Significant Days
This is known to be the official holiday name for Mardi Gras day.
What is Fat Tuesday?
A most common dessert named after royalty that is very popular during Mardi Gras.
What is a king cake?
Mardi Gras organization members decorate this to ride in during their parade.
What is a float?
A popular saying involving clocks and bread is used during mardi gras.
Let the good times roll.
This group, named after western horseback riders, is well known for their political and controversial signs during their parade.
What are the Comic Cowboys?
Mondays are hard, but this is the fun Monday before Fat Tuesday.
What is Lundi Gras?
Cake always goes good with icing. What type of icing tradition ally goes on a king cake?
What is buttercream?
This is worn to hide the faces of the riders during parades.
What is a mask?
Another name for colorful necklaces that are thrown during parades which can also be exchanged for Krispy Kreme donuts at the end of the season.
What are beads?
Known mostly by their first name, this is the traditionally the first city of Mobile organization to ride each year. It is a two part name, with the second name being Cavaliers.
What are the Conde Cavaliers?
Hump day follows Fat Tuesday, but what is the religious holiday's name for this hump day?
What is Ash Wednesday?
Treasures are hidden in all sorts of places so you never know where you'll find them. If someone finds this treasure in a king cake, they have to buy the next one.
What is a baby?
These groups of of musical instruments, usually high schoolers, play music as the parade makes its way through downtown.
What is a marching band?
The three prominent colors that are used during Mardi Gras.
What is green, yellow and purple?
What city in Mobile County is the first to have a parade?
What is Dauphin Island?
Mardi Gras Sunday is reserved for this man who is credited with creating the modernized way of celebrating the holiday.
Who is Joe Cain?
What is a moon pie?
This type of art supplies is used to make the decorations and structure of the float designs.
What is paper mache?
A popular French symbol often seen this time of year and is linked to New Orleans.
What is the fleur de lis?
This organization is named after the offspring of the Roman god of the Sea who also is known to carry a trident.
What is Neptune's Daughters?
This is the century in which Mardi Gras was created.
What are peanuts?
People stand on these during parades to have a better chance of catching something, but they're meant to keep people from stepping in to the street.
What is a barricade?
City of origin for Mardi Gras.
What is Mobile?
What is the Crew of Columbus?