Super Bowl
Mardi Gras
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Fun February Facts
Mardi Gras Music
Black History History
100
The two teams in this years Super Bowl...
Who are the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs?
100
The colors for Mardi Gras are Gold, Purple, and ____.
What is Green?
100
This state produces most of America's red roses.
What is California?
100
The number of days in February, 75% of the years.
What is 28?
100
Complete the missing word:
Down in New Orleans
Where the blues was born
It takes a cool cat to blow a horn
On LaSalle and Rampart Street
The combo's there with a mambo beat
The Mardi Gras___, ___, ___
Party Gras ___, ___, ___
Mardi Gras ___, ooh
Down in New Orleans
What is Mambo?
100
The President when Black History Week became Black History Month.
Who is President Gerald Ford?
...to “honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.”
200
Currently in theaters, this movie is based on the true story of four senior women that decide to attend the Super Bowl.
What is "80 for Brady"?
200
The Mardi Gras holiday is always the day before the start of this religious season.
What is lent?
200
This insanely popular website debuted on Valentine's Day in 2005.
What is YouTube?
200
February 2... the day we find out whether winter will last six more weeks.
What is Groundhogs Day?
200
This song is frequently played during carnival season and celebrates the Second Line. The Second Line includes "strutting revelers who fall in behind" the First Line. Who/what is traditionally considered the First Line?
Who was the deceased and the family (at a Jazz Funeral)?
200
This movie celebrated the accomplishments of the Black women scientist and mathematicians of NASA.
What is Hidden Figures?
300
The singers involved in the Super Bowl halftime show wardrobe malfunction.
Who is Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake?
300
These "coins" are tossed from floats during Mardi Gras.
What are doubloons?
300
A Letter to Juliet is traditionally mailed here.
What is Verona, Italy?
300
The February birthstone.
What is the amethyst?
300
This is where they "went on down" to ask for you.
What is the Audubon Zoo?
300
The month of February was chosen for Black History Month in recognition of the birthdays of these two two American abolitionist.
Who are Presient Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass?
400
What starnge event occurred during Super Bowl XLVII in 2013 that caused a 34 minute delay?
What is the Super Bowl Blackout?
400
The day before Ash Wednesday is celebrated as Mardi Gras by many, but some choose to celebrate this holiday that usually has bountiful amounts of breakfast items.
What is Pancake Day?
400
This notorious gangster orchestrated the St. Valentine's Day massacre.
Who is Al Capone?
400
The name of February comes from the Latin word “februum,” which means...
What is purification?
400
Complete the lyric:
Claiborne Street is a-rockin'
From-a one side to the other
The joints are jammin', packin'
And I'm about to smother
All because it's Carnival Ti-i-ime
Whoa, it's Carnival Time
Oh well, it's Carnival Time
And everybody's havin' ____.
What is Fun?
400
The first African-American justice appointed to the United States Supreme Court in 1967.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
500
Name one of the four teams to never play in a Superbowl.
Who are the Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Houston Texans and Jacksonville Jaguars?
500
In Biloxi, the Mardi Gras Royalty includes King D'Iberville and his Queen, who is referred to by this title.
What is Queen Ixolib?
500
This candy.
What is a Sweetheart?
500
The Zodiac Signs for February.
What is Aquarius or Pisces?
500
Two different artists have famous recordings of this Mardi Gras Whistling Classic. This is Fats Dimono's version. The other version is by “Baldhead” Byrd who is better known by this name.
Who is Professor Longhair?
500
The first female African-American astronaut to travel to space in 1992.
Who is Mae Jemison?
600
This team has the most Super Bowl appearances.
Who are the New England Patriots?
600
The origin of Mardi Gras are ancient Roman celebrations of harvest. French colonies in America celebrated this holiday that paid tribute to the "fatted calf" that evolved into Mardi Gras.
What is the Boeuf Gras?
600
In the Victorian era, mean-spirited Valentine's Day cards were called "___ Valentines."
What is Vinegar?
600
The flower used to symbolize February.
What is the primrose?
600
This Mardi Gras classic pays tribute to the Mardi Gras Indians of New Orleans. The song was recorded by this girl group in the 1960s.
Who are the Dixie Cups?
Crawford said, “When I was growing up I lived near the battlefield [Simon Bolivar and Melpomene Streets] where the Indians paraded on Mardi Gras Day. When the tribes ran up on each other they shouted ‘Jock-a-mo fee na na’ and ‘Iko Iko.’” I didn’t have in mind to do a Carnival record—just wanted to record a good song."
600
He is the America given credit for celebratimg/creating the first Black History Week in 1926 as part of his involvement with the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History.
Who is Carter G.Woodson?