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100

All the books in your local library (and any other type of media they have to lend out) have their own code of letters and numbers. If you look the code up in the library catalog, you can find out where the book is located. What is the name of this identifier?

Call Number

100

Emma Boettcher is a University of Chicago Librarian who became nationally famous after a 2019 appearance on what television show?

Jeopardy!

100

Featuring the classic character of Miss Marple, "The Body in the Library" is a detective novel by what British author?

Agatha Christie

100

Stonehead McGurney and Sir Harry the Muse are owls in what colorfully-named fantasy novel series by Brian Jacques?

Redwall

100

A book about the mysteries surrounding The Bermuda Triangle would be in which numerical section?

001-099. Generalities

200

Famously burned by Julius Caesar, one of the greatest libraries of the ancient world was founded in the third century BC in what Egyptian city?

Alexandria

200

With more than three million volumes in its collection, the Broward County Library System is considered one of the 25 largest systems in the U.S. In what state would you find these libraries?

Florida

200

Released by author Susan Orlean in 2018, "The Library Book" is a nonfiction account of a catastrophic fire that occurred in April 1986 in the public library of what West Coast American city?
 

Los Angeles

200

A young boy takes a train to the North Pole on Christmas Eve in what classic 1985 children's book by Chris Van Allsburg?

The Polar Express

200

To read about Prisoner of War camps during World War Two, look here.

900-999.  Geography and History

300

What Washington DC building is the largest library in the United States, holding almost twice as many volumes as the second-largest?
 

Library of Congress

300

Which president has their presidential library located in Atlanta, Georgia in a facility that features a replica of the oval office?

Jimmy Carter

300

"Agnes Grey" and "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" are the only two novels by an English author who was the younger sister of Charlotte and Emily Brontë. What was her first name?

Anne (Brontë)

300

The winner of the 1994 Newbery Medal was ranked as the fourth best children's novel of all time by a 2012 US survey. What is this Lois Lowry-penned book which centers on protagonist Jonas's apprenticeship as his community's "Receiver of Memory?"

The Giver

300

You have an English essay to finish, and need a book of literary criticism to help you finish it. Quick, where will you find one?

800-899. Literature

400

Between 1883 and 1929, what Scottish-American titan of the steel industry funded more than 2,500 libraries bearing his name?

Andrew Carnegie

400

The Imagination Library is a free children's book gifting program started by what famous singer in 1995? The program started by offering a monthly book to each child in Sevier County, Tennessee regardless of family income.
 

Dolly Parton

400

What Shakespearean play, in which two couples wind up marrying, coined a modern day term for an unnecessary dispute?

Much Ado About Nothing

400

The town of Pepin, Wisconsin is home to a museum honoring what author of the Little House books, most famously "Little House on the Prairie"?

Laura Ingalls Wilder

400

If you want to read up on infectious diseases, look here.

600-699. Applied Science

500

The Bodleian Library is the main research library of which famous university? There is evidence of teaching at this university as early as 1096.

University of Oxford

500

"At the Library" is the first song from the first full-length album by what "colorful" band who's better known for hits like "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and "American Idiot?"

Green Day

500

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library" is a quote from what Argentine writer of "Ficciones" and "El Aleph?"

Jorge Luis Borges

500

What British author wrote the classic 1979 children's novel "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?"

 

Roald Dahl

500

You want to learn more about the Hindu religion. Where do you look?

200-299. Religion

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