Q 01/05

French settlers expelled from Canada's Acadia in 1755 found a new home around Baton Rouge; what are their descendants called?

A) Cajuns

B) Creoles

C) Métis

D) Huguenots

Answer · why

A) Cajuns

Cajuns: the name is simply 'Acadians' as generations of Louisiana tongues wore it down, and it stuck to the French-speaking communities they built in ...

Q 02/05

The governor's mansion Huey Long built in Baton Rouge in 1930 closely resembles which famous building?

A) The White House

B) Monticello

C) Mount Vernon

D) Buckingham Palace

Answer · why

A) The White House

The White House: the story goes that Long wanted to know his way around the real one when he became president, though some call it simply a fine Georg...

Q 03/05

Which French explorer led the expedition up the Mississippi that recorded the red stick in 1699?

A) Jacques Cartier

B) Samuel de Champlain

C) Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville

D) Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville

Answer · why

D) Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville

Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville had been sent to find the mouth of the Mississippi from the sea and fortify it, finishing the job La Salle began, and note...

Q 04/05

After Union troops took Baton Rouge in 1862, Louisiana's Confederate government ended the war based in which city?

A) Shreveport

B) Lafayette

C) Alexandria

D) Natchitoches

Answer · why

A) Shreveport

Shreveport took over after a stopover in Opelousas, and the seat of government came home to Baton Rouge only in 1882, twenty years after it left.

Q 05/05

After France gave it up in 1763, Baton Rouge became part of which British colony?

A) Carolina

B) West Florida

C) East Florida

D) Georgia

Answer · why

B) West Florida

West Florida ran along the Gulf Coast from the Mississippi with its capital at Pensacola, but Britain kept Baton Rouge for only 16 years before Spain ...