The daughter of which late Mardi Gras Indian Big Chief co-founded the Mardi Gras Indian Hall of Fame, at the Oretha Castle Haley Elementary School?

How many weekdays do New Orleans children typically get off from school for the Mardi Gras holiday?

For which New Orleans musician did the late Earl King write the anthem “Go to the Mardi Gras”?

Which of the following krewes has never paraded along Canal Street in Mid-City?

Which of the following parading krewes has no king, no queen and no ball?

A 1989 ordinance prohibiting the tossing of critters from floats came about because float riders had thrown...

Which Zulu Float Character traditionally accessorizes his costume with a derby and a large cigar?

Which marching club used to appear in blackface but abandoned the custom at the outset of the civil rights movement?

The late New Orleans Mayor Dutch Morial established the Mayor’s Mardi Gras Coordinating Committee in order to...

In which krewe do candidates campaign to be king, in an election whose outcome is determined by a vote of the membership?

Which krewe deploys a mule-drawn king’s float sporting a brass plaque inscribed with the names of all the kings who have ridden the float?

Which of the following is not forbidden by Mardi Gras-related ordinances in the New Orleans city code?

Who founded the New Orleans Mask Makers Guild and the Mardi Gras Mask Market?

Which krewe owes its name to the horse that won the New Orleans Handicap at the Fair Grounds in 1963?

Which Bacchus signature float utilizes a prop originally designed by Blaine Kern for the Bridge Gate at the 1984 World’s Fair in New Orleans?

What role did Boy Scouts play in the early Krewe of Mid-City parades?

Where does the court of the Mistick Krewe of Comus watch the Rex parade?

A huge semicircular fan of fantasia ostrich plumes is the trademark of the captain of which krewe?

According to Carnival lore, from whence does Rex descend to reign over his annual pageant?

Which gay krewe annually selects a “debutramp” — the group’s most dedicated supporter during the year — from among its costumed performers?

Who dubbed Pete Fountain, the late jazz clarinetist and Fat Tuesday marching group legend, “The Prince of Mardi Gras”?

Which of the following are you not likely to see in front of St. Louis Cathedral on Fat Tuesday?

What New Orleans artist has depicted notable scenes from Carnival history including works entitled “The Grand Duke Alexis at the Comus Parade in 1872,” “Louis Armstrong as King of the Zulu, 1949” and “The Great Ox of Carnival, Rex Parade, 1872”?

Which Carnival float builder became known for an innovation on the papier mâché technique called the “direct method,” whereby adhesive is applied directly to sheets of paper that, in turn, are manipulated into sculpture and armature?

“I thought I was in the middle of hell,” remarked which famous evangelist after visiting Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras?