History
Ther term "Mardi Gras" means this.
What is Fat Tuesday?
The colors of Fat Tuesday.
What are Purple, Green, and Gold?
The traditional Marti Gras treat.
What is King Cake?
Lent officially begins.
What is Ash Wednesday?
State that held the first Mardi Gras Parade.
What is Alabama?
Florence, Italy in 1294.
Where the 1st Fat Tuesday celebrations were?
To prevent class divisions.
Why people wear masks on Fat Tuesday?
This item is supposed to bring good luck to the person who finds it for the next year once found.
What is the plastic baby?
Number of days in Lent.
What is 40?
This is where most Mardi Gras activities happen in New Orleans.
What is Bourbon Street?
The country that brought Fat Tuesday to the US.
The most popular form of Entertainment on Fat Tuesday?
What are parades?
500,000
What is the number of King Cakes sold each year?
Day of the week not counted in the season of Lent.
The most common thing throw from the floats during the parade.
What are beads?
To consume foods Catholics fast of during lent.
What is the historical reason for feasting on Fat Tuesday?
47
Why many days before Easter is Fat Tuesday?
This Authentic New Orleans stew made with a dark roux, vegetables, chicken, sausage, and shrimp, and served over rice.
What is Gumbo?
The liturgical color of the Lenten season.
What is Purple?
The devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005, caused a few people to question.
What is the future of the city's Mardi Gras celebrations?
1582
What is the first year Fat Tuesday was on the Church Calendar?
A tradition that is a law in New Orleans during Mardi Gras.
What is painting your face or wearing a mask?
Preparation of crawfish in New Orleans.
What is Boil?
The biblical event Lent represents.
What is Jesus' 40 days of temptation in the desert?
Mardi Gras celebrating increased the spread of this in 2020.
What is Covid 19?