Mardi Gras Factoids
What is the Big Easy?
The most common trinkets thrown from a Mardi Gras parade float.
What are bead necklaces?
In Cajun cooking, this is a spicy chicken or seafood soup thickened typically with okra or rice.
What is Gumbo?
This is the color "violet" or "violette" in French.
What is purple?
The mascot for the New Orleans pro football team.
Who are the Saints?
These are the people who brought Mardi Gras to the Americas when they explored the upper Gulf of Mexico in the late 1600s.
Who are the French?
What you'll find hiding in a King Cake.
What is a plastic baby?
A freshwater crustacean that resembles a small lobster and inhabits streams and rivers.
What is a crayfish?
What is Fat Tuesday?
This hurricane ravaged the city of New Orleans.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
The term used for a group/organization that puts on a Mardi Gras parade or ball.
What is a Krewe?
Wear this to disguise your identity at a Mardi Gras ball or while riding on a parade float.
What is a mask?
The colors used to decorate a traditional King Cake.
What are gold, green, and purple?
"Gateau" is how we say this word in English. We eat them with frost for dessert, sometimes with a glass of milk.
What is cake?
This season of American Horror story is based in New Orleans.
What is American Horror Story: Coven (season 3)?
This is the name of the first honorary King of Mardi Gras in North America.
Who is Rex?
What is a crown?
A Mardi Gras drink that contains fruit juices.
What is a hurricane?
What is La Nouvelle Orleans?
The river that topped the levees protecting the city of New Orleans.
What is the Mississippi River?
From Latin, this word means "farewell to meat" and is the season of celebrations leading to Mardi Gras.
What is Carnival?
No longer made of gold, these wooden or aluminum coins are tossed from parade floats.
What are doubloons?
A popular New Orleans spot known for its beignets.
What is Cafe Du Monde?
Laissez le bon temps rouler!
What is let the good times roll?
The oldest and most famous neighborhood in New Orleans.
What is the French Quarter?