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Sheer exuberance blended with fantastic costume craftsmanship at the annual Caracol festival this weekend in Makati City in the Philippines. The event, which is dedicated to extending environmental awareness, took 'Save Mother Earth' as its theme this year prompting a fantastically colourful parade of participants dressed as endangered animals, tress, butterflies, birds, flowers and fruits. To celebrate the human urge to, well em, celebrate that festivals encapsulate, we pose a series of questions concerning a number of the most spectacular of such gatherings from around the world in today's Highly Questionable quiz.    

Festivals Quiz

In which city do each of the following celebrated festivals take place:-

 1  Fiesta de San Fermin? - Spanish nine day long sangria party punctuated by early morning adrenalin fuelled bull runs for the bravely fleet of foot and the merely foolhardy. 

 2  Oktoberfest? - German bacchanalian fortnight dedicated to the celebration and full-blooded consumption of beer.

 3  Carnival? - Italian otherworldly mask wearing theatrical extravaganza in the ten days running up to Shrove Tuesday.

 4  Mardi Gras? - French and Creole customs mesh with the spectacularly wonderful and breathtakingly weird on what is apparently American soil.  

 5  Naadam? - Mongolian three day gathering featuring a range of 'manly sports' in what is one of the oldest surviving events on the planet. 

Answers will be published along with tomorrow's quiz.

Heart Quiz Answers
The answers to yesterday's heart themed quiz are:-

 1  'Harvest' was the landmark Neil Young album which featured the celebrated song 'Heart Of Gold'.

 2  Richard I was the name of the twelfth century English king who had the nickname of Lionheart.

 3  'Apocalypse Now' was the name of the Palme d'Or winning film that was inspired by Joseph Conrad's novella 'Heart Of Darkness'.

 4  South African was the nationality of the late cardiac surgeon Christiaan Barnard, who in 1967 completed the first human heart transplant. 

 5  Cupid is the character from Roman mythology who is commonly depicted in contemporary popular culture as an archer firing amorous arrows into a heart.
The author of the Highly Questionable? quiz and trivia blog, Harry Reid, is a freelance question setter, writer and blogger. He can be contacted at harryreid@btinternet.com.