NEW ORLEANS QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2025/2026

NEW ORLEANS QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2025/2026 median household income - Answers about $37,500 approximate population - Answers 391,500 percentage of population who are veterans - Answers %5.9 percentage of population who are female - Answers %51.6 number of tourists in 2016 (record breaking) - Answers 10,450,000 tourism revenue in 2016 - Answers $7,410,000,000 Hurricane Katrina landfall in New Orleans (date) - Answers August 23, 2005 What percentage of the total population is white? - Answers %30.5 What percentage of the total population is hispanic? - Answers 4.9% What percentage of the total population is black? - Answers %59.8 What percentage of the total population is asian? - Answers 3% Which two ethnic populations are drastically different between New Orleans and the State of Louisiana? - Answers Black and White Which continent, after the Americas, are most New Orleanians from? - Answers Asia Which continent, after the Americas and Asia are most New Orleanians from? - Answers Europe Of the foreign-born population, which countries are most represented? - Answers Vietnam, Honduras, and Mexico What percentage of foreign-born New Orleanians are French originally? - Answers %2.5 Cosimo Vincent Matassa - Answers American recording engineer and studio owner, responsible for many R&B and early rock and roll recordings. Opened the J&M Recording Studio, and later Cosimo Recording Studio in New Orleans. Date the Louisiana Purchase was signed: - Answers April 30, 1803 Amount of land acquired in the Louisiana Purchase: - Answers 828,000 square miles Cost of the land acquired in the Louisiana Purchase: - Answers $15,000,000 Visual artist and filmmaker responsible for the projects #StudioBe and #ExhibitBe - Answers Brandan "B-mike" Odums an American artist most notable for charcoal sketches and black and white photography of poor white and black athletes, dwarfs, and amputees. - Answers George Dureau painter and photographer born in Irish Channel and raised in Mid-City: - Answers George Dureau According to Ned Sublette, New Orleans had 3 colonial periods, all in quick succession. What were they? - Answers French, Spanish, Anglo-American Streets running perpendicular to Napolean are named for: - Answers Napoleon's military victories In New Orleans, 30 feet below topsoil uncovers not bedrock, but: - Answers Peat and Clay What is the tallest building in Louisiana? - Answers One Shell Square The pilings of One Shell Square run how deep? - Answers 200 feet What percentage of our continental runoff drains through the Mississippi River? - Answers 41% What is geologically the youngest region of the North American continent? - Answers Lower Louisiana members of a group of modern African peoples of the S Congo Republic, the W Democratic Republic of the Congo, and NW Angola, associated with Congo Square - Answers Bakongo Bantu language or languages of Bakongo peoples, a creolized form of which serves as a lingua franca in the lower Congo River basin. - Answers Kikongo Spain held New Orleans from: - Answers During the years when the Spanish Governor of New Orleans reported to the Spanish captain general of Cuba, rules regarding slaves in New Orleans were much like those in: - Answers Havana During Spanish rule, could slaves in New Orleans purchase their freedom? - Answers Yes According to Ned Sublette, New Orlean's latter day musical ligua franca was: - Answers Funk What three major Uptown thoroughfares are named for slaveholding presidents of the United States? - Answers Washington, Jefferson, and Jackson About what percentage of New Orleanians claim to be religious? - Answers 65% When was St. Louis Cathedral built? - Answers Which New Orleans clockmaker procured the clock for the facade of St. Louis Cathedral? - Answers Jean Delachaux What is inscribed on the clock in the facade of St. Louis Cathedral? - Answers (French) Brave people of Louisiana, this clock, whose name is Victory, was cast in memory of the glorious 8th of January, 1815 Which Italian painter decorated the interior and three altars of St. Louis Cathedral? - Answers Francisco Zapari In 1819, Pere Antoine christened the bell in St. Louis Cathedral as "____________," - Answers Victoire In 1819, Pere Antoine christened the bell in St. Louis Cathedral as "Victoire," after__________ - Answers Gen. Andrew Jackson's defeat of the British in the Battle of New Orleans four years earlier. West African ethnic group originating from Senegambia who made up a significantly larger portion of the slave population in Louisiana than the rest of the Western hemisphere when slavery was instituted in New Orleans - Answers Bambara The first president of the Louisiana State Senate - Answers Julien De Lallande Poydras Name Columbus gave to Hispaniola upon his discovery in 1492 - Answers "La Española" - The Spanish One Taínos - Answers one of the largest of the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean at the time of European contact in the late 15th century Ayiti ("land of high mountains") - Answers the indigenous Taíno name for the island of Hispaniola Spain's first city in the New World was - Answers Santo Domingo Fernando was king of - Answers Aragon