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New Orleans (pronounce /nʲuːˈɔɹliˌɛnz/, locally /ˌnuːˈɔːlɛnz/; French: La Nouvelle-Orléans [lanuvɛlɔʀleɑ̃] (help·info)) is a major United States port city and the largest city in Louisiana. It is the center of the New Orleans metropolitan area.

Trivia about new orleans

  • On Feb. 8, 2010 the headline in a major newspaper in this city read, "Amen! After 43 Years, Our Prayers Are Answered"
  • In population, it was by far the largest city in the Confederacy at the start of the Civil War
  • The Rio's Masquerade Village has 3 sections: Rio, Venice & this Mardi Gras city
  • This city's French Quarter encompasses 70 blocks
  • In the 1763 Treaty of Paris France ceded to England all its land east of the Mississippi, except for this city
  • When football's Saints go marching in for a home game, it's in this city
  • The Pharmacy Museum in this city's French Quarter has an enormous leech jar on display
  • The NBA's Jazz franchise spent 5 years in this city before moving to Salt Lake City in 1979
  • Commander's Palace is an elegant restaurant in this Louisiana city's Garden District
  • William Faulkner's novel "Mosquitoes" satirizes the literary life in this Louisiana city
  • For an unusual evening out, this Louisiana city's historic Voodoo Museum offers moonlight swamp cruises
  • During the 1800s, this Louisiana city was known as the "Paris of America"
  • If you live in this city that was founded in 1718, you're an Orleanian
  • Its 3,400-square-mile metropolitan area extends over 8 administrative units known as parishes
  • The NFL'sSaints
  • Parks in this Louisiana city include Audubon & Pontchartrain
  • 171-foot-wide Canal Street runs from Lake Pontchartrain to the Mississippi River in this city
  • You can tour old homes in this city's Garden District & French Quarter during its spring fiesta
  • William Faulkner once lived at 624 Pirates Alley in this Louisiana city; it's now a bookstore that sells his works
  • Harry Connick, Jr. wrote the songs for the musical "Thou Shalt Not", set in this southern city, his hometown
  • The Hotel Maison de Ville,The Soniat House,Le Richelieu in the French Quarter
  • This city's Storyville district famed for jazz & vice, was closed in 1917 at the navy's insistence
  • This city’s Superdome has been just super, hosting 6 Super Bowls, more than any other site
  • The battle of this city was the last military engagement of the War of 1812
  • This "Crescent City" was acquired as part of the land deal the U.S. made with France in 1803
  • Benjamin Franklin "Beast" Butler was dismissed in 1862 as military governor of this Louisiana city
  • Since they peaked 2,500 years ago, you won't find many Etruscans catching jazz in this city's Preservation Hall
  • "The Last Madam" is a recent book about Norma Wallace, who ran a famous brothel in this city's French Quarter
  • Esplanade Avenue,Royal Street,Bourbon Street
  • Away down yonder in Louisiana you'll be drawn & French Quartered to this, its largest city in population
  • Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre in this U.S. city has several ghosts, including that of an actress who fell to her death
  • It's fun to ride the riverboat from the Audobon Zoo to the Aquarium of the Americas in this Louisiana city
  • The final battle of the War of 1812 was fought in 1815 in & around this city
  • From its Times-Picayune:"Basin Street sampler benefits Louis Armstrong... Jazz Camp"
  • Ernest Morial was the first black mayor of this Louisiana city; his son Marc became mayor in 1994
  • How suite it is at the Iberville Suites, in the French Quarter of this city
  • Truman Capote was born on September 30, 1924 in this Southern city
  • Between 2000 & 2007, this city lost half of its 484,674 people; Hurricane Katrina had something to do with it
  • Unaware of the Treaty of Ghent signed earlier, the British attacked this Louisiana city on Jan. 8, 1815
  • In Tennessee Williams' play, streetcars named Desire & Cemetery run on a single track in this southern city
  • The Cabildo in this city was the headquarters of the Spanish rulers of Louisiana
  • Capote was born Truman Streckfus Persons September 30, 1924 in this Southern U.S. city
  • In 2008 a homeless advocacy group reported that one in 25 of this Southern city's 300,000 residents is homeless
  • Louisiana's lowest point is 8 feet below sea level in this city
  • The deepest part of the Mississippi River is 200 feet at Algiers Point across from the French Quarter in this city
  • This city's famous French Quarter is also called the Vieux Carre, which means "old square"
  • Rumors on Royal Street in this city specializes in hand-crafted Mardi Gras masks
  • "The Mardi Gras City"
  • WWNO & WNOE were 2 sources of important info in this city following the disaster brought on by Katrina
  • People were jazzed when a park named for Louis Armstrong was dedicated in this city of his birth
  • "Toys in the Attic" & "A Streetcar Named Desire" are both set in this city
  • The Time Almanac reports this largest city in Louisiana is home to fewer than 1,000 Native Americans, Eskimos & Aleuts
  • This city became the capital of the Louisiana territory in 1722
  • (Ken Burns opens the category for us.) On January 8, 2001 the series "Jazz" premiered with a look at this birthplace of jazz, the USA's most cosmopolitan city at the turn of the 20th century
  • This Louisiana city's been called "The Queen of the South" & "Crescent City"
  • This city's voodoo tours can take you to voodoo rituals & voodo queen Marie Laveau's tomb on Basin St.
  • U.S. city called "The Cradle of Jazz"
  • "The Crescent City"
  • In 1977 voters elected Ernest N. "Dutch" Morial, the first black mayor of this city
  • The Crescent City Classic, a 10K run held in the spring in this Louisiana city, is followed by a huge celebration
  • The French Quarter of this Louisiana city is world-famous for its nightlife
  • The Pontalba Apartments,Pat O'Brien's Bar,Preservation Hall
  • Barbecued shrimp is the specialty of Pascal's Manale on Napoleon Avenue in this southern U.S. city
  • Tulane & Loyola, both on St. Charles Ave. in this city, are an average of 4 feet below sea level
  • The Mistick Krewe of Comus has been participating in parades in this city since 1857
  • In 1815 Sir Edward Pakenham's forces attacked this city & were repulsed by Andrew Jackson's
  • 3 of the 6 restaurants owned by Emeril LaGasse are in this city
  • On honeymoon Rhett says, "Forget about Atlanta. I brought you to" this city "to have fun"
  • Dixieland refers to a style of jazz that originated in this Southern city
  • You can ride a streetcar or a sternwheeler to this city's Audubon Zoo
  • You can get customized gris-gris bags at the Historic Voodoo Museum on Dumaine Street in this city
  • Here are before & after images of this U.S. city in 2000 & 2005
  • Antoine Alciatore opened his restaurant on St. Louis Street in this city in 1840
  • Jean Lafite & Louis Armstrong are depicted in wax at the Musee Conti Wax Museum in this Louisiana city
  • On this largest Louisiana city's seal, the alligator represents the city's marshes & swamps
  • "Mardi Gras City"
  • David Farragut sailed into the Mississippi River in April 1862 & captured Natchez, Baton Rouge & this city
  • Annie Christmas, who unloaded boats in this Louisiana city, could carry a barrel of flour under each arm
  • I'm hiding in the crowd at Mardi Gras, so seek me in this Louisiana "Crescent City"
  • Wynton & Branford Marsalis were both born in this southern "Crescent City"
  • It's the city where you'd find "The House Of The Rising Sun", the ruin of many a poor boy
  • The first jazz record was made by a lame-o white band from this city where black musicians had created jazz
  • The song "Way Down Yonder In" this city goes way back to 1922
  • Marie Laveau's House of Voodoo
  • The title hotel in Arthur Hailey's novel "Hotel" was inspired by the Fairmont in this Louisiana city
  • The 33-story World Trade Center building rises at the south end of Canal Street in this city, y'all
  • 2 steamboats race annually on the Mississippi between St. Louis & this city about 700 miles away
  • "The Crescent City","The Paris of America"
  • (Richard Simmons reads the clue.) Bananas Foster & Oysters Rockefeller are 2 yummy dishes created in this Southern city, my birthplace
  • This city's Lafayette Cemetery appears in several of Anne Rice's Vampire novels
  • World's largest indoor stadium is the domed one in this city
  • Though the financial scheme known as the "Mississippi Bubble"burst in 1720, it led tothe settlement of this city
  • Jean Lafitte immigrated to this city around 1806; he defended it from the British in the War of 1812
  • For years you could find Pete Fountain playing the clarinet at his own club on Poydras St. in this Southern city
  • Antoine's, 713 rue St. Louis
  • In May 2008 this city's mayor Ray Nagin told the citizens, "We are reinventing ourselves in recovery"
  • Bourbon French Parfums in this Louisiana city has sold custom-blended fragrances for over 150 years
  • "The Crescent City",Louisiana
  • cities that the NBA's Hornets called home in the 2005-06 season
  • Paul Tulane gave a substantial endowment to a school in this city, and it was renamed in his honor
  • Lake Pontchartrain & St. Bernard Parish form part of this city's northern & southern boundaries
  • This southern city's convention center is named for Ernest Morial, the city's first African-American mayor
  • An Eiffel Tower eatery was moved to this city, retooled & placed across from the Pontchartrain Hotel
  • In June 2002 this city's Times-Picayune began a 5-part series on the destruction a hurricane could bring
  • In 1808 this formerly Spanish city had the USA's first newspaper in Spanish, fittingly titled El Misisipi
  • The pirate Jean Lafitte was pardoned by President Madison for his help during the 1814 battle of this city
  • Voodoo queen Marie Laveau is one of many local legend depicted in wax at the Musee Conti in this U.S. city
  • George Washington Cable's 1879 collection "Old Creole Days" contained 7 stories set in this city
  • The game of craps developed in the 19th century in this "Crescent City"
  • The Sheraton Hotelat 500 Canal Street
  • From its Times-Picayune: "Capitol projects director left after long dispute over hurricane recovery spending"
  • Armstrong performed "Basin Street Blues" in this 1947 film that shares its name with his hometown
  • Audubon Park,Jean Lafitte National Historic Park
  • Located in this city's Garden District, Commander's Palace features a jazz brunch on weekends
  • Arlo Guthrie: "I'm the train they call the city of" this; "I'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done"
  • The St. Charles streetcar clamors through the heart of this southern delta city
  • In 2006, Nathan used more than 120,000 Lego elements for the rebirth of this Southern city
  • At the end of Prohibition in 1933, Pat O'Brien converted his speakeasy to a legal bar in this city
  • Located at 333 Canal Street, Canal Place is one of the most beautiful shopping centers in this Southern city
  • Oysters Bienville is named for the founder of this Louisiana city
  • Ernest Morial & Moon Landrieu kept 'em marchin' in for this city
  • Johnny Horton:"Battle Of ____ ____"
  • (Hi, I'm Harry Connick Jr.) At age 5 I played "The Star-Spangled Banner" at my dad's inauguration as D.A. of this "Crescent City", my hometown
  • 15 days after the Treaty of Ghent was signed setting an end to the War of 1812, Andrew Jackson beat the British at this city
  • Ordered to capture this city on the Mississippi, David Farragut forced its surrender April 25, 1862
  • The spirit of Marie Laveu reportedly utters voodoo curses to trespassers at a cemetery in this city
  • The completion of the Bonnet Carre Spillway in this city in 1932 largely ended the threat of floods from the Mississippi
  • Sidney Bechet