NEW ORLEANS EXAM QUESTIONS AND
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Median household income - ANS about $37,500
approximate population - ANS 391,500
percentage of population who are veterans - ANS %5.9
percentage of population who are female - ANS %51.6
number of tourists in 2016 (record breaking) - ANS 10,450,000
tourism revenue in 2016 - ANS $7,410,000,000
Hurricane Katrina landfall in New Orleans (date) - ANS August 23, 2005
What percentage of the total population is white? - ANS %30.5
What percentage of the total population is hispanic? - ANS 4.9%
What percentage of the total population is black? - ANS %59.8
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,What percentage of the total population is asian? - ANS 3%
Which two ethnic populations are drastically different between New Orleans and the State of
Louisiana? - ANS Black and White
Which continent, after the Americas, are most New Orleanians from? - ANS Asia
Which continent, after the Americas and Asia are most New Orleanians from? - ANS Europe
Of the foreign-born population, which countries are most represented? - ANS Vietnam,
Honduras, and Mexico
What percentage of foreign-born New Orleanians are French originally? - ANS %2.5
Cosimo Vincent Matassa - ANS 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: - ANS April 30, 1803
Amount of land acquired in the Louisiana Purchase: - ANS 828,000 square miles
Cost of the land acquired in the Louisiana Purchase: - ANS $15,000,000
Visual artist and filmmaker responsible for the projects #StudioBe and #ExhibitBe -
ANS 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. - ANS George Dureau
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, painter and photographer born in Irish Channel and raised in Mid-City: - ANS George Dureau
According to Ned Sublette, New Orleans had 3 colonial periods, all in quick succession. What
were they? - ANS French, Spanish, Anglo-American
Streets running perpendicular to Napolean are named for: - ANS Napoleon's military victories
In New Orleans, 30 feet below topsoil uncovers not bedrock, but: - ANS Peat and Clay
What is the tallest building in Louisiana? - ANS One Shell Square
The pilings of One Shell Square run how deep? - ANS 200 feet
What percentage of our continental runoff drains through the Mississippi River? - ANS 41%
What is geologically the youngest region of the North American continent? - ANS 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 - ANS Bakongo
Bantu language or languages of Bakongo peoples, a creolized form of which serves as a lingua
franca in the lower Congo River basin. - ANS Kikongo
Spain held New Orleans from: - ANS 1762-1800
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: - ANS Havana
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ANSWERS 100% PASS
Median household income - ANS about $37,500
approximate population - ANS 391,500
percentage of population who are veterans - ANS %5.9
percentage of population who are female - ANS %51.6
number of tourists in 2016 (record breaking) - ANS 10,450,000
tourism revenue in 2016 - ANS $7,410,000,000
Hurricane Katrina landfall in New Orleans (date) - ANS August 23, 2005
What percentage of the total population is white? - ANS %30.5
What percentage of the total population is hispanic? - ANS 4.9%
What percentage of the total population is black? - ANS %59.8
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,What percentage of the total population is asian? - ANS 3%
Which two ethnic populations are drastically different between New Orleans and the State of
Louisiana? - ANS Black and White
Which continent, after the Americas, are most New Orleanians from? - ANS Asia
Which continent, after the Americas and Asia are most New Orleanians from? - ANS Europe
Of the foreign-born population, which countries are most represented? - ANS Vietnam,
Honduras, and Mexico
What percentage of foreign-born New Orleanians are French originally? - ANS %2.5
Cosimo Vincent Matassa - ANS 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: - ANS April 30, 1803
Amount of land acquired in the Louisiana Purchase: - ANS 828,000 square miles
Cost of the land acquired in the Louisiana Purchase: - ANS $15,000,000
Visual artist and filmmaker responsible for the projects #StudioBe and #ExhibitBe -
ANS 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. - ANS George Dureau
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, painter and photographer born in Irish Channel and raised in Mid-City: - ANS George Dureau
According to Ned Sublette, New Orleans had 3 colonial periods, all in quick succession. What
were they? - ANS French, Spanish, Anglo-American
Streets running perpendicular to Napolean are named for: - ANS Napoleon's military victories
In New Orleans, 30 feet below topsoil uncovers not bedrock, but: - ANS Peat and Clay
What is the tallest building in Louisiana? - ANS One Shell Square
The pilings of One Shell Square run how deep? - ANS 200 feet
What percentage of our continental runoff drains through the Mississippi River? - ANS 41%
What is geologically the youngest region of the North American continent? - ANS 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 - ANS Bakongo
Bantu language or languages of Bakongo peoples, a creolized form of which serves as a lingua
franca in the lower Congo River basin. - ANS Kikongo
Spain held New Orleans from: - ANS 1762-1800
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: - ANS Havana
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