Question: The giant celebration that involved the whole community is thought to be the origin of what festivity?
Answer: Carnival

Question: How long is the Lenten period of the Liturgical calendar?
Answer: six weeks

Question: What type of rich foods did people refrain from eating during Lent?
Answer: meat, dairy, fat and sugar

Question: What was one of the festivals sanctioned by the church?
Answer: corpus christi

Question: Carnival was also a result of what area's folk culture?
Answer: European

Question: How many days is Jesus traditionally said to have fasted in the desert?
Answer: 40

Question: What pagan midwinter festival did the church find easier to subvert than eliminate?
Answer: Christmas

Question: Why were multiple holidays seized by the Catholic population?
Answer: outlet for their daily frustrations

Question: In what year did the synod in Leptines rant against the excesses of the festival?
Answer: 743

Question: In what month did the excesses occur?
Answer: February

Question: What type of books from around 800 contain more information of people's traditions during this period?
Answer: Confession

Question: What was it a sin with no small penance to dress up as?
Answer: an animal or old woman

Question: What would some people in Spain go out disguised as?
Answer: the opposite gender

Question: Many Carnival traditions form an integral part of whose calendar?
Answer: Christian

Question: What two ancient Roman festivals is Carnival thought to stem from?
Answer: Saturnalia and Bacchanalia

Question: The Saturnalia is potentially based on what Greek festival?
Answer: Dionysia

Question: On which month and day did Saturnalia start?
Answer: December 17

Question: What happened to the men and women chosen to represent the Lord of Misrule?
Answer: horribly murdered

Question: What is insufficient to establish a direct origin from ancient festivals to Carnival?
Answer: evidence

Question: What festival did no complete accounts describing survive?
Answer: Saturnalia

Question: How do both Jesus and King Carnival make a gift to the people?
Answer: with their deaths

Question: What is the gift of King Carnival?
Answer: acknowledgement that death is a necessary part of the cycle of life

Question: Who was forced to race naked through the streets of Rom by Pope Paul II?
Answer: Jews

Question: Where were some of the best-known traditions first recorded?
Answer: Italy

Question: What city's carnival was the most famous for a long time?
Answer: Venice

Question: What was the first place in North America with a Carnival tradition?
Answer: New France

Question: What were rabbis from the ghettos forced to march through the city streets wearing?
Answer: foolish guise

Question: Who dismissed the petition of the Jewish community to stop the abuse of them?
Answer: Pope Gregory XVI

Question: What nationality were the settlers from who introduced Carnival?
Answer: Portuguese

Question: How many of the inhabited islands is Carnival celebrated on?
Answer: nine

Question: Three groups in São Nicolau make use of fire in the construction of what conveyance? 
Answer: a painted float

Question: What do groups in Mindelo challenge each other for?
Answer: a yearly prize

Question: Over how many days is São Nicolau's Carnival celebrated? 
Answer: three

Question: What is the only state in India in which Carnival is celebrated?
Answer: Goa

Question: What does the Indian word "Intruz" mean?
Answer: swindler

Question: The largest Carnival celebration takes place in which city?
Answer: Panjim

Question: What is eaten on Fat Tuesday to partake in the celebration?
Answer: crepes

Question: What legendary king eventually takes over the state?
Answer: Momo

Question: Whose Carnival is known local as Cwarmê?
Answer: Malmedy

Question: Despite being located in East Belgium, Malmedy's Carnival harks purely to what area?
Answer: Latin

Question: How many days does Malmedy's festival take place before Shrove Tuesday?
Answer: 4

Question: Where can all the traditional costumes be seen parading on the Sunday of the festival?
Answer: in the street

Question: What do disguised people pass through during the festival?
Answer: the crowd

Question: What do some Belgian cities hold during Lent?
Answer: Carnivals

Question: What Carnival takes place on Laetare Sunday?
Answer: the Carnival de la Laetare

Question: What group of participants attack bystanders with confetti and dried pig bladders?
Answer: Blancs-Moussis

Question: What day does the town of Halle engage in its celebration?
Answer: Laetare Sunday

Question: What's the name of Belgium's oldest parade? 
Answer: Carnival Parade of Maaseik

Question: Many towns in what region of Croatia observe the Carnival period?
Answer: Kvarner

Question: What does every Kvarner town burn just before the end of the Carnival?
Answer: a man-like doll

Question: Who is blamed for all the strife of the previous year?
Answer: Jure Piškanac

Question: What does the head regalia of the bell-ringers represent?
Answer: their areas of origin

Question: What is the traditional Carnival food?
Answer: fritule

Question: How long has Carnival been celebrated?
Answer: centuries

Question: Under whose rule was Carnival established in the 16th century?
Answer: Venetian

Question: Dionysus was a deity in whose tradition? 
Answer: Greek

Question: In what century did the Carnival become an organized event?
Answer: twentieth

Question: What city almost exclusively celebrates the Carnival?
Answer: Limassol

Question: How many parades take place during Carnival?
Answer: Three

Question: Who rides through the city on a carriage?
Answer: the "Carnival King

Question: Which of the festivals is comprised of participants who are mainly children?
Answer: The second

Question: What do people walk along the town's longest avenue in?
Answer: costume

Question: Who are the last two parades open for participation by?
Answer: anyone who wishes to participate

Question: Where did students in Norway originally see the celebrations?
Answer: Paris

Question: Where did the artist federation hold their annual balls?
Answer: in the old Freemasons lodge

Question: Who composed the song "Karneval in Paris"?
Answer: Johan Svendsens

Question: What organization has produced annual masquerade balls in Oslo since 1988?
Answer: Tårnseilerne

Question: When do the processions occur after?
Answer: an opera performance

Question: Which Carnival is held in Germany's west?
Answer: The "Rheinische"

Question: Cologne Carnival is one of the largest Carnivals and also is the most what?
Answer: famous

Question: What is colloquially known as Old Women Day?
Answer: Nürnberg. On Carnival Thursday

Question: Who revolted in 1824?
Answer: washer-women

Question: What are the women who stormy city halls allowed to do to any passing man?
Answer: kiss

Question: What is the Greece Carnival also called?
Answer: the Apokriés

Question: What does the Opening of the Triodion derive from?
Answer: the liturgical book used by the church

Question: What is one of the festival season's high points?
Answer: Tsiknopempti

Question: What types of dinners do people enjoy during the season's high point?
Answer: roast beef

Question: What do people engage in after they've disguised themselves?
Answer: pranks and revelry

Question: Who holds an annual Phallus festival?
Answer: Tyrnavos

Question: What are the giant, gaudily painted effigies of phalluses made of?
Answer: papier maché

Question: What are women rewarded with for kissing the giant phalluses?
Answer: a shot of the famous local tsipouro alcohol spirit

Question: What is the ancient celebration for?
Answer: nature's rebirth

Question: In what square do the bands all play at once?
Answer: Ntoltso

Question: In what provinces is the Carnival mainly celebrated in the Netherlands?
Answer: southern

Question: Dutch Carnaval is celebrated until which Wednesday?
Answer: Ash

Question: What vary from town to town in regards to the Carnival?
Answer: traditions