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 Click Here for online turkey trivia. These questions are designed to teach students interesting facts about turkeys in the hope that they will gain respect and understanding for these amazing creatures.  Turkeys drown in the rain.
True or false?
Answer: False!
Turkeys do not drown in the rain. To keep from getting wet, turkeys make their overhead silhouette as small as possible by streamlining themselves and raising their head and neck and keeping their tails down.Turkeys have a hard time keeping a poker face.
True or false?
Answer: True!
You can always tell what a turkey is feeling by the colors on his or her face! Turkeys have the ability to quickly change skin colors as a reflection of their changing moods. Lizards exhibit similar qualities, which demonstrates the ancient evolutionary relationship between birds and reptiles.Domesticated turkeys are unable to fly.
True or false?
Answer: True!
Domesticated turkeys cannot fly because they are fatter than the wild turkey. The domesticated birds are purposely bred to gain an enormous amount of weight in a short period of time. Often these birds grow so fast that they have a hard time walking without injury!Wild turkeys can easily fly long distances.
True or false?
Answer: False!
Wild turkeys can fly for short distances at up to 55 miles per hour. Wild turkeys are also fast on the ground, running at speeds of up to 25 miles per hour.Benjamin Franklin lobbied to make the turkey America's national symbol.
True or false?
Answer: True!
When Benjamin Franklin found out that the bald eagle was chosen over the turkey, he was upset because he believed that the turkey was a more respectable bird and a true
original native of America.Turkeys have very weak sensory organs.
True or false?
Answer: False!
Turkeys have great hearing and an excellent sense of taste. It is difficult to sneak up on turkeys because they have a wide field of vision (about 270 degrees), they can also see in color, and they have excellent visual acuity.The turkey originally came from Turkey.
True or false?
Answer: False!
Popular around the world, the turkey is often named for the country that it is thought to have come from. We call the bird a turkey, as do the British, because it probably came to England from the New World with the help of merchants from Turkey.Abraham Lincoln specified that Thanksgiving would fall on the fourth Thursday of November.
True or false?
Answer: True! What is the long fleshy growth that hangs down over a turkey's beak?
a. Snood
b. Hackle c. Gizzard d. Wattle Answer: a. Snood What are male turkeys called?
a. Jack
b. Tom c. Jerry d. Husband e. Dinner Answer: b. Tom What is a female turkey called?
a. Rooster
b. Cuckoo c. Chick d. Hen Answer: d. Hen What is a baby turkey called?
a. Chick
b. Poult c. Peep d. Calf. Answer: b. Poult |
