Food
This cake is eaten on Mardi Gras.
What is Kings Cake?
Another name for Mardi Gras.
What is Fat Tuesday?
Mardi Gras is a traditional celebration of this religion.
What is Christianity/Catholicism?
This is the day Lent begins.
What is Ash Wednesday?
The toy found in a kings cake.
What is a plastic baby?
The term for reducing one's food intake by having one regular meal and two small snacks.
What is fasting?
Daily Double!
What are purple, green and gold?
This U.S. city is famous for its Mardi Gras celebration.
What is New Orleans?
The Sunday before Easter is also called this.
What is Palm Sunday?
This word is never said or sung during the Lenten season.
What is Alleluia?
The two days of fasting during Lent.
What are Ash Wednesday and Good Friday?
King cake is circular or braided to resemble this.
What is a crown?
A popular accessory worn during Mardi Gras.
What is/are masks/hats/festive beads?
Daily Double!
What are the palms from the previous year's Palm Sunday?
The feast days of these two popular Saints occur during Lent, two days apart from each other.
Who are St. Patrick (March 17) and St. Joseph (March 19)?
A popular seafood eaten on Mardi Gras.
What is shrimp?
Tradition dictates that finding the prize in a King Cake symbolizes luck and prosperity, and the finder takes on this title for the evening.
What is King or Queen?
This word comes from the Latin word for three and includes the three holiest days of the Church calendar that starts on Holy Thursday and ends on Holy Saturday.
What is Triduum?
This is the name of the Fourth Sunday of Lent, on which the priest wears the color rose.
What is Laetare Sunday?
This food was traditionally eaten on Mardi Gras as a way to use up rich foods such as eggs, milk, and sugar.
What are pancakes?
The term for not eating meat.
What is abstinence?
Where did Mardi Gras start being celebrated?
Where is Rome?
This is the meaning of the Old English word lencten. (Lent is a shortened form of the word lencten.)
What is spring?
The three pillars of Lent.
What are prayer, fasting, and almsgiving?
In 2013, Mardi Gras and the Super Bowl overlapped. This nickname was given to Mardi Gras that year.
What is Super Gras?