Each week, Dave Hoerlein, tour guide and map maker for Rick Steves' guidebooks, creates a "mystery image" for the staff here at Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door to unearth. We've been having such fun with Dave's quiz that we thought we'd invite you to play along, too. (Come back every month for a new quiz.) Do you know where in the world these photos come from?
1. Are these archways:
found in Aosta, the "Rome of the North," located in northwest Italy?
an example of Roman arches in Leptis Magna, Libya (with a Tripoli tower in the distance)?
part of the second-century B.C. walls of Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city?
the ancient "golden arches" inspiration for America's fast-food pioneers?
2. Is this a scene of:
the harbor at Antibes, France, thirty years ago, before its current redevelopment?
Israel's northern coastal plain, near Haifa Bay?
Hydra (Idra), Greece, south of Athens, where the only transportation is by donkey power?
Atlantis' yacht club?
3. Is this head:
a renegade ancient Egyptian artifact that fell off of its base in Brussels?
a giant sculpture by Henry de Miller outside of the church of Saint-Eustache in Paris?
a piece by Henry Moore, located in a courtyard outside of London's Tate Modern museum?
a five-foot tall statue found in the capital of Lilliput?
4. Is this meal:
a sampling from a Scandinavian smörgåsbord?
the famed Spanferkel, or grilled-pig dish (with sides), from Bavaria, Germany?
choucroute garni, the signature dish of the Alsace region of France?
from PETA's annual board meeting?
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