Rose Parade Trivia Questions
What is the Rose Parade (Tournament of Roses
Parade)?
A: The Rose Parade is part of "America's New
Year Celebration" held in Pasadena, California
each year on New Year's Day.
What is the Rose parade followed by?
A: The Rose Bowl football game.
What is the Rose Bowl football game?
A: The Rose Bowl is a college football game that
was added in 1902.
Who produces the parade?
A: The nonprofit Pasadena Tournament of Roses
Association.
When was the parade originally started?
A: On January 1, 1890.
The parade is broadcast in how many
international territories and countries?
A: In more than 100.
Why was the Rose Bowl football game added to the
parade in 1902?
A: To help fund the cost of staging the parade.
Who has sponsored the parade since 2011?
A: Honda.
What company has the parade's first float?
A: Honda.
Members of Pasadena's Valley Hunt Club first
staged the parade in what year?
A: 1890.
Since then the parade has been held in Pasadena
every New Year's Day, except when?
A: When January 1 falls on a Sunday. In that
case, it is held on the subsequent Monday,
January 2.
Why was this exception was instituted in 1893?
A: Organizers did not wish to disturb horses
hitched outside Sunday church services.
Many of the members of the Valley Hunt wished to
showcase their new California home's what?
A: Mild winter weather.
At a club meeting, what did Professor Charles F.
Holder announce?
A: "In New York, people are buried in the snow.
Here our flowers are blooming and our oranges
are about to bear. Let's hold a festival to tell
the world about our paradise."
The club organized horse-drawn carriages covered
in what?
A: Flowers.
The parade was followed by foot races, polo
matches, and a game of tug-of-war on the town
lot that attracted how big of a crowd?
A: 2,000.
After seeing the all of the flowers on display,
what did the professor decide to suggest?
A: The name "Tournament of Roses."
Over the next few founding years what were
added?
A: Marching bands and motorized floats.
By 1895, the event was too large for what?
A: The Valley Hunt Club.
To handle the large event, what was formed?
A: The Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association.