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When is the official day of Carnival of 2017?

February 17

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Over 2 million people come out to the streets every day to celebrate the four day festival in this "marvellous" city...
Rio de Janiero
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People often wear on of these on their face to disguise their identity.
Mask
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The largest Carnival festival is now considered to be in this city of Spain.
Tenerife
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a float

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It is thought that Carnival means what in the original Latin?

"Farewell" and "meet"

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Carnival festival in this city is known for throwing beads of purple, gold, and green.
New Orleans - Mardi Gras
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It is common for participants to decorate this vehicle of a particular theme. Throwing candy, beads, and jewelry from it.
A float
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Keep an eye out for this tradition in Spain that normally closes the Carnival festival where a giant sardine is lit on fire.
The Burial of the Sardine (Entierro de la Sardina)
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Pancake Day! - Gezgin Anne  

Pancakes (Pancake Day UK - Tuesday Feb. 28)

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The Carnival season is a period of time before what?
Lent (40 days of restricting rich foods and offering repentance and prayer starting on Ash Wednesday)
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This carnival celebration is most known for its beautifully designed masks.
Carnivale di Venezia
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After Carnival concludes with the beginning of Ash Wednesday, Christians are supposed to do what?
Lent is the preparation of the believer through prayer, doing penance, repentance of sins, almsgiving, atonement, and self-denial of rich foods.
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Carnival in this city of Spain is known worldwide for its music.
Cadiz
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Carnival in Venice
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Carnival is typically a Reversal Ritual - meaning what?
Where social roles are reversed and norms about desired behavior are suspended.
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This Carnival is better known as Fat Tuesday.
Mardi Gras
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To masquerade means what?
To pretend to be someone that you are not
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Carnival is this small town in Catalyuña is famous and widely known by the GLTB population of Europe. Most famous for the drag queen shows.
Sitges
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Los Indianos festival (Santa Cruz, La Palma)
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The period of Carnival is historically known as Shrovetide, but the Romans were known to celebrate a festival called what?
Saturnalia
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Carnival in this town is one of the largest street fairs of the year in the whole of the United Kingdom.
Notting Hill Carnival
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During medieval times this city held the largest and most famous Carnival Festival, until Napoleon came along and banned the celebration.
City of Venice. The celebrations were only restored in 1979.
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Going to Carnival in this part of Spain you can get into a mud throwing fight or be chased by Os Peliqueiros who wear strange masks and try to hit you with a stick!
Laza (Galicia)
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Drag Queen