In 1986, the city of New Orleans, hosting the Super Bowl and concerned about potentially embarrassing media coverage, refused to issue a parade permit to the notoriously irreverent Krewe of Clones, who were due to march on the eve of the game. In what part of the city did the unauthorized Death of the Clones Funeral march take place?

Which of the following New Orleans writers actively campaigned to reverse a decline in street masking on Mardi Gras?

When Madame Walker Fearn was selected as the first queen of Rex, during a grand procession at the krewe’s ball in 1873, she was wearing a...

Of the six original founders of the Mistick Krewe of Comus, how many were natives of New Orleans?

When Emma Butler found a gold bean in her slice of cake at the 1871 Twelfth Night Revelers ball, thus becoming the first queen of a Mardi Gras krewe, she was crowned with a...

When two admit cards to its ball were stolen in 1877, how much money did the Mistick Krewe of Comus offer as a reward for their return?

Who is the author of the 1925 poem “Mardi Gras,” which includes these lines:
“Bodies close pressed to a rhythm erotic,
Dark eyes beseeching an unspoken plea.
Hot blood run riot in revel exotic
For the Monarch of Madness has made his decree."

On the eve of Mardi Gras in 1699, French-Canadian explorer Pierre LeMoyne, Sieur d’Iberville, acting on behalf of the French crown, arrived on a piece of land some 12 leagues north of the mouth of the Mississippi and named it Pointe du Mardi Gras. Whereupon, according to his logbook, he ordered two canister shots fired. Why?

As the first Rex, in 1872, Lewis Solomon made his way through the crowd on horseback. What historical personage was he got up as?

In Comus’s 1873 parade, entitled “The Missing Links to Darwin’s Origin of Species,” General Benjamin Butler, head of the Union occupation during the Civil War, was portrayed as a...

Which krewe presented Carnival’s first parade of political satire?

When Rex toasts his queen on Fat Tuesday, he presents her with a bouquet in the traditional Mardi Gras colors of purple, green and gold/yellow. What color bouquet does he present to his wife?

In 1931, after a nine-year absence, Louis Armstrong triumphantly returned to New Orleans. What gift did he make to the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club?

Which of the following krewes presented its debut parade outside of the Carnival season?

In bygone days, which of the following drinking establishments admitted women only on Mardi Gras day?

The riverboat float that became Papa Joe’s S.S. Endymion originally was built for a...

Which krewe held the first ball at the Municipal Auditorium, in 1930?

King Quasimodo the Humptillionth and Queen Inertia the Weforgethowmanyith reign over the festivities of which krewe?

When a Mardi Gras Indian chief encounters an Indian from another tribe and hollers “Humbah!” he means what?

Who was scheduled to reign as Bacchus in 1979 but never did because of a police strike, which resulted in parade cancellations?

“Sic Volo, sic jubeo” (As I wish, thus I command) is the motto of which krewe?

In whose honor is the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club’s memorabilia store named?

In the 1969 film “Easy Rider,” the characters played by Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda, visiting New Orleans for Mardi Gras, drop acid and trip out in which cemetery?

Which of the following products was advertised on the side of a horse-drawn van in the first Rex parade?

Which of the following is not a recognized category in the Bourbon Street Awards costume competition?