Question: What has been part of the celebrations for many years?
Answer: street parades and masked balls

Question: Washington, D.C. and Galveston, Texas are some major American cities which have what?
Answer: celebrations

Question: Which borough of New York City is Carnival celebrated in?
Answer: Brooklyn

Question: What American holiday is Carnival celebrated on?
Answer: Labor Day

Question: What country has one of the largest Caribbean Carnivals?
Answer: Trinidad

Question: Over how many people typically attend New York's version of the Carnival?
Answer: one million

Question: What neighborhood as the privilege of bearing the brunt of the festivities?
Answer: Crown Heights

Question: Which Carnival in Argentina is the most representative of the nature of the Carnival?
Answer: Murga

Question: What city in the east of Entre Rios province is considered the most important one for the Carnival?
Answer: Gualeguaychú

Question: What kind of tradition does the city of Corrientes have?
Answer: Carnival

Question: What is Chamame?
Answer: popular musical style.

Question: Where is Carnival celebrated? 
Answer: In all major cities and many towns throughout the country

Question: Which Carnival takes place in Oruro in Bolivia?
Answer: La Diablada

Question: Who is the miners' patron saint?
Answer: Vírgen de Socavon

Question: Over how many parade groups participate in the festivities? 
Answer: 50

Question: How many hours a day does the parade run?
Answer: 18

Question: What does the tropical weather on the east side of Bolivia allow?
Answer: a Brazilian-type Carnival

Question: How many members do Samba Schools have?
Answer: thousands

Question: How much does a Samba costume typically run an average tourist to buy?
Answer: $500–950

Question: What's the name for small, somewhat random groups of people with a definite theme in their samba?
Answer: Blocos

Question: About how many Samba schools are in Rio?
Answer: 30

Question: How much money in US dollars did the Carnival industry make in 2012?
Answer: 1 billion

Question: Where did the Carnival gestate out of the purview of rules?
Answer: in small/unimportant towns

Question: How many days does the non-stop festival go?
Answer: six

Question: The uninterrupted celebration of Carnival festivals in Barranquilla is now recognized as what?
Answer: one of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity

Question: Who rejected attempts to introduce the Carnival in Bogotá?
Answer: the government

Question: Where are the most famed Carnival festivities?
Answer: Guaranda (Bolivar province) and Ambato (Tungurahua province

Question: What are the festivities known as in Ambato?
Answer: Fiesta de las Flores y las Frutas

Question: Where has a celebration recently gained acclaim?
Answer: Imbabura

Question: What is there a large population of in the Chota Valley?
Answer: afro-Ecuadorian

Question: What music is the Carnival celebrated with in the Chota Valley?
Answer: bomba del chota

Question: What is a tradition unique to the Creole people?
Answer: touloulous

Question: Why are Touloulous given free condoms?
Answer: in the interest of the sexual health

Question: What do men have to do to be allowed into the balls?
Answer: pay admittance

Question: What are the touloulous' dance partners not allowed to do?
Answer: refuse

Question: Why do the women drink through a straw? 
Answer: protect their anonymity

Question: What does the Peruvian Carnival incorporate elements of?
Answer: violence

Question: Why are the festivals in Peru held when they are?
Answer: because it is the rainy season

Question: When did the festivities acquire their violent tendencies?
Answer: second half of the 20th century

Question: What is an element of Peruvian's Carnival not found in any other country's celebrations?
Answer: sexual assaults on women

Question: How many years in prison can someone expect for being violent during the fun and games?
Answer: eight

Question: How many days does the Carnival in Uruguay last for?
Answer: more than 40

Question: What parade style does Uruguay's festival ape?
Answer: European

Question: What were the stylistic elements of the parade imported with in colonial times?
Answer: slaves

Question: What are the main attractions of the Uruguayan Carnival?
Answer: two colorful parades

Question: What is summoned by the Desfile de Llamadas parade?
Answer: candombe

Question: What are built in many places through the cities?
Answer: tablados

Question: What do the different Carnival groups perform together?
Answer: opera

Question: What do the topics of the shows put on at the tablados typically relate to?
Answer: the social and political situation

Question: What type of rhythmic figures are performed by the drummers playing the tamboril?
Answer: candombe

Question: What sort of touch do the vedettes provide to the parades?
Answer: sensual

Question: What is the difference between a pesticide and a plant protection product?
Answer: pesticides are also used for non-agricultural purposes

Question: What is the purpose of a pesticide?
Answer: Pesticides are substances meant for attracting, seducing, and then destroying any pest

Question: What are pesticides most commonly used for?
Answer: The most common use of pesticides is as plant protection products

Question: What can pesticides protect plants from?
Answer: protect plants from damaging influences such as weeds, fungi, or insects

Question: What item commonly used in hospitals, schools and offices is a pesticide?
Answer: sanitizer

Question: What are three pests pesticides target?
Answer: plant pathogens, weeds, mollusks

Question: Are pesticides chemical or biological agents?
Answer: a pesticide is a chemical or biological agent

Question: What are possible cons of pesticides?
Answer: potential toxicity to humans and other species

Question: What are pesticides meant to prevent?
Answer: destroy property, cause nuisance, or spread disease, or are disease vectors

Question: What is one way to group pesticides?
Answer: chemical structure

Question: Give three examples of target organisms of pesticides.
Answer: herbicides, insecticides, fungicides

Question: What are the two types of biopesticides?
Answer: microbial pesticides and biochemical pesticides

Question: Which type of pesticides have seen rapid growth in development?
Answer: Plant-derived pesticides, or "botanicals

Question: Organochlorine hydrocarbons effect what balance of the nerve fiber?
Answer: sodium/potassium

Question: Why was the use of organochlorine hydrocarbons ended?
Answer: because of their persistence and potential to bioaccumulate

Question: What type of herbicide selectively kills broad leef weeds?
Answer: Phenoxy compounds

Question: What essential plan funtion is interrupted by triazines?
Answer: photosynthesis

Question: Organophospates and carbamates cause which symptoms?
Answer: weakness or paralysis

Question: What is one way you could group pesticides?
Answer: application method

Question: What is the main way that peticides perform their function?
Answer: by poisoning pests

Question: In which direction do systemic pesticide generally travel through a plant?
Answer: movement is usually upward

Question: Which parts of a plant do systemic pesticides generally attack?
Answer: pollen and nectar in the flowers

Question: Pesticides can be used to stop the spread of what dieseases?
Answer: West Nile virus, yellow fever, and malaria

Question: What sort of pesticides would you find in ponds and lakes?
Answer: Herbicides

Question: Which agency regulates safety of pesticides in the US?
Answer: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Question: Which agency regulates safety of pesticides in Canada?
Answer: Pest Management Regulatory Agency

Question: What kind of pesticide is DDT?
Answer: an organochlorine

Question: Why have DDTs been banned in some areas?
Answer: persistence in the environment and human toxicity