Question: What is consumed on Ash Wednesday?
Answer: herring

Question: What is dutch for "Peasant Wedding"?
Answer: boerenbruiloft

Question: How long has the Strumica Carnival been going on?
Answer: since at least 1670

Question: What nationality was Evlija Chelebija?
Answer: Turkish

Question: Who ran from house to house, laughing, screaming, and singing?
Answer: masked people

Question: What day is the main Carnival Night observed on?
Answer: Tuesday

Question: What year was the Festival of Caricatures and Aphorisms added to Strumica's Carnival celebrations?
Answer: 2000

Question: What countryside has multiple groups and individuals in disguise?
Answer: Slovenian

Question: Kurent is monstrous and demon-like, but also what?
Answer: fluffy

Question: Where is the most significant Slovenian festival held?
Answer: Ptuj

Question: Who are magical creatures from another world?
Answer: the Kurents

Question: What do the Kurents try to banish?
Answer: winter

Question: The chirigotas, choirs and comparsas are the most famous of what?
Answer: groups

Question: What do the chirigotas sing about?
Answer: politics, new times and household topics

Question: How long does it take for a chirigota to prepare their costume?
Answer: the whole year

Question: Which group rides around in open carts through the streets?
Answer: The Choirs

Question: Who has the most elaborated polyphony?
Answer: The comparsas

Question: Where do people dress in masks and costume?
Answer: Catalonia

Question: What are raced as part of the festivities? 
Answer: bed

Question: What is Cantalonian for Eternal Prince of Cuckoldry?
Answer: Princep etern de Cornudella

Question: Who has a lovely breast?
Answer: Marquès

Question: Who is upon the bed?
Answer: the Artist of Honor

Question: Who oversees the period of reckless behavior?
Answer: The King

Question: What is the ritual procession through the town to call everyone to attendance called?
Answer: cercavila

Question: Fat Thursday is also known as what day?
Answer: omelette day

Question: Who is typically burned on a pyre?
Answer: King Carnival

Question: When may conventional social rules be broken?
Answer: a period of misrule

Question: What city's carnival has documented history from 1790?
Answer: Vilanova i la Geltrú

Question: What do the Vilanovins mock the media friendly Carnivals as being about?
Answer: "thighs and feathers"

Question: In what dance do the participants lob more than 75 tons of hard candy at each other?
Answer: Les Comparses

Question: What do dancers lampoon in the ritual heralding the coming of King Carnival?
Answer: current events or public figures

Question: What's the name of the day-long agenda of eating and fighting with meringue?
Answer: Merengada

Question: What sort of battle do the adults have at midnight?
Answer: meringue

Question: Who throws insults at the crowd?
Answer: the Xerraire

Question: What behavior scandalizes the town?
Answer: sexual

Question: Who creates sparks and explosions?
Answer: ritual crew of devils

Question: Who is the children's King?
Answer: Caramel

Question: What do people dress in for the King's funeral?
Answer: elaborate mourning costume

Question: Who carries floral arrangements of penis-like veggies?
Answer: cross-dressing men

Question: Who weeps around the body of the King?
Answer: concubines

Question: What type of eulogy is provided for the King?
Answer: satiric

Question: What ritual suggests symbolic cannibalism?
Answer: communion

Question: What is one of the longest free events in the streets?
Answer: Carnaval de Solsona

Question: How long can the nightly concerts run for?
Answer: more than a week

Question: What was a donkey hung from according to local legend?
Answer: the tower bell

Question: How does the donkey piss on the crowd below?
Answer: water pump

Question: What does "matarrucs" mean?
Answer: donkey killers

Question: What do the events of Tarragona start with?
Answer: building of a huge barrel

Question: On what day does the main parade take place?
Answer: Saturday

Question: What are the clothing of the Carnival groups full of?
Answer: elegance

Question: Who has one of the most complete ritual agendas?
Answer: Tarragona

Question: About how many people are members of the various parade groups?
Answer: 5,000

Question: What contagiously throbs during the week of events?
Answer: music

Question: How long does Aruba's biggest celebration last?
Answer: a month

Question: What type of costumes play a central role in the Queen elections?
Answer: flamboyant

Question: What continues in various districts throughout the month of the Carnival?
Answer: Street parades

Question: When is King Mom symbolically burnt?
Answer: On the evening before Lent

Question: What is the Carnival known as in Barbados?
Answer: Crop Over

Question: Where did the festival in Barbados originate from?
Answer: sugar cane plantations

Question: What year did Crop Over begin?
Answer: 1688

Question: What activity is done using a greased pole?
Answer: climbing

Question: What is the finale of Crop Over called?
Answer: The Grand Kadooment

Question: What type of competition is a major feature of the festival?
Answer: calypso

Question: Where did Calypso music originate?
Answer: Trinidad

Question: Who perform biting social commentaries?
Answer: musicians

Question: What do the musical groups compete for?
Answer: the Calypso Monarch Award

Question: What is the climax of the festival called?
Answer: Kadooment Day

Question: What's the name of the vehicle where the musicians play?
Answer: a Carrosa

Question: What do devotees follow during a particular religious celebration?
Answer: a given saint or deity

Question: Who are usually included the group comparsa?
Answer: notable men from the community

Question: What is used in some of the festive fights?
Answer: flour

Question: What is the goal of the Carnival painters?
Answer: to paint as many people as you can

Question: What year did the Carnival start in Haiti?
Answer: 1804

Question: What event precipitated the Carnival starting in Haiti?
Answer: declaration of independence

Question: What is the Carnival known as in the Creole language?
Answer: Kanaval

Question: What type of bands play for dancers in the streets?
Answer: kompa

Question: What type of annual competition takes place during Kanavel?
Answer: song

Question: When does  Dirty Mas take place on the Monday before Ash Wednesday?
Answer: before dawn

Question: What do the costumes worn by the revelers pun about?
Answer: current affairs,

Question: What is "Clean Mud"?
Answer: clay

Question: What are "jab-jabs"?
Answer: devils

Question: How are the King and Queen of J'ouvert chosen?
Answer: based on their witty political/social messages

Question: On what day is full costume worn?
Answer: Carnival Tuesday

Question: What is usually worn on the feet to compliment the costumes?
Answer: "Mas Boots"

Question: What does each band base their costume presentation on?
Answer: theme

Question: What do the mas bands eventually converge on?
Answer: the Queen's Park Savannah

Question: Who gets to be crowned Road March King or Queen?
Answer: The singer of the most played song

Question: About how many cities and towns in Mexico is Carnival celebrated in?
Answer: 225

Question: What contributes to the variations of the celebrations in the rural areas?
Answer: level of European influence

Question: Where do people take part in mock combat with blank shooting rifles?
Answer: Huejotzingo, Puebla

Question: What is the mock combat roughly based on?
Answer: the Battle of Puebla

Question: Morelos, Oaxaca, Tlaxcala and Chiapas are important states which also have their own what?
Answer: local traditions

Question: What does Mardi Gras translate to in French?
Answer: Fat Tuesday

Question: Where was Mardi Gras first celebrated?
Answer: Gulf Coast area

Question: What originated in the onetime French colonial capitals?
Answer: Customs