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What is Mardi Gras?
A: The holiday of Mardi Gras is celebrated in all of Louisiana, including the city of New Orleans.

Celebrations are concentrated for about two weeks before and through what?
A: Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday.

Usually there is one major parade each what?
A: Each day (weather permitting).

Many days have several what?
A: Large parades.

The largest and most elaborate parades take place when?
A: The last five days of the Mardi Gras season.

 

 In the final week, many events occur throughout New Orleans and surrounding communities, including parades and what?
A: Balls (some of them masquerade balls).

The parades in New Orleans are organized by whom?
A: Social clubs known as krewes; most follow the same parade schedule and route each year.

What were the earliest-established krewes?
A: The Mistick Krewe of Comus, the earliest, Rex, the Knights of Momus and the Krewe of Proteus.

Float riders traditionally toss what into the crowds?
A: Throws.

What are the most common throws?
A: Strings of colorful plastic beads, doubloons, decorated plastic "throw cups", Moon Pies, and small inexpensive toys.

 

While many tourists center their Carnival season activities on Bourbon Street, major parades originate in the Uptown and Mid-City districts and follow a route along what?
A: St. Charles Avenue and Canal Street, on the upriver side of the French Quarter.

Where was the first record of Mardi Gras being celebrated in Louisiana?
A: It was at the mouth of the Mississippi River in what is now lower Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, on March 2, 1699.

Mardi Gras celebrations were sometimes prohibited by law and were quickly renewed when?
A: Whenever such restrictions were lifted, or enforcement waned.

Why is Shrove Tuesday a day to be remembered by strangers in New Orleans?
A: That is the day for fun, frolic, and comic masquerading.

Men and boys, women and girls, bond and free, white and black, yellow and brown, exert themselves to invent and appear in what?
A: Grotesque, quizzical, diabolic, horrible, strange masks, and disguises.

 

In 1856 21 businessmen gathered at a club room in the French Quarter to organize what?
A: A secret society to observe Mardi Gras with a formal parade.

They founded New Orleans' first and oldest what?
A: Krewe, the Mystick Krewe of Comus.

In 1875 Louisiana declared Mardi Gras what?
A: A legal state holiday.

War, economic, political, and weather conditions sometimes led to cancellation of some or all major parades, especially during what?
A: The American Civil War, World War I and World War II, but the city has always celebrated Carnival.

In 1991 the New Orleans City Council passed an ordinance that required social organizations, including Mardi Gras Krewes, to do what?
A: To certify publicly that they did not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender or sexual orientation, to obtain parade permits and other public licenses.

Today, New Orleans krewes operate under a business structure; membership is open to anyone who pays dues, and any member can have what?
A: A place on a parade float.

 
 
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