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Potpourri
100

As of 2022, this organization accredits 64 master’s degree programs in library and information science.

What is ALA?

100

When separating books by content, all books can fall into either of these two categories.

What are fiction and nonfiction?

100

A cup of coffee can also be referred to by this name.

What is a cup of joe?

100

In “The Day After Tomorrow” (2004), a series of extreme weather events ushers in a new one of these, which shares its name with a 2002 animated film.

What is an ice age?

100

This latest film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ acclaimed series tells the story of the 10th Hunger Games.

What is “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”?

200

This nation’s military burned down the first Library of Congress in 1814.

What is Great Britain?

200

A list of books is known as this.

What is a bibliography?

200

These stringed instruments are featured heavily in folk music.

What are banjoes?

200

Known for his roles in “October Sky” and “Brokeback Mountain,” this nepo baby plays Dennis Quaid’s son in “The Day After Tomorrow” (2004).

Who is Jake Gyllenhaal?

200

This twisty baked good has been in use as an emblem of bakers, and formerly their guilds, in southern German areas since at least the 12th century.

What is a pretzel?

300

The first U.S. library school was founded in 1887 at this Ivy League university.

What is Columbia University?

300

Publishers may produce low-cost, pre-publication copies of books for promotion, known as 'bound proofs' or by this other name.

What is a galley?

300

These baby animals grow up to be high jumpers and heavy hitters that live in Australia.

What are joeys?

300

Sam and his friends brave the winter storm in “The Day After Tomorrow” (2004) in this iconic location, a target of NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ budget cuts.

What is the New York Public Library?

300

At 10 episodes, the upcoming 20th season of this medical drama will be its shortest since its first season, which aired as a mid-season replacement in 2005.

What is “Grey’s Anatomy”?

400

This New England state is home to the U.S.’s first taxpayer-supported public library.

What is New Hampshire?

400

This term refers to cultural diversity in publishing. The 21st of September was declared by independent publishers "___ Day."

What is bibliodiversity?

400

This American chain of grocery stores is headquartered in Monrovia, California.

What is Trader Joe's?

400

This phenomenon of rising water associated with low-pressure weather systems plagues New York City in “The Day After Tomorrow” (2004).

What is a storm surge?

400

This portmanteau can either refer to a foolish, silly person or a barbiturate.

What is a goofball?

500

The earliest recognized libraries date back 5,000 years, though their collections were not made from paper, but this material.

What is clay? (clay tablets)

500

Books printed between 1850 and 1950 are primarily at risk for this phenomenon, which degrades paper from within. (Limestone rollers used to neutralize this before 1850.)

What is acidification?

500

In the AMC drama “Halt and Catch Fire,” Gordon Clark and this business partner hire a librarian as their search engine company’s chief ontologist.

Who is Joe MacMillan?

500

The new president of the United States takes to this apt cable channel after the events of “The Day After Tomorrow” (2004) to apologize for not believing in climate change.

What is The Weather Channel?

500

This type of banana is the origin of banana flavor used for candy. It was decimated by Panama disease before being replaced by the modern, less flavorful, Cavendish banana.

What is the Gros Michel?

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