NOLA cemeteries

I recommend taking this quiz after visiting each cemetery page and reading the history about them. However, if you feel you are ready to take the quiz without doing so, then you are just as morbid as you should be. Good luck!

You will be quizzed on the different cemeteries as well as the types of tombs that are in them. There may be a few questions about the symbols that are often found in the cemeteries as well.

What is your age?
Under 18 Years Old
18 to 24 Years Old
25 to 30 Years Old
31 to 40 Years Old
41 to 50 Years Old
51 to 60 Years Old
Over 60 Years Old
What is your gender?
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Female
1. Which cemetery was clearly divided into a "colored" section and a "white" section during segregation?
Carrollton Cemetery
Metairie Cemetery
Cypress Grove
St. Vincent Cemetery
2. Which cemetery was established by the Firemen's Charitable & Benevolent Association?
St. Mary Cemetery
Greenwood
Cypress Grove
Masonic Cemetery
3. Which is the oldest extant cemetery in New Orleans?
Metairie Cemetery
Lafayette Cemetery No. 1
Odd Fellow's Rest
St. Louis No. 1
4. Which cemetery contains a chapel full of prosthetic limbs and other body parts?
St. Vincent
St. Bartholomew
St. Roch Cemetery
St. Mary
5. Which cemetery was established just for enslaved Africans?
St. Vincent
Valence Cemetery
Odd Fellow's Rest
McDonoghville Cemetery
6. Which cemetery was built by the Irish community of New Orleans?
St. Vincent
St. Patrick
St. Roch Cemetery
St. Mary
7. Which cemetery used to be a race track?
Metairie Cemetery
Greenwood
Cypress Grove
St. Vincent Cemetery
8. Which types of tomb has a rounded roof?
Pitched Roof tomb
Pediment tomb
Platform tomb
Barrel Vaulted tomb
9. Which cemetery supposedly holds the remains of Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau?
St. Vincent
Lafayette Cemetery No. 1
Lafayette Cemetery No. 2
St. Louis No. 1
10. Which type of tomb is a single or multiple vault tomb whose height is equal to or less than its width?
Pitched Roof tomb
Sarcophagus
Platform tomb
Step tomb
11. What is a monumental, four-sided stone shaft, usually monolithic and tapering to a pyramidal tip?
an obelisk
a cross vault
a die
a column
12. What cemetery was once known as the Cemetery of the City of Jefferson?
Valence Cemetery
Carrollton Cemetery
Gates of Prayer
Lafayette Cemetery
13. Which cemetery has only one grave marker?
Masonic
Odd Fellows Rest
Eureka Lodge
Charity Hospital Cemetery
14. Which cemetery was the first cemetery built to honor New Orleans volunteer firemen and their families
Greenwood
Cypress Grove
Eureka Lodge
Masonic Cemetery
15. These "messengers of god" are very popular funerary imagery, often depicted escorting the deceased to heaven or mourning untimely death.
Lambs
Saints
Angels
Butterflies
16. Which cemetery is circled by a mausoleum containing many elaborate stained glass windows depicting images of New Orleans?
St. Vincent Cemetery
St. John Cemetery
St. Roch Cemetery
St. Bartholomew
17. Which cemetery can also be considered a "potter's field" or cemetery for the indignent, and contains many hand written markers and personal items?
Holt Cemetery
St. Mary Cemetery
Masonic Cemetery
Odd Fellow's Rest
18. Which cemetery will soon be the new home of the Hurricane Katrina memorial?
Greenwood
Metairie Cemetery
Charity Hospital Cemetery
Cypress Grove Cemetery
19. Which holy figure is seen most in all the cemeteries in the form of statues, candles and engravings?
Jesus
Mary
St. Joseph
St. John
20. Which cemetery was purchased by non-catholic African Americans to bury their dead?
Masonic
Eureka Lodge
Mt. Olivet
Odd Fellow's Rest
21. What is the address of the cemetery that shares land for the Gates Prayer, Beth Israel and Chevra Thilim congregations?
4200 block of Frenchman Street
4800 block of Canal Street
635 City Park Avenue
1400 Washington Avenue
22. Which cemetery was created from the land of a famous fencing master from the late 1800's?
St. Vincent De Paul Cemetery
Carrollton Cemetery
McDonoghville Cemetery
St. Bartholomew Cemetery
23. Which cemetery was created for the German immigrants who lived in the city of Lafayette and provide income for the sisters who took care of an orphanage?
St. Vincent De Paul Cemetery
St. Joseph's Cemetery
St. Roch Cemetery
St. Bartholomew Cemetery
24. What is the significance of the rocks placed on top of Jewish headstones?
It is how old the person was when they died.
A rock is placed every time the grave is visited.
It is symbolic for the number of children the deceased had.
A rock is placed for every year that passes from the date of the death.
25. Which cemeteries do not bury their dead in tombs? Only below ground.
Protestant cemeteries
Catholic cemeteries
Jewish cemeteries
Episcopal cemeteries
26. In which cemetery is the famous New Orleans musician Professor Longhair buried?
Metairie Cemetery
St. Louis No. 1
Mount Olivet Cemetery
St. Vincent Cemetery

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