I hope you had some fun with this Quiz. One thing that I really enjoy about traveling is seeing new things and having new experiences.

1. The people in the first photo are all in line and the line was at least a half block long. This was about 10 am. WHAT are they waiting in line for? Answer: ICE CREAM

These people are all standing in line to get into an ice cream parlor. We talked to many people about food on National Day and everyone told us that they eat hot dogs and ice cream, apparently even at 10am.

2. The second photo was in Trondheim and we were driving through a tunnel from our ship into town. What is the specific roadway feature inside this tunnel? Answer: A ROUNDABOUT

I had never heard of a roundabout in a tunnel before. I always thought that tunnels went from point A to point B. Not in Norway. Norway has multiple roundabouts inside tunnels.

3. All of our travel group was looking at the specific feature in the third photo that was in the town of Trondheim. What is this feature? Answer: A BICYCLE LIFT

Think like a “ski lift”, only for bicycle riders. Norwegians love to ski so I guess the idea of a “lift” has been transformed to bicyclers going up hills. You put in your money and a foot petal or foot rest comes up. You sit on your bike and put your foot on the rest and up the hill you go.

4. The Nidaros Cathedral is in the fourth photo. It is built over the burial site of King Olav II who became the patron saint of Norway. The cathedral was built from 1070 to 1300 but additions and renovations continued intermittently until 2001. The cathedral is covered with sculptures of both historic and religious figures. There are many stories behind the people and creatures immortalized in stone. At the very top of the north (left in photo) tower is the winged archangel Michael depicted fighting evil in the form of a dragon. Whose face was carved onto the archangel Michael? Answer: BOB DYLAN

The archangel Michael was evidently one of the more recent renovations. The carvers did not know what the archangel Michael looked like but needed a face to carve onto the statue. They chose Bob Dylan. Dylan was against nuclear power and against the Vietnam War, so that might have been part of the reasoning behind their choice of faces. Or, the carver was just a Bob Dylan fan.

5. The last photo was a selfie while we were cruising a relatively narrow fjord. What time of day was it when we took this photo? Answer: MIDNIGHT

We were well above the Arctic Circle and the sun was up 24 hours a day. You can see the sun on the top of the mountains behind us. The sun would have been lower if we were on flat ground but in the mountains, we could only see it up high. So this is the Midnight Sun.