Send My Love to Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge
True or False: Creole and Cajun are the same thing
False: Cajuns are a subset of Creoles, and both titles refer to groups of people, styles of cooking, and other pieces of culture
This song talks about "people on the river" & was recorded & popularized by Tina Turner *play snippet*
Proud Mary
What is a Bayou?
Acceptable answers: marshy land, slow-moving body of water, salt & freshwater land
This 2008 Disney movie features a new princess from New Orleans & is a take on a classic fairy tale (hint: ribbit)
The Princess and the Frog
French Lesson time! What does Baton Rouge mean? (Think about each word separately)
Red stick - and it really is named after a red stick! 300 years ago, there was a blood-stained cypress stick on top of a Mississippi river bluff that marked the division between native peoples' hunting grounds and colonizers' land.
True or false: Creole people have their own language, which goes by the same name.
True. Creole has its roots in French, English and African dialects, and it is a dying language. Today only a few thousand people speak it.
"Dance in the kitchen 'til the morning light: ______ _____ _____" This song was released in 1977. *play snippet*
Louisiana Saturday Night by Bob McDill
False. They are home to crab traps, fishing lines, shallow waters and a whole host of wildlife, making swimming a bad idea. But they are great for boating and fishing!
Anne Rice, who hails from New Orleans, wrote a widely popular book series about these immortal beings.
Vampires. Her book Interview with a Vampire was also turned into a 1999 film starring Tom Cruise, parts of which were shot in New Orleans.
True or False: Baton Rouge played a key part in the American Revolution, way back in 1776
True. The battle of Baton Rouge was the only Revolutionary War battle fought outside the 13 colonies
Name a Cajun dish (hint: what comes to mind when you think of Louisiana food?)
Acceptable answers: gumbo, jambalaya, poboy sandwiches
This massive genre of music started in New Orleans with its roots in blues and ragtime. You often hear brass instruments and bass used in it.
Jazz music
True or false: "Bayou" comes from a Choctaw word
True. Bayou is derived from "bayuk" meaning "little stream"
This 1989 movie about women in the South stars Sally Field, Dolly Parton and Julia Roberts, and was filmed in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Steel Magnolias
True or False: Louisiana is home to the tallest state capitol building in the US
True. The state capitol building in Baton Rouge is 34 stories tall - by contrast, North Dakota's is 21 stories.
True or False: All Creoles are Cajun
False - Cajun is a subset of Creole, so all Cajun folks are Creole, but not the other way around.
This band, popular in the 60s and 70s and started by brothers Tom and John Fogerty, weren't "born on the bayou" at all - they were actually from California.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
True or false: Wetlands are disappearing
True. Every 33 minutes, a half acre of bayou is lost due to erosion. Many wildlife conservation groups are working to combat this.
This is a classic film about Blanche DuBois, a faded southern belle visiting her sister Stella in New Orleans. Stella's husband is played by Marlon Brando.
A Streetcar Named Desire
False. But it is home to something much cooler - The Indian Mounds, two indigenous man-made hills that are OLDER THAN THE PYRAMIDS! (Also, the old state capitol in Baton Rouge is said to be haunted, it's just not on LSU grounds)
True or False: Creole people are descended from French settlers
False: Actually, Creole people are descended from Canadians exiled in the southern part of Lousiana
This style of music was created by African-Americans of Creole heritage and often features someone playing a washboard and accordion (hint: starts with the last letter of the alphabet)
Zydeco
Name something you could hunt or trap on the bayou
Acceptable answers: alligators, crabs, catfish
This Oscar-winning 2013 film tells the true story of Solomon Northup, a free Black man who was abducted and sold into slavery. It was filmed in Louisiana.
12 Years A Slave