How well do you know the USA’s biggest festivals?
Festivals are a brilliant way of exploring the USA’s history and disparate cultures. Test your knowledge of its biggest, oldest, quirkiest and most unique celebrations
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Question 1 of 12
Where can you party at the oldest Mardi Gras festival in the USA?
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Question 2 of 12
In February, the town of Alpine, Texas, hosts an annual festival in honour of which literary art form?
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Question 3 of 12
In March, Frozen Dead Guy Days in Estes Park, Colorado, celebrates the bizarre discovery in the town of a cryogenically frozen man in a shed. Which of these events will you not find at the festival?
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Question 4 of 12
Which of these US music festivals is the oldest, having first been held in 1959?
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Question 5 of 12
Which city holds the USA’s biggest Pride parade (with a record 2.5 million attendees)?
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Question 6 of 12
Anoka, Minnesota, claims to have been the first town in the USA to celebrate Halloween (in 1920). From which Celtic festival was Halloween derived?
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Question 7 of 12
Every September, Custer State Park in South Dakota holds a festival that features the round-up of some 1,300 of which animal?
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Question 8 of 12
Which US state – home to the highest concentration of International Dark Sky locations in the world – hosts Bryce Canyon Astronomy Festival?
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Question 9 of 12
Washington State’s Skagit Valley holds the USA’s largest festival of which flower in April?
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Question 10 of 12
Palm Springs in California hosts a week-long festival in February to mark the impact of which design movement on the town?
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Question 11 of 12
Which Midwestern city with German roots hosts the largest Oktoberfest in the USA?
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Question 12 of 12
