Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving, and welcome to another once-in-a-blue-moon Trivia Road quiz, this one vaguely inspired by today's holiday. Try it on for size when the football game gets boring...

(Free trivia: the painting pictured is Freedom From Want by Norman Rockwell)

TURKEY
1. Mentioned in the Bible, what peak is Turkey's highest point?
2. Turkey is bordered by which three seas?
3. Which Turkish city was known as Byzantium until the 4th century A.D.?
4. The Turkish city of Bursa was the original capital city of what empire?
5. Who are these people?

DRESSING
1. What part of men's formal wear gets its name from the Hindi word for waistband?
2. What style of hat gets its name from an 1882 play by Victorien Sardou?
3. According to legend, what clothing item plunged in popularity thanks to a Clark Gable scene in 1934's It Happened One Night?
4. White wedding dresses didn't become popular until who wore one for her wedding in 1840?
5. Which fashion designer has trademarked the shade of red used on the soles of his highly sought-after high-heel shoes?

PI
1. What day is celebrated as Pi Day?
2. What is pi's position in the Greek alphabet? (alpha is first, beta is second...)
3. What shape's volume is calculated with the formula 4/3 π r³?
4. Who is credited with calculating the first accurate (3.14) value of pi?
5. Does the sequence 123456 occur anywhere in the first million decimal places of pi?

FOOTBALL

1. What do the 7th, 9th and 10th QBs on the NFL's all-time-passing yardage list have in common?

2. What many-times injured QB is the oldest Heisman Trophy winner currently on an NFL roster?

3. What team has had nine (the most) different head coaches, including Hue Jackson, since the Patriots hired Bill Belichick in 2000?

4. What's the only NFL team that hasn't qualified for the playoffs yet this century?

5. What's the only company with naming rights to more than one NFL stadium?

ALSO ON THE THANKSGIVING TABLE

1. What dance move mentioned in "Do You Love Me?" by the Contours was made famous by James Brown?

2. What Irish band hit #1 in 1994 with the protest song "Zombie"?

3. Green Giant recently set a world record by creating a 637-pound version of what Thanksgiving standard?

4. First published 100 years ago, the recipe for what dish was influenced by the Cracker Jack company?

5. What piece of a table setting is also known as a sauciere?

TURKEY
1. Mount Ararat
2. Aegean, Black and Mediterranean
3. Istanbul. Byzantium became Constantinople around 330 AD. Constantinople in turn became Istanbul in the 15th century.
4. Ottoman
5. If the link isn't broken, they're whirling dervishes

DRESSING
1. cummerbund
2. fedora. In the title role of Princess Fedora in the play Fedora, actress Sarah Bernhardt wore a hat that became a popular women's style around 1882. Prince Edward made the fedora popular with men in the 1920's.
3. men's undershirts. Gable took off his shirt in one scene, revealing -gasp- nothing underneath! According to legend, sales of undershirts plunged afterward; Snopes, however, says this has actually never been proven
4. Queen Victoria
5. Christian Louboutin

PI
1. March 14th
2. Pi is the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet
3. a sphere
4. Archimedes
5. No (see University of Exeter webpage)

FOOTBALL
1. Those QBs, Eli Manning, Philip Rivers and Ben Roethlisberger, were all selected in the first round of the 2004 draft.
2. I wrote this to bait St. Louis people into answering Sam Bradford, but the answer is 2002 Heisman winner Carson Palmer of the Cardinals
3. I would have guessed Cleveland even without the Hue Jackson misdirect, but the answer is the Oakland Raiders. (Jackson was head coach there in 2007)
4. The Buffalo Bills, whose last playoff appearance was in 1999, where they succumbed to the Titans' "Music City Miracle"
5. Mercedes-Benz (Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans; Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta)

ALSO ON THE THANKSGIVING TABLE
1. mashed potato
2. Cranberries
3. green bean casserole
4. Sweet potatoes with marshmallow topping. The Cracker Jack company also made marshmallows at the time. The recipe was a way to boost marshmallow sales.
5. gravy boat