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Library Trivia (answers below)

1. Which of the following films does NOT feaure a librarian?

a) The Mummy

b) Desk Set

c) The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag

d) Notting Hill

2. Which columnist conducted the famous Librarians and Sex Survey?

a) Herbert White

b) Will Manley

c) Roy Tennant

3. Who is the 20th-century U.S. President whose oldest son married a librarian?

a) Jimmy Carter

b) Gerald R. Ford

c) George Bush

4. Which song includes these lyrics: "Seems like she forgot all about the library that she told her old man now?"

a) The Beach Boys, "Fun Fun Fun"

b) The Beach Boys, "Help Me, Rhonda"

c) The Beach Boys, "I Get Around"

5. There are more librarians in the United States than there are McDonald's.

a) True

b) False

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6. Which of the following is not one of the Five Laws of Library Science by S. R. Ranganathan?

a) Books are for use

b) Every person his or her book

c) Every book, its reader

d) Save the time of the reader

e) A library is a growing organism

f) Books are for collecting

7. The most famous library of ancient times was:

a) The Alexandrian Library in Alexandria, Egypt

b) The Octavian Library in Rome

c) The Athens Library in Greece

8. "Incunabula" refers to:

a) Books printed before 1501

b) Toys and games for small children in libraries

c) Bunnicula's best friend

9. In which Anne Rice Novel does the protagonist muse that "A library was something I could understand. It was the one place in which I still felt the measure of my old sanity"?

a) Interview with the Vampire

b) The Feast of All Saints

c) The Vampire Lestat

10. In 1972, the Librarians Anti-Defamation League was founded in New York City to protest an ad depicting librarians as old bats. What national food company was responsible for the ad?

a) Nabisco Company

b) Kellogg Company

c) Campbell's Soup Company

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11. What gold-plated award was named after librarian Margaret Herrich's uncle?

a) The Oscar

b) The Newbery

c) The Caldecott

12. Before the adoption of the Dewey Decimal System, many librarians filed books by:

a) size or color

b) copyright dates

c) title

13. Who said, "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read"?

a) Mark Twain

b) Groucho Marx

c) Will Rogers

14. In Black Boy (1954), Richard Wright describes how her persuaded a white Irish Catholic to get books for him from the Memphis Public Library, which did not serve blacks. Which author was Wright determined to read?

a) H.L. Mencken

b) Sojourner Truth

c) Harriet Beecher Stowe

15. In which novel would you find a character saying this: "I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library"?

a) The Great Gatsby

b) on the Road

c) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Library Trivia Answers (Questions above)

1. d, Notting Hill - Whole Library Handbook 2
2. b, Will Manley - Was printed in Library Journal
3. c, George Bush - Whole Library Handbook 2
4. a, "Fun, fun, fun" - Whole Library Handbook 2
5. a, True - Quotable facts, ALA mini-brochures
6. f, Books are for collecting - Whole Library Handbook 2
7. a, Alexandrian Library - World Book Encyclopedia
8. a, Books printed before 1501 - World Book Encyclopedia
9. c, The Vampire Lestat - Whole Library Handbook 2
10. b, Nabisco Company - Whole Library Handbook 2
11. a, The Oscar - Whole Library Handbook 2
12. b, Indiana - Carnegia Libraries Across America
13. b, Groucho Marx - Whole Library Handbook 2
14. a, H.L. Mencken- Whole Library Handbook 2
15. a, The Great Gatsby - Whole Library Handbook 2