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# How Well Can You Do On Our Annual Thanksgiving-Football-In-Iowa Quiz?
- URL: https://www.investigatemidwest.org/how-well-can-you-do-on-our-annual-thanksgiving-football-in-iowa-quiz/
- Published: 2018-11-20T06:01:46.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-11T02:24:25.000Z
- Description: Each Thanksgiving, we like to bring out this news quiz because the state of Iowa's history of Thanksgiving football goes back quite a few years. How far? Find out.
- Author: IowaWatch
- Tags: iowawatch, News Quizzes, Black Friday games, College football, Grinnell College, History, Iowa Hawkeyes, Iowa State Cyclones, NCAA Football, news quiz, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-06-18 04:56

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Once again, the University of Iowa and University of Nebraska football teams play a Black Friday football game in Iowa City on Friday, Nov. 23\. The next day, the Iowa State University Cyclones close Big 12 play against Kansas State University in Ames.

Each Thanksgiving, we like to bring out this news quiz because the state of Iowa’s history of Thanksgiving football goes back quite a few years. How far? Find out.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/cd/d3/cdd3c059-8898-40b1-bcf7-cb2d3aa89775/content/images/2026/09/Iowa_football_team_in_play_The_University_of_Iowa_1900-1-1.jpg)

University of Iowa Football Game, 1900.

\[quiz key=”1E8UX6wHCi8zOb\_WiotyuxfR0MsAkYXYOs2cODTFmEhc” title=”Iowa’s Long Tradition of Thanksgiving Football” answerstyle=”bullets” Byline=”Lauren Mills Shotwell/IowaWatch”\]