| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| City with the largest Mardi Gras in the United States | New Orleans | 100%
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| City that hosts the world's largest carnival celebration | Rio de Janeiro | 82%
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| Notting Hill, a district of this city, is known for its multicultural carnival | London | 73%
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| Carnival is held in many cities on this river, such as Basel, Cologne and Rotterdam | Rhine | 73%
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| This city on the French riviera changed its parade route after a 2016 terror attack | Nice | 64%
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| This day after carnival heralds a period of abstinence | {Ash} Wednesday | 55%
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| The celebrations in this world region are linked with calypso music, steel drums, and limbo | Caribbean | 55%
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| Christian holiday that ends the period of abstinence | Easter Sunday | 55%
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| Name for the period of abstinence | Lent | 55%
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| These are famously worn during the Venice celebrations | Masks | 55%
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| Think hard: at what specific time does the carnival season officially begin in Cologne, on November 11th? | 11:11 a.m. | 45%
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| What does the French word Mardi Gras mean? | Fat Tuesday | 45%
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| The word "carnival" derives from a Latin expression, roughly meaning "get rid of ___" | Meat | 36%
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| The world's largest LGBT mardi gras is held in March, during this city's summer | Sydney | 27%
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| Roman festivity where social norms were turned upside down, named for a God | {Saturn}alia | 18%
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| What long piece of clothing do women cut off from men in a German tradition? | Their ties | 18%
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