Welcome to our page of Louisiana trivia questions! Louisiana is a state known for its rich culture, unique history, and iconic landmarks, making it a fascinating destination for trivia enthusiasts. Our selection of questions covers a wide range of topics including the state's history, culture, geography, and landmarks. Whether you're a native of Louisiana or just a curious learner, our trivia questions will help you discover new and exciting information about this great state.
For those interested in the history of Louisiana, our trivia questions will take you through the state's past, from its early days as a French colony to the present. We also cover the state's famous landmarks such as the French Quarter, the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, and the Mardi Gras. Culture enthusiasts can learn about the state's diverse cultural heritage, traditional customs, and local art forms.
Louisiana's geography and wildlife are also an important part of the state's identity, and our questions cover information about the state's natural wonders like the Atchafalaya Basin, the Barataria Preserve and the unique wildlife such as the American Alligator and the state bird, the Eastern Brown Pelican.
Our trivia questions are designed to be challenging yet entertaining, making them perfect for individuals, families, or groups of friends. Whether you're looking for a fun way to pass the time or you want to test your knowledge of Louisiana, our trivia questions are sure to provide hours of entertainment.
35 Louisiana Trivia Questions Ranked From Easiest to Hardest (Updated for 2023)
- Clemson University and Louisiana State University share what animal nickname, who has subspecies includes the Bengal and the Siberian?
Answer: Tigers
- ______ Ginter Botanical Garden is a 50 acre space in Richmond, VA’s Lakeside neighborhood. Fill in the blank, also the last name of the man who explored the Louisiana Purchase alongside William Clark from 1804-1806.
Answer: Lewis
- A National Park and Reserve in Port Alsworth, AK, made a national park in 1980, is Lake ______. Fill in the one word blank, also the last name of the explorer who trekked the Louisiana Purchase with Meriwether Lewis.
Answer: Lake Clark
- With 159, Georgia has the second most of what amongst the US states? Texas has the most with 254, and two states (Louisiana and Alaska) technically have zero because they use different terms for this concept.
Answer: Counties
- Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Penn Warren admitted that his iconic character Willie Stark in "All the King's Men" was inspired by what 20th century Louisiana politician?
Answer: Huey Long
- Humlebaek, Denmark is home to a modern art museum that shares its name with what US State, whose capital is Baton Rouge?
Answer: Louisiana Museum Of Modern Art
- In the year 2000, Kentwood, Louisiana opened a museum dedicated to which 18-year-old songstress who, along with her siblings Bryan and Jamie Lynn, calls the town home?
Answer: Britney Spears
- Three US states collectively account for over half of all domestic refining capacity. California and Texas are two of these states. What is the third?
Answer: Louisiana
- "Pistol Pete" Maravich (1970) and Shaquille O'Neal both won player of the year honors while playing hoops for what university?
Answer: Louisiana State University
- Folger's coffee is roasted not too far from the World War II Museum and Café du Monde, in what Southern U.S. city?
Answer: New Orleans
- President Thomas Jefferson bought about 828,000 square miles worth of land from France in 1803. What name was given to the transaction for that territory?
Answer: Louisiana Purchase
- The stripes on the competitors might tell you that Louisiana's Angola Rodeo is held annually in what type of institution?
Answer: Prison
- With a population estimated at 4.5 million persons in 2019, Kentucky is the 26th most-populous state. With one guess, name either the 25th or 27th most populous state. So your goal is to guess which state has nearly the same population as the Bluegrass state.
Answer: Louisiana (25th) and Oregon (27th)
- A self-taught Black artist from Louisiana, who painted works such as “Picking Cotton” and “Zinnias In A Pot” in the 1960s, is Clementine ______. Fill in the one word blank, also a word for a person that stalks and kills animals.
Answer: Clementine Hunter
- 48 U.S. states are divided into counties. Alaska is instead divided into boroughs. What other state has unique intra-state division by using a system of 64 parishes?
Answer: Louisiana
- What Minneapolis icon had all four grandparents born in the state of Louisiana, a hotbed of the icon's musical influences and had a younger sister named Tyka?
Answer: Prince
- January 26, 1861 is the important date of what historical event in Louisiana?
Answer: Secession
- Between 1763 and 1803, the region known today as Louisiana was part of what nation?
Answer: Spain
- Name all 6 states that border Arkansas.
Answer: Missouri
- The lowest point in Arkansas lies near the 605-mile-long river that crosses the southern Arkansas border into Louisiana. What river is this?
Answer: Ouachita River
- What event resulted in the area that is now called Arkansas joining the United States?
Answer: The Louisiana Purchase
- On March 1, 1803 Ohio became the 17th state in the US. Name either the 16th or 18th state, both of which border the Mississippi River. (admitted) Northwest Territory (part)
Answer: Tennessee (16th) or Louisiana (18th)
- What was the name given to the 2017 Hurricane that hit Texas as well as Louisiana? It shares its name with a 1950 film about James Stewart having visions of an invisible giant rabbit.
Answer: Harvey
- What 1998 comedy features Adam Sandler as the title character, who helps out the University of Louisiana's football program on the sidelines?
Answer: The Waterboy
- A historical museum near Portland in Vancouver, WA is the ______ County Historical Museum. Fill in the one word “C” blank, the last name of the explorer who traversed the Louisiana Purchase with Lewis, and the first name of Superman’s secret identity.
Answer: Clark County Historical Museum
- In the early 1900s, there was a campaign to bring which animals to America from Africa and let them live in the Louisiana bayous to be raised for meat? (Hint: The NYT was into the idea, referring to the creatures as “lake cow bacon”)
Answer: Hippos
- Striking the Bahamas, Florida, and Louisiana in mid-to-late August 1992 and causing dozens of fatalities along with over $20 billion in damages was what male-named hurricane?
Answer: Andrew
- What 1896 Supreme Court decision upheld a Louisiana law forbidding a Black man to board a whites-only train car, with a "separate but equal" doctrine that perpetuated Jim Crow laws thereafter?
Answer: Plessy v. Ferguson
- In 1813, Louisiana's Governor Claiborne offered a $500 reward for the capture of Jean Lafitte. What was Lafitte's notorious profession?
Answer: Pirate
- 48 US states are divided into Counties. Two are not, using either Boroughs or Parishes as the term to delineate state regions. Name one of the 2 non-County states.
Answer: Louisiana (parish) and Alaska (borough)
- Following her husband's death in 1935, Rose McConnell Long became the 3rd woman in US history to hold what title?
Answer: US Senator
- The first offshore oil wells were off the coast of what southern US state in the 1950s?
Answer: Louisiana
- Which category 5 hurricane that devastated Florida, the Bahamas, and Louisiana in August of 1992 is remembered as one of the worst natural disasters of the ‘90s?
Answer: Andrew
- What is the musical genre that evolved in southwest Louisiana by French Creole speakers that is frequently fast tempo and dominated by the accordion and a washboard derivative? The origin of the style's name is uncertain.
Answer: Zydeco
- Crescent City is both the name of a town on the extreme northern coast of California, and also one of the nicknames of what American city near the Gulf of Mexico?
Answer: New Orleans
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