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.
84 Louisiana Trivia Questions Ranked From Easiest to Hardest (Updated for 2024)
- Clemson University and Louisiana State University share what animal nickname, who has subspecies includes the Bengal and the Siberian?
Answer: Tigers
- What fruit is featured in the famous Foster ice cream and rum sauce dessert that originated in New Orleans in the 1950s?
Answer: Banana
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Louisiana is a next-door neighbor to what Southern U.S. state, formerly nicknamed “Land of Opportunity," on its Northern border?
Answer: Arkansas
- 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
- Louisiana’s state flag has an image of what big-beaked mamma bird feeding its babies?
Answer: Pelican
- With 159, Georgia has the second most of what amongst the U.S. 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
- What kind of cypress that sounds like it needs a toupee has the honor of being Louisiana’s state tree?
Answer: Bald
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Which town in Jefferson Parish, a short way from New Orleans, is named after a famous French pirate?
Answer: Jean Lafitte
- 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 U.S. 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
- With Napoleonville as its seat, which Louisiana parish might you presume to be sweet, since produces more sugar cane than any other?
Answer: Assumption
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- Measured by barrels per day, the three largest petroleum refineries in the U.S. are in Texas. Which state is home to the fourth largest refinery, and therefore, the largest outside of Texas?
Answer: Louisiana
- 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
- Which pleasant-sounding small town in Allen Parish, Louisiana is home to the Coushatta Casino Resort?
Answer: Kinder
- 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
- 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
- Which number Ward in New Orleans is home to the New Orleans Fairgrounds and Frenchman Street?
Answer: 7th
- At nearly 1 million acres, the Atchafalaya Basin is North America’s biggest floodplain variety of what watery land mass?
Answer: Swamp
- January 26, 1861, is the important date of what historical event in Louisiana?
Answer: Secession
- New Orleans was originally founded by the French. What country took possession of it via the Treaty of Paris in 1763?
Answer: Spain
- Which town in St. Martin Parish is the Crawfish Capital of the World and home to the annual Crawfish Festival?
Answer: Breaux Bridge
- Which owner of 11 NBA championship rings, and the first African American to coach a major U.S. sports team, was born in Monroe, Louisiana on February 12, 1934
Answer: Bill Russell
- 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
- Between 1763 and 1803, the region known today as Louisiana was part of what nation?
Answer: Spain
- 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
- Which university in New Orleans is home to the Green Wave and has Riptide the Pelican as a mascot?
Answer: Tulane University
- 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
- Instead of using counties like most of the U.S., what does Louisiana use to divvy up different parts of the state?
Answer: Parishes
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- The Eastern Brown variety of which big-billed bird is an official symbol of Louisiana, appearing on the state flag and seal?
Answer: Pelican
- What famous musician who became world-renowned was born on August 4, 1901, in New Orleans, Louisiana?
Answer: Louis Armstrong
- 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
- 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
- Founded in a New Orleans suburb in 1972, "Chicken on the Run" was the original name of chain restaurant whose popularity surged when they debuted their infamous chicken sandwiches in mid-2019?
Answer: Popeyes
- 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
- 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
- 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
- What is found at 1001 Capitol Access Road in Baton Rouge?
Answer: Governor’s Mansion
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Huey Long was a former Governor and U.S. senator from Louisiana until his 1935 assassination. However, his son was also a U.S. senator from Louisiana, and served for 38 years until his 1987 retirement. What was that son’s first name?
Answer: Russell
- Which U.S. president called Baton Rouge Louisiana his home, after he had cotton plantations there? He was also general in the Us army before he was president.
Answer: Zachary Taylor
- 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
- 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
- Which famous French-Creole eatery in New Orleans is the oldest restaurant in Louisiana?
Answer: Antoine’s
- 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
- 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
- 48 U.S. 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)
- 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
- Following her husband's death in 1935, Rose McConnell Long became the 3rd woman in U.S. history to hold what title?
Answer: U.S. Senator
- The first offshore oil wells were off the coast of what southern US state in the 1950s?
Answer: Louisiana
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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