New Orleans - Quiz
New Orleans
  • 1. Which river runs along New Orleans?
A) Pearl River
B) Red River
C) Mississippi River
D) Atchafalaya River
  • 2. What was the population of New Orleans in the 2020 census?
A) 300,000
B) 383,997
C) 450,000
D) 500,000
  • 3. What is the name of the parish that is coextensive with the city of New Orleans?
A) Jefferson Parish
B) St. Bernard Parish
C) Plaquemines Parish
D) Orleans Parish
  • 4. Which famous annual festival is New Orleans most noted for?
A) Voodoo Experience
B) French Quarter Festival
C) Jazz Fest
D) Mardi Gras
  • 5. What is the historic heart of the city known for its architecture?
A) Marigny
B) French Quarter
C) Warehouse District
D) Garden District
  • 6. In what year was New Orleans founded by French colonists?
A) 1718
B) 1763
C) 1803
D) 1699
  • 7. When did New Orleans become part of the United States?
A) 1803
B) 1718
C) 1812
D) 1783
  • 8. Which hurricane severely affected the city in 2005?
A) Hurricane Katrina
B) Hurricane Rita
C) Hurricane Gustav
D) Hurricane Ida
  • 9. What percentage of the city was flooded following Hurricane Katrina?
A) More than 80%
B) More than 50%
C) More than 25%
D) More than 90%
  • 10. What did the indigenous Choctaw people call the area of present-day New Orleans?
A) NOLA
B) Orléans
C) Bulbancha
D) Louisiana
  • 11. New Orleans was named in honor of which person?
A) Louis XIV
B) Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz
C) Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
D) Napoleon Bonaparte
  • 12. What is the meaning of the Choctaw word 'Bulbancha'?
A) Land of many tongues
B) The Big Easy
C) Place of the spirits
D) City by the water
  • 13. What is a common nickname for New Orleans that alludes to the course of the Mississippi River?
A) The Big Easy
B) NOLA
C) Crescent City
D) The City that Care Forgot
  • 14. Which nickname for New Orleans refers to the carefree nature of its residents?
A) The City that Care Forgot
B) The Big Easy
C) The Southern Jewel
D) Crescent City
  • 15. What does the acronym NOLA stand for?
A) North Louisiana
B) New Orleans Local Area
C) New Orleans Latin Association
D) New Orleans, Louisiana
  • 16. Who founded New Orleans?
A) Pierre de Rigaud
B) Étienne Perier
C) Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
D) Bernardo de Gálvez
  • 17. The land upon which New Orleans was built was traditionally inhabited by which people?
A) Chitimacha
B) Choctaw
C) Natchez
D) Chickasaw
  • 18. What revolt occurred in 1729 resulting in the deaths of over 200 French colonists?
A) Natchez revolt
B) The American Revolutionary War
C) Chickasaw Wars
D) Louisiana Rebellion
  • 19. What was the name of the code established in 1724 to govern the lives of enslaved Africans?
A) Treaty of Paris
B) Louisiana Creole
C) Vieux Carré
D) Code Noir
  • 20. Which religious group founded a convent in 1727 to educate girls?
A) Company of the Indies
B) Spanish colonial administrators
C) Ursuline sisters
D) The French Mississippi Company
  • 21. Which engineer helped design the city's street grid and fortifications?
A) Étienne Perier
B) Bernardo de Gálvez
C) Adrien de Pauger
D) King Louis XV
  • 22. In what year was Louisiana ceded to the Spanish Empire?
A) 1724
B) 1718
C) 1779
D) 1763
  • 23. Which Spanish governor led a campaign against the British from New Orleans in 1779?
A) Philippe II
B) Pierre de Rigaud
C) Étienne Perier
D) Bernardo de Gálvez
  • 24. Which area of the city features architecture that largely dates from the Spanish period?
A) Baton Rouge
B) Fort Rosalie
C) The French Mississippi
D) Vieux Carré
  • 25. Which group began settling in the New Orleans region from the 1760s onward?
A) Filipinos
B) Chitimacha
C) Nuns
D) Ursuline sisters
  • 26. Who was the French governor during the Natchez revolt?
A) Pierre de Rigaud
B) Adrien de Pauger
C) Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
D) Étienne Perier
  • 27. What public works engineer transformed the city's architecture by the 1740s?
A) Pierre Le Blond de Tour
B) Ignace François Broutin
C) Bernardo de Gálvez
D) Adrien de Pauger
  • 28. Which groups arrived in New Orleans as later immigrants?
A) Mexicans, Brazilians and Argentinians
B) Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders
C) Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch
D) Irish, Germans, Poles and Italians
  • 29. What were the major commodity crops cultivated on plantations near New Orleans?
A) Wheat and barley
B) Coffee and cocoa
C) Sugar and cotton
D) Tobacco and corn
  • 30. Refugees from which revolution arrived in New Orleans between 1791 and 1810?
A) French Revolution
B) Haitian Revolution
C) American Revolution
D) Cuban Revolution
  • 31. Why did French Creoles want more St. Dominican refugees in New Orleans?
A) To support Governor Claiborne
B) To expand the plantation system
C) To increase the sugar supply
D) To increase the French-speaking population
  • 32. What industry was significantly developed by St. Dominican refugees in Louisiana?
A) Shipbuilding industry
B) Mining industry
C) Sugar industry
D) Cotton industry
  • 33. Why were white Francophones deported from Cuba to New Orleans in 1809?
A) Lack of agricultural skills
B) Violation of religious laws
C) Retaliation for Bonapartist schemes
D) Overpopulation in Cuba
  • 34. What percentage of the 1809 immigrants from Cuba settled in New Orleans?
A) About 25 percent
B) Nearly 90 percent
C) Exactly 10 percent
D) Approximately 50 percent
  • 35. How much did the 1809 migration impact the population of New Orleans?
A) It caused a population decline
B) It doubled the city's population
C) It tripled the city's population
D) It increased it by 10 percent
  • 36. Following the 1809 migration, what percentage of New Orleans became black?
A) 53 percent
B) 45 percent
C) 33 percent
D) 63 percent
  • 37. At the time of the 1809 migration, what was the black population percentage in Charleston, South Carolina?
A) 75 percent
B) 63 percent
C) 53 percent
D) 40 percent
  • 38. Who wanted to keep additional free black people out of the Territory of Orleans?
A) The French Creoles
B) The Irish immigrants
C) Governor Claiborne
D) Napoleon Bonaparte
  • 39. How many enslaved Africans participated in the 1811 German Coast rebellion?
A) About 1,000
B) About 100
C) About 500
D) About 5,000
  • 40. What date did the Battle of New Orleans occur?
A) February 16, 1815
B) January 8, 1815
C) December 24, 1814
D) January 8, 1811
  • 41. Which pirate led the local privateers at the Battle of New Orleans?
A) Daniel Ullman
B) Andrew Jackson
C) Jean Lafitte
D) Benjamin F. Butler
  • 42. By 1840, what was the rank of New Orleans in terms of population size in the U.S.?
A) Fourth
B) First
C) Second
D) Third
  • 43. What nickname was given to General Benjamin F. Butler by New Orleans residents?
A) The Conqueror
B) Spoons
C) The Liberator
D) Beast
  • 44. Who was the first U.S. governor of African descent?
A) Benjamin F. Butler
B) Daniel Ullman
C) Andrew Jackson
D) P.B.S. Pinchback
  • 45. What paramilitary group supporting Democrats rose to power during the late 19th century?
A) White League
B) Redeemers
C) Corps d'Afrique
D) Union League
  • 46. When did the racially integrated unions of New Orleans hold a general strike?
A) November 1892
B) September 1877
C) December 1874
D) January 1866
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