Cajun Fun Facts
This is where Cajun people reside today.
What is Louisiana, especially the southern part?
Birds use this specific part of their body to aid in flying.
What is wings or feathers?
This favorite Halloween decor is actually a fruit.
What is a pumpkin?
What does NBA stand for?
What is National Basketball League?
The nares are another name for which part of your nose that leads into your nasal passages.
What are nostrils?
This is the language spoken by most older Cajun folks.
What is Cajun French?
These mammals are the only ones that have evolved to fly and you may see them at night.
What are bats?
This slightly radioactive fruit is actually scientifically classified as a berry.
What is a banana?
This is the standard height that the hoop sits for NBA games.
What is ten feet?
The human retina contains receptor cells of two different types: rods and these tapered shapes.
What are cones?
This is one of the most prominent instruments in Cajun music.
What is the accordion or the fiddle?
This flying critter may be large, but is surprisingly quiet when stalking its prey and has incredible eyesight.
What is an owl?
This popular condiment found on burgers, hot dogs, and even your kid's chicken nuggets was actually originally sold as medicine used for indigestion and diarrhea.
What is ketchup?
This is the length in minutes of a standard NBA game.
What is 48 minutes?
This fibrous tissue connects the calf muscles to the calcaneus. It is named after the Greek hero who killed Hector outside of Troy.
What is the Achilles Tendon?
Mardi Gras is held the day before this liturgical event in the Catholic Church.
What is Ash Wednesday?
This is one of the fastest flying animals, reaching incredible speeds. Yes, it is a bird, but which one?
What is the peregrine falcon?
Carrots were originally this color, rather than their current bright orange.
What is purple?
This championship team was nicknamed the "Bad Boys."
What are the Detroit Pistons?
These tiny structures are, at between five and ten micrometers in diameter, the smallest blood vessels in the human body
What are capillaries?
This is where the term "fais do-do" comes from.
What is parents telling their children to go to sleep in the rafters of the dance halls so that they could continue dancing?
These creatures use their two sets of wings to enable then to fly forward, backward, and side to side. They are lethal to their prey with a hunt success rate of almost 95%. They have no feathers.
What is a dragonfly?
Pule cheese is made up of this animal's milk and can cost up to 1,000 dollars a pound.
What is a donkey?
This player has the most career scoring titles in NBA history. Bonus 20 points if you can name how many titles as well.
What is Michael Jordan with 10?
The least understood of the five types of taste receptors on the human tongue are those for nucleotides and glutamates that are described by this Japanese term, which translates to something like "savoriness."