New Orleans City Trivia

Can you guess these facts about the city of New Orleans, Louisiana?

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Last updated: August 28, 2018

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First submitted	June 10, 2010
Times taken	20,159
Average score	57.1%
Rating	4.09

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Hint	Answer
Hurricane that struck in 2005	Katrina
The most famous street in New Orleans	Bourbon Street
Neighborhood in which that street is located	French Quarter
NFL team based in New Orleans	New Orleans Saints
Most common nickname for the city	The Big Easy
Common four letter abbreviation for New Orleans	NOLA
Jazz musician supposedly born on the 4th of July, 1900	Louis Armstrong
New Orleans style fried shrimp sandwich	Po' Boy
New Orleans style powdered donut	Beignet
Cafe famous for serving those donuts	Cafe du Monde
A person of Acadian French descent is known as a ...	Cajun
A person of mixed European, Black, and Native American heritage is a ...	Creole
Style of music played with a washboard for percussion	Zydeco
Saltwater lake that borders the city	Lake Pontchartrain
Louisiana equivalent of "county"	Parish
New Orleans translation of "who is that?"	Who dat?
New Orleans translation of "where are you?" or "how's it going?"	Where y'at
New Orleans term for a street median	Neutral ground
Play by Tennessee Williams set in New Orleans	A Streetcar Named Desire
Historic neighborhood which inspired an HBO drama of the same name	Tremé
Popular soup often made with okra	Gumbo

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20 Comments

Level 19

Jun 28, 2013

Yeah only people from New Orleans would know these, I only got 2 right because they were common sense, lol.

Level 79

Mar 13, 2018

Never been to New Orleans. Got everything guessed over 40%

Level 61

Mar 17, 2018

I got 18 and I've never been within 500 miles of New Orleans. I have watched the HBO series Treme, which is excellent and really added to my knowledge.

Level 82

May 13, 2021

I'm from the UK and I got 10, but mostly from studying Louisiana French as a linguistics topic.

Level 73

Jun 8, 2014

Just there last year and couldn't get Bourbon Street - got Beale St. from Memphis stuck in my head and it just wouldn't move over.

Level 73

Mar 18, 2018

BTW, the Garden District is my favorite part of the city and it didn't even get a mention.

Level 47

Apr 16, 2016

The shrimp poboy is my least favorite type. I prefer the pork. Have to kick myself for missing NOLA; 50 years removed from Louisiana, but at least I should have remembered from a restaurant in Los Angeles named NOLA.

Level 52

Feb 12, 2017

Is that what everyone else calls Neutral Ground? I thought that term was universal...

Level 65

Mar 23, 2018

Haha nope, never heard this term used before taking this quiz. Native to the US but definitely not New Orleans.

Level 58

Jan 20, 2021

my son goes to school in Nola. I never heard of neutral ground until he went there. We just call it median or median strip or island.

Level 92

Aug 12, 2017

"Suddenly, Last Summer" is another Williams play that takes place in New Orleans.

Level 91

Aug 23, 2017

How about a little leniency on A Streetcar Named Desire. It won't take "Streetcar Named Desire" without the "A."

Level 89

Aug 24, 2017

Interesting, I just put in Streetcar and it popped right in.

Level 49

Mar 13, 2018

How about throwing in lagniappe--as a little lagniappe? (Great word: French from Spanish from Quechua.)

Level 89

Mar 13, 2018

I did my undergrad in New Orleans, so I know the place really well. You need to accept Vieux Carré as an alternate for the French Quarter. I didn't miss that one, but it's what a real New Orleanian might say, and they are interchangeable correct terms for that part of the city.

Level 67

Mar 13, 2018

A real New Orleanian would say French Quarter first. Vieux Carre would only be mentioned as an alternative.

Level 92

Mar 14, 2018

Both are correct, but locals generally use 'Vieux Carre' in the names of groups or associations or historical references. 'French Quarter' is what we usually call it.

Level 48

May 17, 2022

It says Vieux Carre on the interstate exit signs, but I don't think I've ever heard anyone call it that in conversation. Calling it the French Quarter is much more common. I've only ever heard Vieux Carre in the context of historic preservation.

Level 48

May 17, 2022

100%, easy for a New Orleanian but likely tricky for anyone else

Level 79

Oct 10, 2025

May I suggest to remove the Cajun and Zydeco questions? They don't really belong in that quiz as Cajun culture is centered much further west around Lafayette. There's plenty of local material to round up the quiz, such as "General and President who won the Battle of New Orleans" (the main square is named after him) or "19th c. naturalist who painted the birds of America" (the main park and zoo are named after him).