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New Orleans Trivia
Quiz
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A passing grade is
20.....
If
you score less you may be labeled a Yat impostor.
(The answers are on the
bottom)
1. Who was
'Satchmo'?
A) Louie Prima
B) Al
Hirt
C) Louie Armstrong
D) Professor Longhair
2. Which two breweries used to be in the
French Quarter?
A) Regal and Jax
B) Dixie and
Falstaff
C) Falstaff and
Regal
D) Jax and
Dixie
3. What road was built over the old New
Basin Canal?
A) Canal Boulevard
B) Robert E.
Lee
C) Basin Street
D)
Pontchartrain Expressway
4. What was the
'Zephyr'?
A) A roller coaster
B) The New Year's
baby
C) A Bourbon Street Bar
D) A cocktail
5. Who was the Spirit of Christmas in New
Orleans?
A) St. Nick
B) Papa
Noel
C) Mr. Bingle
D)
King Creole
6. Where is Marie Laveau
buried?
A) Metairie Cemetery
B) St. Louis
#1
C) St. Louis #2
D)
Carrollton Cemetery
7. What was at 1825
Tulane?
A) a brewery
B) a furniture
store
C) a car dealership
D) a restaurant
8. Who hosted the 'Saturday
Hop'?
A) Henry Dupre
B) Pie
Dufour
C) John Pela
D)
Sid Noel
9. What's the highest point of land in New
Orleans?
A) Esplanade Ridge
B) Monkey
Hill
C) French Quarter
D) Metairie Ridge
10. What building is on the uptown side
of St. Louis Cathedral?
A) Presbytere
B) Cabildo
C) Upper
Pontalba
D) Le Petit Theater
11. Where did the 'Pelicans' play
baseball?
A) Tulane and
Broad
B) Airline Hwy and David
Drive
C) Carrollton and
Tulane
D) City
Park
12. Where was the Sugar Bowl game played
before Dome?
A) Tad Gormley Stadium
B) Pan
American Stadium
C) Tiger
Stadium
D) Tulane
Stadium
13. Who always walked around the French
Quarter with her pet duck?
A) Ruthie
B)
Zelda
C) Cat Woman
D)
Blaze Star
14. If you were at the City's old bomb
shelter, where would you be?
A) The CBD
B)
N.O. East
C) Algiers
D) West End
15. What was the shipping channel from
the lake to downtown?
A) 17th St. Canal
B) Harvey
Canal
C) Bayou St. John
D) Industrial Canal
16. What does the term 'Vieux Carre'
mean?
A) Old Square
B) Pleasant
View
C) River View
D)
Old Quarter
17. What is the oldest building still
standing in New Orleans?
A) St. Louis Cathedral
B) Old Ursuline Convent
C) The
Cabildo
D) Lafitte's
Bar
18. Which community's French name means
'small farm?'
A) Metairie
B)
Faubourg Marigny
C) Gentilly
D) Treme
19. What neighborhood was once the
Livaudais Plantation?
A) Treme
B)
Holly Grove
C) The Garden
District
D)
Gentilly
20. What was the "Blue
Book"?
A) New Orleans' Social Register
B) A
directory of Storyville Brothels
C) A
directory of private schools
D) A list of
Civil Codes
21. Who is the oldest Neville
Brother?
A) Art
B) Aaron
C) Charles
D)
Cyril
22. What musician's real name is Mac
Rebennack?
A) Dr. John
B) Professor
Longhair
C) Deacon John
D) Fats Domino
23. What is an alligator
pear?
A) Coconut
B) Avocado
C) Mirliton
D)
Pineapple
24. K&B Drugstores. What did the
K&B stand for?
A) Katz and Besthoff
B) Kole and
Blaine
C) Keller and Bohn
D) Klein and Burgdoff
25. Sidney Noel Rideau played what
character on TV?
A) The Special Man
B) Uncle
Henry
C) The Great McNutt
D) Morgus The Magnificent
26. What Lakefront park offered beauty
pageants and amusement rides?
A) West End
B)
Pontchartrain Beach
C) Old
Beach
D) Spanish
Fort
27. What does musician Clarence Henry
prefer to be called?
A) The Emperor
B)
Frogman
C) Moss Man
D)
Fats Domino
28. What radio show on WWL attracted
truckers and insomniacs? A) Dawnbusters
B) The
Wheelers
C) Hap's Open Road
Show
D) Charlie Douglas & the Road
Gang
29. Miss Linda and her 'Magic Mirror'
appeared on which show?
A) Miss Moffett
B) Romper Room
C) Popeye and
Pals
D) Morgus the
Magnificent
Answers:
1. C. Louie Armstrong
2. A. Regal and
Jax
3. D. Pontchartrain
Expressway
4. A. A roller
coaster
5. C. Mr. Bingle
6. B. St. Louis #1
7. B. a furniture
store
8. C. John Pela
9. B. Monkey Hill
10. B.
Cabildo
11. C. Carrollton and
Tulane
12. D. Tulane Stadium
13. A. Ruthie
14. D. West
End
15. C. Bayou St. John
16. A. Old Square
17. B. Old Ursuline
Convent
18. A. Metairie
19. C. The Garden District
20. B. A
directory of Storyville Brothels
21. A.
Art
22. A. Dr. John
23. B. Avocado
24. A. Katz and
Besthoff
25. D. Morgus The
Magnificent
26. B. Pontchartrain
Beach
27. B. Frogman
28. D. Charlie Douglas & the Road Gang
29. B. Romper
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