Theatrical Providers
Out of Control Vocab
History of Libraries
Fictional Librarians
100

Dr. Meredith Grey appeared in this popular television show.

What is Grey's Anatomy?

100

This standardized set of subject headings is used to organize the literature in PubMed with specific topics that can be searched on.

What is MeSH, or Medical Subject Headings?

100

Ships harboring in the city where this ancient library once stood were compelled to hand over all texts on board to the library, only receiving copies in return.

What is the Great Library of Alexandria?

100

The Librarian, through a magical accident in the Discworld, was turned into this type of primate.

What is an orangutan?

200

Dr. Leonard McCoy goes by this osseous nickname.

What is Bones?

200

Public libraries have historically used this numerical classification system that is built around ten main classes of three-digit numbers to organize their print collections.

What are Dewey codes?

200

Now located in Bethesda, Maryland, this collection had its beginning in the office of the U.S. Army Surgeon General in 1836.

What is the National Library of Medicine (NLM)?

200

This librarian often placed hexes and jinxes on the books in the library of Britain's famous magical school to keep students from damaging them.

Who is Madam Irma Pince?

300

This neurosurgeon's career took an unexpected turn after he suffered severe hand injuries.

Who is Dr. Strange?

300

Potentially the most widely adopted set of subject headings in the world, this indexing language was developed in 1898 to catalog materials for the national library of the United States.

What are Library of Congress Subject Headings?

300

This technology, originally developed in China, made possible the fast creation of multiple tomes.

What is movable type printing?

300

This librarian often caused chaos, knocking over shelves of tomes on Egyptology and reading aloud from the Book of the Dead.

Who is Evelyn (Evie) O'Connell?

400

In the classic stop-motion animation "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer", the misfit elf Hermey fulfills his dream of becoming a dentist when he helps this creature with their toothache.

What is the Abominable Snowman?

400

This subject heading system, used by Embase, includes medical, life science, and drug terms arranged in a hierarchy that resembles the plant for which the system is named.

What is Emtree?

400

This huge collection of manuscripts was recently digitized, preserving it and making accessible materials that were stored in a city that was long considered a byword for being far away in the middle of the desert.

What are the Timbuktu Manuscripts?

400

This River City librarian, who moonlighted as a piano teacher, was quick to identify traveling salesman Harold Hill as a fraud.

Who is Marian Paroo?

500

Carla Espinosa is the head nurse who keeps the residents in line at this hospital. 

What is the Sacred Heart Hospital?

500

Patterned after the Library of Congress call number system, this classification system covers the field of medicine and related sciences.

What is the National Library of Medicine (NLM) classification system?

500

Over 30,000 clay tablets from this library at Nineveh have been discovered, including the Epic of Gilgamesh.

What is the Library of Ashurbanipal?

500

This head librarian in a popular series of made-for-tv movies would actually be more accurately described as an archivist.

Who is Flynn Carsen?