How well do you know spring festivals?
Spring sees the return of some of the year’s most incredible festivals and traditions. Can you banish the Böögg by completing our quiz?
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1. In Thailand, the water-soaked festival of Songkran is held across which national holiday in April?
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2. Held in the town of Zenica in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Čimburijada festival includes a communal meal of which food?
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3. On 12 May 2024, the Belgian city of Ypres hosts a triennial festival honouring what animal?
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4. April’s Kanamara Matsuri (or Festival of the Steel Phallus) takes place at a shrine in which Japanese city?
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5. Around 6 million tulips bloom in the run-up to May’s Tulip Time Festival in the city of Holland. In which US state can you find it?
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6. Which Swiss city hosts the burning of the Böögg – a straw effigy of a snowman-like creature that is packed with dynamite – in April?
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7. The Da Jiu festival on the Hong Kong island of Cheung Chau includes a competition where entrants climb a metal tower covered in which food item?
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8. The citizens of the Guatemalan city Antigua honour Semana Santa by crafting carpets mostly made from flowers, fruit and what other material?
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9. Cinco de Mayo (5 May) celebrates the 1862 victory by Mexico over France in a battle that took place in which Mexican city?
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10. Walpurgis Night (30 April) was said to be when witches gathered atop Brocken – the highest peak in which German range?
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11. Which traditional Scottish festival features a bonfire on Edinburgh’s Calton Hill on the night of 30 April?
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