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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.
1. Clemson University and Louisiana State University share what animal nickname, who has subspecies includes the Bengal and the Siberian?
Answer: Tigers
2. What fruit is featured in the famous Foster ice cream and rum sauce dessert that originated in New Orleans in the 1950s?
Answer: Banana
3. Avery Island, Louisiana is a historic salt dome that isn’t a popular place to live, but is most well-known for being the birthplace of which red-hot condiment?
Answer: Tabasco
4. New Orleans' Café du Monde is famous for its café au lait made with coffee that's been mixed with what the root of what plant, developed by Louisiana Creoles when coffee was in short supply?
Answer: Chicory
5. In 1541, Hernando de Soto claimed what is now Louisiana as a territory for which European country that would eventually lose it to France in 1682?
Answer: Spain
6. What evergreen tree with blooms that are creamy white to light pink and sweet-smelling was made Louisiana’s official state flower in 1900?
Answer: Magnolia
7. Louisiana is a next-door neighbor to what Southern U.S. state, formerly nicknamed “Land of Opportunity," on its Northern border?
Answer: Arkansas
8. You make me happy when skies are grey! That’s how Louisiana feels about what classic country song that starts off sounding bright but takes kind of a dark turn, if you really listen to the lyrics?
Answer: You Are My Sunshine
9. Louisiana’s state flag has an image of what big-beaked mamma bird feeding its babies?
Answer: Pelican
10. Horace Logan, the announcer for the Shreveport-based country music radio broadcast Louisiana Hayride, was the first person to announce that what person had "left the building?"
Answer: Elvis Presley
11. Scott, Jennings, and Broussard all claim to be the capital of what French sausage, which often comes in blanc (bloodless) and rouge (with blood) versions?
Answer: Boudin
12. 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
13. What kind of cypress that sounds like it needs a toupee has the honor of being Louisiana’s state tree?
Answer: Bald
14. Known by locals as just “The Causeway,” what body of water in southeastern Louisiana does the just under 24-mile-long stretch of highway go over?
Answer: Lake Pontchartrain
15. 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
16. A bullet-riddled automobile is on display at a museum in Gibsland, Louisiana, devoted to what duo, who were ambushed and killed nearby in 1934?
Answer: Bonnie and Clyde
17. Time for a big, easy question. What New Orleans neighborhood, also known as the Vieux Carré, is home to Jackson Square, Bourbon Street, and Cafe Du Monde?
Answer: The French Quarter
18. Issued by the U.S. Mint in 2002, Louisiana’s official state quarter features what brass instrument playing musical notes on the reverse side of the coin?
Answer: Trumpet
19. Which town in Jefferson Parish, a short ways from New Orleans, is named after a famous French pirate?
Answer: Jean Lafitte
20. 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
21. "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
22. With Napoleonville as its seat, which Louisiana parish might you presume to be sweet, since it produces more sugarcane than any other?
Answer: Assumption
23. Nicknamed "Bayou Barbie," this notable college athlete helped the LSU Tigers win the 2023 NCAA Division I Women's March Madness basketball tournament. Name her.
Answer: Angel Reese
24. The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway holds the Guinness record for the longest continuous span over water in the world. The south end is in Metairie and the north end is in what city founded by Bernard de Marigny?
Answer: Mandeville
25. 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
26. 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
27. Which city in Acadia Parish sounds like precipitation, but has a different spelling? (Hint: A watery vibe might be fitting, since it’s also the Frog Capital of the World)
Answer: Rayne
28. Sassafras leaves that have been dried and ground are made to use what traditional herb seasoning found in Louisiana Creole-style gumbo?
Answer: Filé Powder
29. Serving for 16 years in four non-consecutive terms (1972-1980, 1984-1988 and 1992-1996), who is the longest serving governor in Louisiana’s history?
Answer: Edwin Edwards
30. Louisiana's easternmost city shares its name with what river, which forms the southern portion of the Louisiana-Mississippi border, and which might remind one of Louisiana's oyster fishing industry?
Answer: Pearl River
31. Which town in Jefferson Parish on Bayou Barataria was named for a French pirate who helped Andrew Jackson during the Battle of New Orleans, and later became a spy for the Spanish during the Mexican War of Independence?
Answer: Jean Lafitte
32. What region shared between Texas and Louisiana is characterized by mostly conifer forest (as its name implies) and, with up to 50 inches of yearly rain, is among the rainiest parts of Texas?
Answer: Piney Woods
33. Which city in Louisiana is ranked third in population, behind New Orleans and Baton Rouge?
Answer: Shreveport
34. The stripes on the competitors might tell you that Louisiana's Angola Rodeo is held annually in what type of institution?
Answer: Prison
35. 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)
36. Measured by barrels per day, the three largest petroleum refineries in the US are in Texas. Which state is home to the fourth largest refinery, and therefore the largest outside of Texas?
Answer: Louisiana
37. Unsurprisingly, Louisiana was named for which French king who reigned from 1643 to 1715—his first name is the easy part, but do you know his Regnal number (the Roman numerals after his name)?
Answer: Louis XIV
38. 6,800 pounds! That’s the world record for the largest serving of what Creole dish made with meat and/or shellfish with celery, bell peppers, and onions that was set in 2018 at the Walk On's Independence Bowl Fan Fest in Shreveport?
Answer: Gumbo
39. Which pleasant-sounding small town in Allen Parish, Louisiana is home to the Coushatta Casino Resort?
Answer: Kinder
40. In the late 1950s, a nuclear-armed USAF B-47 bomber stationed at the Chennault Air Force Base/International Airport caught fire. Luckily, it was contained to the aircraft and didn’t put people in the surrounding areas at risk. What city is Chennault in? (Hint: The name sounds more like a place to go boating, not flying)
Answer: Lake Charles
41. 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
42. Which number Ward in New Orleans is home to the New Orleans Fairgrounds and Frenchman Street?
Answer: 7
43. At nearly 1 million acres, the Atchafalaya Basin is North America’s biggest floodplain variety of what watery landmass?
Answer: Swamp
44. New Orleans was originally founded by the French. What country took possession of it via the Treaty of Paris in 1763?
Answer: Spain
45. Which town in St. Martin Parish is the Crawfish Capital of the World and home to the annual Crawfish Festival?
Answer: Breaux Bridge
46. Which owner of 11 NBA championship rings, and the first African-American to coach a major US sports team, was born in Monroe, Louisiana on February 12, 1934?
Answer: Bill Russell
47. 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
48. What event resulted in the area that is now called Arkansas joining the United States?
Answer: The Louisiana Purchase
49. 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)
50. 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
51. 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
52. Which university in New Orleans is home to the Green Wave and has Riptide the Pelican as a mascot?
Answer: Tulane University
53. At 450 feet tall, Louisiana’s state capital building is the tallest capital building in the United States (as of 2023). What city is it located in?
Answer: Baton Rouge
54. Instead of using counties like most of the U.S., what does Louisiana use to divvy up different parts of the state?
Answer: Parishes
55. Believe it or not, five states have named the mockingbird their official state bird: Texas, Arkansas, Florida, Tennessee, and what fifth U.S. state that’s situated between Louisiana and Alabama?
Answer: Mississippi
56. The Old Ursuline Convent is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, buildings in Louisiana. It was built in the 1750s as a nunnery. Today, it’s a museum you can visit in the French Quarter of which city?
Answer: New Orleans
57. What's the name given to the live Bengal Tiger who lives in a habitat outside of Louisiana State University's Tiger Stadium? (The current tiger is actually the seventh to share this simple masculine name.)
Answer: Mike
58. Taking place in Louisiana during the Civil War in May-July 1863, what was the longest siege in U.S. military history?
Answer: Siege of Port Hudson
59. The Eastern Brown variety of which big-billed bird is an official symbol of Louisiana, appearing on the state flag and seal?
Answer: Pelican
60. What famous musician who became world-renowned was born on August 4, 1901 in New Orleans, Louisiana?
Answer: Louis Armstrong
61. What outlaw that grew up in West Dallas was head of a gang known for bank robberies, and along with his girlfriend was believed to have killed nine people before being mowed down by law enforcement in Bienville Parish, Louisiana on May 23, 1934?
Answer: Clyde Barrow
62. According to the title of a classic New Orleans-based novel by Louisiana author Walker Percy, what hobby-based nickname describes the main character, Binx Bolling?
Answer: The Moviegoer
63. Founded in a New Orleans suburb in 1972, "Chicken on the Run" was the original name of the chain restaurant whose popularity surged when they debuted their infamous chicken sandwiches in mid-2019?
Answer: Popeyes
64. What was the name of the offshore oil drilling platform, roughly 40 miles southeast of Louisiana, that spilled nearly 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico in 2010?
Answer: Deepwater Horizon
65. What American politician, better known for shooting Alexander Hamilton, was tried for treason after he allegedly conspired to seize land in Louisiana?
Answer: Aaron Burr
66. You might have to think back to your high school foreign language class for this one: What does "Baton Rouge" mean in French?
Answer: Red Stick
67. Great balls of fire! Which famous Louisiana-born, three-named pianist and singer-songwriter was a pioneer of rock music?
Answer: Jerry Lee Lewis
68. What brewery, famous for its Turbodog Ale as well as its popular brand of non-alcoholic root beer, uses artesian well water from its Covington, Louisiana surroundings?
Answer: Abita Brewing Company
69. What state derives its civil law from, among other influences, the law codes created by Napoleon rather than English common law?
Answer: Louisiana
70. Catahoula-LaSalle Bank, Jackson Parish Bank, and The Mer Rouge State Bank are some state-chartered banks in what pretty guessable U.S. state?
Answer: Louisiana
71. In what Southern U.S. state can you fish, hike, and camp in Chicot State Park? It’s also the home of the state’s arboretum, if you’re really into trees.
Answer: Louisiana
72. In what Louisiana city will you find the state-chartered Coastal Commerce Bank?
Answer: Houma
73. What Louisiana state-chartered bank in Crowley first opened in 1926 on the corner of Parkerson Avenue and Second St., with $50,000 to its name?
Answer: Bank of Commerce & Trust Company
74. The Lake Peigneur Disaster of 1980 occurred when a salt lake accidentally got drained into a mine. This event changed the lake forever as well as the land around it—not to mention produced a sinkhole that sucked up drilling platforms and even a tugboat. What Southern state is the lake in (and in fact, is the deepest in the state)?
Answer: Louisiana
75. Which small town in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana was named after the commodity that early settlers were exporting a great deal of on boats that arrived via Bayou Rouge?
Answer: Cottonport
76. Huey Long was a former Governor and US senator from Louisiana until his 1935 assassination. However, his son was also a US senator from Louisiana, and served for 38 years until his 1987 retirement. What was that son’s first name?
Answer: Russell
77. Which U.S. president called Baton Rouge, Louisiana home after he had cotton plantations there? He was also a general in the U.S. Army before he was president.
Answer: Zachary Taylor
78. Despite its name, what historic site in northeastern Louisiana is home to one of the "richest" collections of ancient Native American earthwork mounds in North America?
Answer: Poverty Point
79. What is found at 1001 Capitol Access Road in Baton Rouge?
Answer: Governor’s Mansion
80. 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
81. In 1813, Louisiana's Governor Claiborne offered a $500 reward for the capture of Jean Lafitte. What was Lafitte's notorious profession?
Answer: Pirate
82. Which famous French-Creole eatery in New Orleans is the oldest restaurant in Louisiana?
Answer: Antoine's
83. The Louisiana Purchase occurred in 1803, when the United States bought the territory of the country of France for how many million dollars?
Answer: 15
84. Which human-made reservoir on the Sabine River is a joint project by Louisiana and Texas, and its dam is capable of producing 92 megawatts of electrical power?
Answer: Toldeo Bend
85. The novelist born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien in New Orleans in 1941 was better known under what pen name used for her books about vampires, witches, and mummies?
Answer: Anne Rice
86. What award-winning author of A Lesson Before Dying returned to buy property on the plantation land in Oscar, Louisiana, where he'd grown up among a family of sharecroppers?
Answer: Ernest Gaines
87. Which mountain in Bienville Parish is the highest natural place in Louisiana (noted by a big pile of rocks)?
Answer: Driskill
88. 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
89. What classic Robert Penn Warren novel about populist governor Willie Stark was inspired by real-life Louisiana Senator Huey Long?
Answer: All the King's Men
90. 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
91. Which lake on the border of Louisiana in Texas has one of the largest flood cypress forests in the U.S.?
Answer: Caddo Lake
92. What Louisiana banking branch got started in 2010, when it opened its doors out of a double-wide trailer on Nelson Road near a body of water named Charles? Given the location, its name makes total sense—or should we say cents?
Answer: Lakeside Bank
93. 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
94. What small town in Avoyelles Parish is the Louisiana 4H Museum and Hall of Fame (which, in turn, is home to the “Parade of Possibilities” exhibit)?
Answer: Mansura
95. 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
96. Louisiana French has several dialects, including which two geographically directional versions?
Answer: Lower and upper
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