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