions and answers about the family. They can be funny, serious or heartwarming. For example, you might ask "What did Grandma do when she graduated from high school?" Answer: Traveled the country playing her accordion for a few years. This type of interesting trivia can make older family members more interesting to younger and teenage ones as well as passing on fun family lore.

2. Make a list of the questions. If you think that a question may hurt someone's feelings or offend them, just leave it out. Make sure each person has at least one question included, though.

3. Explain the rules. Gather the family together around a table or in a family living area like the living room or a game room. Explain that you should answer as many questions as you can on your sheet of questions. At the end, everyone will compare answers. Make sure that everyone is clear that while funny answers are OK, mean or hurtful ones are not. Use the rule "when in doubt, leave it out," to make sure that everyone understands how important it is to keep this game fun and lighthearted.

4. Give the family 10 minutes to answer the questions. They do not need to write a lot, just a few notes so that they will remember what to say when it is their turn to answer.

5. Go around the circle answering the questions. Whoever gets the most right wins.

Tips & Warnings

• If you want, you can put the questions on note cards and go around the circle letting each person answer one. However, this can put the younger members of the family at a distinct disadvantage since their odds of getting one right are much lower.