New Orleans - The Big Easy II Quiz

Answer: Louis Armstrong

The Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport was built just outside New Orleans in Kenner, Louisiana after World War II and was known as Moisant Field. It was renamed in July 2001 for Louis Armstrong to honour the centennial of his birth.

Answer: Frenchmen Street

Frenchmen Street, a short walk downriver from the French Quarter, features a number of live music venues such as Snug Harbor, d.b.a, Blue Nile and Spotted Cat, where artists such as Coco Robicheaux, John Boutte, Ingrid Lucia, and Irvin Mayfield regularly perform. The street also has a variety of interesting restaurants and cafes.

Answer: It still uses manual pinsetting.

Mid-City Lanes is the site of Rock'nBowl. It regularly features live music, including regular Thursday night Zydeco. Originally opened in 1941, it was bought by John Blanchard in 1988 after he returned home from a trip to Yugoslavia, where he made pilgrimage to Medjugorje and asked for guidance for his future.

Although it is not a high-tech bowling alley, it does have automatic pinsetters.

Answer: Pat O'Brien's

A traditional Hurricane contains four ounces of rum, mixed with passion fruit juice, orange juice and lime juice and other undisclosed ingredients. Visitors to Pat O'Brien's can buy packages of Hurricane mix to take home.

Answer: Old Square

The French Quarter is an area of 78 square blocks that are the oldest part of New Orleans. Although the name is French, most of the French Quarter was built during the period when the Spanish controlled New Orleans.

Answer: The water table is too high to bury below ground.

If the coffins were buried in the ground, a heavy rain could cause the coffins to shift and rise up. Early settlers tried weighing the coffins down with stones, but the coffins would still pop up when the water table rose with the rain.

Answer: a New Orleans Social Aid & Pleasure Club

The Zulu Diamond Cutters are one of the premier krewes of the Zulu parade of Mardi Gras. From their Mardi Gras float, they throw items to the crowds, and the Zulu coconut is the desired prize.

Answer: neutral ground

Legend has it that the neutral ground got its name shortly after the U.S. negotiated the Louisiana Purchase. The Americans settled on the opposite side of Canal Street and the territory between the new arrivals and the established Creole and European populations was referred to as the neutral ground.

Answer: The Times-Picayune

The newspaper was founded in the early 1800s as The Picayune and became The Times-Picayune in 1914. It has operated continuously as New Orleans daily newspaper. Even after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the Times-Picayune published an online version of the paper for three days and then resumed its paper version.

The newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for its public service. Since 2019 it has been known as The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate due to an acquisition and merger.

Answer: All the rooms are in a direct line front to back with no hallway

Shotgun houses are narrow houses, only one room wide, and usually three to five rooms deep. Many of them were built in lower and middle class New Orleans neighbourhoods. The usual story explaining the name given to these long narrow houses is that one can fire a shotgun through the front door with all the shot exiting through the back door without ever having touched a wall.

This is not likely the true origin of the name of this house style, but it sounds great!