parade
Parades celebrate holidays, events, and communities. This topic is part of Celebrations within Arts & Culture. This page currently draws on 8 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
parade trivia questions
A parade is an organized public procession of people, vehicles, or what?
Answer: Floats
Bonus fact: Parades celebrate holidays, events, and communities.
What is a decorated vehicle or platform in a parade called?
Answer: Float
Bonus fact: Floats carry displays or performers.
Which U.S. Thanksgiving parade is famous for giant balloons?
Answer: Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Bonus fact: The Macy's parade is held in New York City.
Which band released the 1969 album "The Soft Parade"?
Answer: The Doors
Bonus fact: The album is one of the most elaborately arranged records in The Doors’ catalog.
Which Doors hit from "The Soft Parade" features prominent brass and string arrangements?
Answer: Touch Me
Bonus fact: "Touch Me" includes orchestration and a memorable saxophone solo, reflecting the album’s expanded studio sound.
What unusual songwriting-credit change appeared on "The Soft Parade" compared with earlier Doors albums?
Answer: Songs were credited to individual writers rather than automatically to the whole band
Bonus fact: The change followed disagreements over commercial uses and authorship, making individual contributions more explicit.
"Morrison Hotel" marked a return toward which style after the more orchestrated "The Soft Parade"?
Answer: Blues-rock
Bonus fact: Released in 1970, the album emphasized a rougher rock-and-blues sound.
Who wrote the music and lyrics for "Songs for a New World"?
Answer: Jason Robert Brown
Bonus fact: Brown later wrote "The Last Five Years" and the score for "Parade."