Land of the Midnight Sun Quiz

Safe to say, it’s cold up here!

Sastrugi are dunelike geographic features that can help you navigate your way to safety. These "dunes" are a good indicator of the main wind direction. For instance, on the windward side, sastrugi has a steeper bank whereas on the leeward side, there’s soft snow. If you follow the sastrugi, you should get to the coast since the wind blows inland from the sea.

In theory, this is true. Maybe if you were a member of the reindeer-hunting Sami tribe in a past life, it would improve your odds …

Bottom’s up, greenhorn! The blood is warm and protein-rich, so it is an ideal survival food in the Arctic Circle. The heart is just as, uh, good for you.

The origin of the word Eskimo is uncertain. While once widely believed to be true, the translation of Eskimo to mean "eater of raw meat" is considered by many anthropologists and native linguists to be a form of folk etymology, i.e., a linguistic urban legend. The most commonly accepted etymology among linguists is that Eskimo comes from the Montagnais word assime-w, which means "she laces a snowshoe" or "snowshoe-netter." Regardless, the term Eskimo is considered racist in Canada and Greenland, and in 1977, the Inuit Circumpolar Conference officially adopted "Inuit" as a designation for all Eskimos no matter the local usage of the term.

There are 4,500- to 5,000-year-old rock drawings of men on skis holding sticks at Rødøy and Steinkjer, in Norway. Archaeologists have also found 8,000-year-old remnants of skis in bogs in arctic Russia. It is probable that the earliest people to use skis were the distant ancestors of today’s Sami people. The word "ski" goes back to the Old Norse word skíð meaning "a stick of wood."

Get to work, snowbird. First, dig a trench, shaped like a coffin if you please. Next, gather branches to spread over the hole, then pile snow on top of the branches for added insulation. Last but certainly not least, dig a gutter in the bottom of the trench for the cold air to run down into.

It’s an old Inuit gimmick to make small fires around their fishing holes to attract the fish to the line. The principle is the same as lantern fishing in the Far East. The hope is that the fish will see the fire’s glow through the ice, come to check to out, and take the bait -- hook, line and sinker.

Birch bark is full of flammable sap, which makes starting a fire much faster.

The waters off the coast of Norway serve as one of the superhighways of commercial fisheries and are well-populated with fishing vessels. If you want to be rescued, you have to make it to the coast and be ready to build a big ol’ signal fire to attract attention should you see a boat.