Quiz #1 - Twelfth Night and King Cakes

1. Who are the organizers of the current incarnation of the Phunny Phorty Phellows?

Errol Laborde of New Orleans Publishing Group and Peggy Scott Laborde of WYES-TV.

2. How do you figure out when Mardi Gras is? (Looking it up in Hardy's guide is not the correct answer).

Determine the date of Easter, which is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring Equinox.  Then back up 40 days to the closest Wednesday.  That's Ash Wednesday.  The Tuesday before that is Mardi Gras.

3. What is the costume of the queen of the Twelfth Night Revelers? (answer)

4. What is the name of the Chalmette family associated with king cakes?

5. Who was first to sell king cakes commercially?

6. Who makes the most king cakes annually?

7. Which bakery still includes a porcelain doll with their king cakes?

8. Who deep-fries their king cakes?

9. What is on top of a "traditional" king cake?

10. How can you tell where the baby is in a traditional oval king cake?

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