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Libraries have been a part of human history for thousands of years, serving as a repository of knowledge and a source of learning for communities around the world. From the ancient libraries of Alexandria and Persepolis to modern-day public and academic libraries, libraries have been an essential part of our cultural heritage and have played a critical role in preserving and sharing knowledge.
Library trivia questions are a fun and engaging way to test your knowledge of libraries and their history. Whether you are a librarian, a library patron, or simply someone who loves books and learning, these questions will challenge you and help you to expand your understanding of libraries and their role in society.
Here are some examples of library trivia questions: What is the oldest library in the world? Who is considered the father of modern public libraries? When did the first library card catalog system appear? How many books are in the Library of Congress? What is the most borrowed book in the world? These questions and others like them will help you to develop a deeper understanding of the history of libraries and the important role that they play in promoting literacy, education, and cultural exchange.
1. Featuring the classic character of Miss Marple, "The Body in the Library" is a detective novel by what British author?
Answer: Agatha Christie
2. Between 1883 and 1929, what Scottish-American titan of the steel industry funded more than 2,500 libraries bearing his name?
Answer: Andrew Carnegie
3. What 10-letter word means "library" in at least three Romance languages, including Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish?
Answer: Biblioteca
4. Depicting a man on a ladder examining books in a library, the 19th-century Carl Spitzweg painting "Der Bücherwurm" has a title that translates to what in English?
Answer: The Bookworm
5. A young boy takes a train to the North Pole on Christmas Eve in what classic 1985 children's book by Chris Van Allsburg?
Answer: The Polar Express
6. Europe's largest library, the Library of Birmingham, has the 1623 First Folio of what playwright and poet with a whole memorial collection in the building?
Answer: William Shakespeare
7. 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?
Answer: Alexandria
8. "At the Library" is the first song from the first full-length album by what "colorful" band that’s better known for hits like "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and "American Idiot?"
Answer: Green Day
9. The "O" is for "Online" and the "C" is for "Catalog," but what do the "P" and "A" stand for in the acronym "OPAC"?
Answer: Public Access
10. The Bryant Park location of the New York Public Library features Patience and Fortitude, two large marble statues of what animal?
Answer: Lion
11. On the U.S. Library of Congress's list of "Books that Shaped America" is what 1830 religious text that sets out the tenets of a religion founded by Joseph Smith?
Answer: Book of Mormon
12. Notable for its striking rounded arches designed by architect Toyo Ito, the Tama Art University Library can be found in what world capital city?
Answer: Tokyo
13. First published in 1876 and named after its inventor, what is the name of the numeric system that many librarians use to shelve and categorize books by type?
Answer: Dewey Decimal System
14. Jerry learns he has a library fine for a book he checked out in 1971 and never returned in a Season 3 episode of what sitcom?
Answer: Seinfeld
15. The library of Des Plaines, Illinois's Maine North High School, which had been closed in 1981, was given a second life when it became the principal setting for what popular 1985 film?
Answer: The Breakfast Club
16. A popular interlibrary loan service is known by what name chosen to sound like one of Homer's most famous epic poems?
Answer: Illiad
17. Inmate Andy Dufresne takes over managing the prison library when his friend Brooks is paroled in what 1994 film starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman?
Answer: The Shawshank Redemption
18. Constructed as a chapter house supported by 16 flying buttresses, the Library of Parliament is a distinctive landmark in what Canadian capital city?
Answer: Ottawa
19. A large portion of what 2001 Yann Martel novel features the title character stranded on a lifeboat after a shipwreck with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker?
Answer: Life of Pi
20. A large and beautiful library is often the backdrop for Eliza Doolittle's elocution lessons with Professor Henry Higgins in what 1964 movie musical?
Answer: My Fair Lady
21. The original of what 1215 document, a cornerstone of British and American law, is one of the most famous holdings of the British Library?
Answer: Magna Carta
22. The Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum is located in what Texas town, also home to the University of Texas?
Answer: Austin
23. Used as one of the symbols of Ireland, the Library of Trinity College Dublin is home to a famous 29-stringed version of what instrument?
Answer: Harp
24. Candlekeep is a fortress holding hundreds of thousands of ancient books in the lore of what tabletop RPG that often involves twenty-sided dice?
Answer: Dungeons & Dragons
25. What Washington D.C. building is the largest library in the United States, holding almost twice as many volumes as the second-largest?
Answer: Library of Congress
26. 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.
Answer: Dolly Parton
27. What topic of non-fiction books are always found in the Dewey Decimal System starting with a 2?
Answer: Religion
28. Located in Copenhagen, the modern extensions of the Royal Library of what European country is nicknamed the “Black Diamond” because it’s made from dark, shiny, polished granite?
Answer: Denmark
29. In the film "The Mummy," Rachel Weisz plays Evy Carnahan, a librarian working in the library of a museum in which national capital?
Answer: Cairo
30. Which country’s national symbol, the Brian Boru harp, can be viewed at the Library of Trinity College?
Answer: Ireland
31. The Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, the world's largest architectural library, is located in what American city?
Answer: New York City
32. Established on May 27, 1795, as the Imperial Public Library by Catherine the Great, the National Library of Russia can be found in what city that was formerly named Petrograd and Leningrad?
Answer: Saint Petersburg
33. Fifty subscribers paid 40 shillings each to subscribe to one of the United States' first lending libraries, located in Philadelphia and founded by what founding father?
Answer: Benjamin Franklin
34. "The Cricket on the Hearth" is a holiday novel, not nearly as well known as "A Christmas Carol," by what British author?
Answer: Charles Dickens
35. What “A” term describes a summary of the content of another longer work? You will read a lot of them during library research, some perhaps about obtuse works of art.
Answer: Abstract
36. Which president has their presidential library located in Atlanta, Georgia, in a facility that features a replica of the Oval Office?
Answer: Jimmy Carter
37. The Bodleian Library is the main research library of which famous university? There is evidence of teaching at this university as early as 1096.
Answer: University of Oxford
38. Portugal's Joanina Library is famous for hosting a population of what type of flying wild animal, which are considered beneficial because they eat the insects that might damage books?
Answer: Bats
39. The British Library holds two complete copies of what incredibly valuable 15th-century edition of the Bible, the earliest major book to be mass-produced using movable metal type?
Answer: Gutenberg Bible
40. What British author wrote the classic 1964 children's novel "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?"
Answer: Roald Dahl
41. One of the largest public libraries in the world is La Biblioteca Nacional de España, located on the Paseo de Recoletos in what city?
Answer: Madrid
42. Protection of what right came within the purview of the Library of Congress in 1870, although it had been created by law in 1790? Prior to 1870, the right had been protected by the Federal District Courts.
Answer: Copyright
43. Prolific author Carl Hiaasen wrote more than a dozen humor-inflected novels dealing with crime, environmentalism, and political corruption in his native Florida. In 2002, he made his first foray into young adult fiction with what four-letter, owl-centric novel that was named a Newbery Medal honor book?
Answer: Hoot
44. The ladies of Amy Tan's "Joy Luck Club" meet to play what game with plum blossom and chrysanthemum tiles?
Answer: Mahjong
45. What series of massively popular books took "Top Prize" as the most commonly banned book by the American Library Association from 2000 to 2009?
Answer: Harry Potter
46. What 1938 Daphne Du Maurier novel is about a woman who marries a wealthy widower, only to find that he and his house are haunted by the titular dead wife’s memory? A movie adaptation directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Joan Fontaine won the Best Picture Oscar in 1940.
Answer: Rebecca
47. The legendary Library of Alexandria founded by Ptolemy II in the 3rd century BCE eventually came to house up to 40,000 scrolls made of what type of material?
Answer: Papyrus
48. If you want to read (or at least, get a glimpse of) the most beautiful book in the world, head to Trinity College in Dublin to see the Book of Kells. What European country is home to the tome?
Answer: Ireland
49. Every year, up to 25 "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" works are added to the Library of Congress's national registry of what?
Answer: Film
50. Nicknamed “The Eye” or sometimes “The Evil Eye” due to its impressive luminous central sphere, the Tianjin Binhai New Area Library is 363,000 square feet of more than 1.2 million books in which country?
Answer: China
51. Traveling salesman Harold Hill declares his love for Marian Paroo in the song "Marian the Librarian" in what classic Broadway musical?
Answer: The Music Man
52. There are two meter-wide Venetian globes on display at the Baroque Hapsburg-era national library found near the Albertina and the Stephansdom in the capital of which European country?
Answer: Austria
53. Named after the financier who established it, what New York City library holds three complete Gutenberg Bibles, the largest number in any single collection in the world?
Answer: Morgan Library
54. With a futuristic design evoking a giant eyeball, the Tianjin Binhai Library is an institution housing more than 1.2 million volumes in what country?
Answer: China
55. According to data from the ALA, there are a total of 105,451 libraries in what location that are domains of learning? This includes the public and private varieties.
Answer: School
56. Beginning in 1981, Republican senator Mack Mattingly led a failed campaign to force the U.S. Library of Congress from producing a braille version of what popular magazine?
Answer: Playboy
57. You’ll need more than a library card to visit Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana—you have to prove that you’re qualified and that you need to access materials for your research. If you’ve got that all sorted, what holy microstate will you have to travel to if you want to view the ancient collections?
Answer: Vatican City
58. You probably won't find books on Keto or Atkins at Japan's national library, even though it's named for what four-letter legislative body?
Answer: Diet
59. Code-switching and police violence are major themes in what 2017 young-adult novel by Angie Thomas?
Answer: The Hate U Give
60. Considered one of Ireland's greatest cultural treasures, the Book of Kells is a 9th-century illuminated manuscript held in the library of what Dublin institution of higher learning?
Answer: Trinity College
61. McAllen, Texas is home to largest single-story public library in the nation, a 123,000-sq. ft. building that used to be what ubiquitous chain?
Answer: Walmart
62. Although the Library of Congress has long produced braille versions of popular works, in 1986 a group of Republican senators briefly pressured the Library to cease production of braille editions what specific magazine?
Answer: Playboy
63. When she's not working at Gotham City Public Library, comic book character Barbara Gordon fights crime under what superheroine name?
Answer: Batgirl
64. 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?
Answer: Florida
65. The winner of the 1994 Newbery Medal was ranked as the fourth best children's novel of all time by a 2012 U.S. survey. What is this Lois Lowry-penned book which centers on protagonist Jonas's apprenticeship as his community's "Receiver of Memory?"
Answer: The Giver
66. Likenesses of Ramona Quimby and Henry Huggins splash in puddles in a Portland sculpture garden dedicated to what beloved children’s author?
Answer: Beverly Cleary
67. 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"?
Answer: Laura Ingalls Wilder
68. "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?
Answer: Anne
69. Although the exact number is, unsurprisingly, unknown, there once was a building on the continent of Africa that held 40,000 to 400,000 papyrus scrolls and was part of a larger research institution called the Mouseion that was dedicated to the nine Muses. What is the name of this library?
Answer: Great Library of Alexandria
70. A forbidden room in a monastery's library is central to the murder investigations of the monk William of Baskerville in what 1980 novel by Umberto Eco?
Answer: The Name of the Rose
71. "I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library" is a quote from what Argentine writer of "Ficciones" and "El Aleph?"
Answer: Jorge Luis Borges
72. "How to Be a Domestic Goddess" and "At My Table" are among the books by what British food writer, whose private library in London includes a collection of more than 6,000 cookbooks?
Answer: Nigella Lawson
73. 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?
Answer: Call number
74. The acronym DQSH refers to a type of event held in public libraries, where children are read to by drag performers. What does the acronym stand for?
Answer: Drag Queen Story Hour
75. The oldest library in the world, the Al-Qarawiyyin library, is found in a three-letter city in which African country?
Answer: Morocco
76. What term is used to describe the desk that functions as a library’s information hub, where staff can provide guidance to patrons who might be researching a particular topic or looking for a certain book?
Answer: Reference
77. The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, founded in 1907, is found at which world-famous American college?
Answer: Harvard
78. In 2009, Todd Bol mounted a wooden container shaped like a one-room schoolhouse to a post on his Wisconsin lawn. This was the beginning of a national non-profit that has built over 150,000 similar neighborhood structures, and which goes by what three-word name?
Answer: Little Free Library
79. In a win for plaintiffs such as the Fayetteville Public Library, a federal judge in July 2023 granted an injunction against a law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians who provide "harmful" books in which U.S. state?
Answer: Alabama
80. What mysterious 15th-century manuscript, the writing in which has never been successfully interpreted or decoded, has been at Yale University's Beinecke Library since 1969?
Answer: Voynich Manuscript
81. The national library of the United States also happens to be the biggest in America, and it’s not only for senators. What D.C. collection has over 167 million items in it, and not just books?
Answer: Library of Congress
82. For a librarian, the Dewey Decimal System is like a map of the universe: books about the geography and history of extraterrestrial worlds can be found, appropriately, under what far-flung three-number code?
Answer: 999
83. The British Library holds over 29,000 texts of what type, a word that means "cradle," and which refers to works produced during the very first era of European printing presses?
Answer: Incunabula
84. Literature lovers who borrow ebooks from their library might use what L-word app provided by OverDrive, Inc. that shares its name with a supporting character from the TV show Lost?
Answer: Libby
85. The iconic octagonal reading room of Melbourne, Australia's Victorian Library is prominently featured in the third season of what HBO show that takes place in Australia after seasons set in New York State and Texas?
Answer: The Leftovers
86. What novel by Matt Haig about a woman who gets to experience alternative versions of her own life, was—quite appropriately—the most checked-out book at the New York Public Library in 2022?
Answer: The Midnight Library
87. According to estimates, between 40,000 and 400,000 papyrus scrolls were collected a famous library, which was partially burned by Julius Caesar and vanished by the 3rd century CE in what ancient city?
Answer: Alexandria
88. "Marian the Librarian" runs the library of the small town of River City, Iowa in what acclaimed 1957 musical and its film adaptation?
Answer: The Music Man
89. In what U. S. city would you find the National Library of Medicine, the world's largest biomedical library?
Answer: Bethesda, Maryland
90. What kind of animal was Dewey Readmore Books, who lived in the Spencer, Iowa library (he’d been abandoned in its book bin) until his death in 2006?
Answer: Cat
91. According to the American Library Association, the Library of Congress is the largest library in the U.S. by volumes held. What university has the largest academic library in the country?
Answer: Harvard
92. Connected to Johns Hopkins University, what Baltimore library open to the public is often considered as one of the world's most beautiful?
Answer: Peabody Library
93. The British Library holds the 14th century Golden ______? It’s one of the oldest extant manuscripts of what traditional Jewish text used during Passover.
Answer: Haggadah
94. What prize bestowed by the Library of Congress "was created to honor artists whose lifetime contributions in the field of popular song exemplify the standard of excellence associated with” who?
Answer: Gershwin Prize
95. What Roman goddess is represented in a marble mosaic created by Elihu Vedder found in the Library of Congress?
Answer: Minerva
96. According to the NYPL, what 1962 book by Ezra Jack Keats been checked out the most times (at 485,583)?
Answer: The Snowy Day
97. New York University's Fales Library contains a collection of artifacts related to what genre of music, exemplified by bands like Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, and Sleater-Kinney?
Answer: Riot Grrrl
98. Canada's smallest library, a 3.5 meter-by-3.5 meter collection, can be found in the town of Cardigan, which is, of course, found in what smallest province by area?
Answer: Prince Edward Island
99. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, what country is home to the world’s tallest library? With 27 floors, that’s a lot of stacks!
Answer: Indonesia
100. Giving his name to several libraries around the U.S., which author born Samuel Clemens said "the man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read"—?
Answer: Mark Twain
101. Completed in 1776, the Admont Abbey Library, the world’s largest monastic library, is located in what European country with a capital city of Vienna?
Answer: Austria
102. One of the earliest advocates of founding the Boston Public Library was a man named M. Nihcholas Marie Alexandre Vattemare who, given his profession, was probably pretty talented at not speaking too loudly. What slightly unnerving performing profession did this Frenchman have?
Answer: Ventriloquist
103. The New York Public Library received tens of thousands of overdue books and other items in 2021 after eliminating what?
Answer: Late fees
104. What mobile app, created by Overdrive Inc., is used by 90% of all libraries in the United States to manage ebook services?
Answer: Libby
105. Famous for its lions, Temperance and Fortitude, what American city's flagship public library is available as a pricey rental for glamorous wedding receptions?
Answer: New York
106. A particularly ferocious caretaker of the Restricted Section, Madam Irma Pince is the librarian for what magical fictional school?
Answer: Hogwarts
107. What ancient Greek library was once one of the most important in the world, sitting near what is today the city of Bergama, Turkey, but at the time was a city of note in the New Testament? In fact, John of Patmos called it out as one of the Seven churches of Asia in the Book of Revelation.
Answer: Pergamum
108. What online library, which seeks to create "one web page for every book ever published," was created in 2006 by Creative Commons pioneer Aaron Swartz, among others?
Answer: Open Library
109. An ancient library on the north side of the Acropolis was created by what Roman emperor, perhaps better remembered for a namesake wall in modern-day Britain?
Answer: Hadrian
110. Harvard owns several libraries and research centers around the world, including the Villa i Tatti located in what Italian city?
Answer: Florence
111. Which New York City borough has a central library with a design meant to evoke an open book? Its "pages" lie along Flatbush Avenue and Eastern Parkway.
Answer: Brooklyn
112. The line "My soul has grown deep like the rivers" is engraved on the floor of the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center, above the location where the ashes of what American poet have been interred?
Answer: Langston Hughes
113. The British Library in London comes a close second with 170 million cataloged items, but what library with the largest collection of cataloged items, with over 178 million, is found in the nation’s capital?
Answer: Washington D.C.
114. What Royal Library named after the last great king of the Assyrian Empire includes the “Epic of Gilgamesh?” among its 30,000 clay texts from the 7th century BCE?
Answer: Library of Ashurbanipal
115. It makes the top 20 biggest libraries in America on its own, but what Ohio library’s reach became even greater when it teamed up with the Cleveland Public Library in 2003 to create the Greater Access Library Card?
Answer: Cuyahoga County Public Library
116. Focusing on the period between 1750 and 1850, the Herzogin (Duchess) Anna Amalia Library can be found in what German city that's the eponym of a period of German history in the early 20th century?
Answer: Weimar
117. An Idaho library is one of the settings of "Cloud Cuckoo Land," a 2021 novel by what author who won a Pulitzer for his earlier work "All the Light We Cannot See?"
Answer: Anthony Doerr
118. What Roman emperor, famed for his many other engineering and architectural projects as far away as Britain, built a namesake library in 132 CE next to Athens's Acropolis?
Answer: Hadrian
119. Stonehead McGurney and Sir Harry the Muse are owls in what colorfully-named fantasy novel series by Brian Jacques?
Answer: Redwall
120. The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, the third largest academic library in the UK, is part of which university located in Northwest England?
Answer: University of Manchester
121. The universe is a vast library of books that are 410 pages long in the imaginative short story "The Library of Babel" by what Argentine author who was also a librarian?
Answer: Jorge Luis Borges
122. Rupert Giles, the Librarian of Sunnydale High School (and secret member of the Watchers' Council) appears on what cult classic TV show?
Answer: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
123. After gaining her master's degree in library science in 1973, what future First Lady was employed as a librarian at the Kashmere Gardens Branch of the Houston Public Library?
Answer: Laura Bush
124. You can visit UC San Diego's Geisel Library via the "Snake Path," artist Alexis Smith's tiled walkway that features a granite sculpture of what John Milton epic with a pretty important snake?
Answer: Paradise Lost
125. Turtle Princess is the very strict librarian, and the Pagelings are the guardians of the books, in what Cartoon Network animated series?
Answer: Adventure Time
126. Vienna's Austrian National Library is home to a museum dedicated to one of the world's largest collections of what three-dimensional objects, including some created by Gemma Frisius and Gerald Mercator?
Answer: Globes
127. Founded in 1819, what public U.S. university famously featured a library as its "head building" rather than a religious building? This was a departure from most schools founded before 1830 in the U.S. Today, the building is referred to as the Rotunda.
Answer: University of Virginia
128. Harold Hill sings, "I love you madly, madly, Madam Librarian, Marian" in the song "Marian the Librarian" in what classic and alliteratively titled Broadway musical?
Answer: The Music Man
129. Experiences with a commanding officer in World War II helped Richard Adams form the character of Hazel the rabbit in what 1972 novel?
Answer: Watership Down
130. What Roman emperor from 161 to 180, who was also a Stoic philosopher, wrote the book “Meditations?” These self-explorations helped him improve himself and is used as a tool for leaders to this day.
Answer: Marcus Aurelius
131. Elisha Otis wouldn't approve of the meditation techniques used in Colson Whitehead's novel "The Intuitionist" to inspect what pieces of infrastructure?
Answer: Elevators
132. 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?
Answer: Los Angeles
133. Although more well-known for his fiction and character creations, what famous author was also an ophthalmologist? He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh in the 1870s, was a determined supporter of compulsory vaccination, and partially based his most famous character on a former university teacher.
Answer: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
134. What Beacon Hill institution, one of the oldest independent lending libraries in the United States, was founded in 1807 by members of the Boston Anthology Society?
Answer: Boston Athenaeum
135. In the Discworld books by Terry Pratchett, the Librarian of Unseen University takes the form of what arboreal animal, the only Great Ape found exclusively in Asia?
Answer: Orang-utan
136. In what Northeastern city was the first large free municipal library in the U.S. founded in 1848?
Answer: Boston
137. In 1889, the first Carnegie Library opened in Braddock, a suburb of what Pennsylvania city?
Answer: Pittsburgh
138. The second largest library in Europe, the Royal Library, can be found in which country, which also has a territory in North America?
Answer: Denmark
139. Canada's massive Library and Archives Canada contains, among other items in its collection, the chair used by what renowned Canadian pianist of the 20th century?
Answer: Glenn Gould
140. The Greek philosopher Theophrastus analyzed a variety of minerals and ores, such as marble and limestone, in his book “On” what? The word is defined as hard, solid, nonmetallic minerals of which rock is made.
Answer: Stones
141. What 2014 bestseller by Emily St. John Mandel opens with a performance of "King Lear," in which the death of the actor playing Lear is one of the first in an apocalyptic swine flu pandemic?
Answer: Station Eleven
142. Set just before the American Revolution, what Newbery-winning Esther Forbes novel's title character is a silversmith's apprentice who takes part in the Boston Tea Party?
Answer: Johnny Tremain
143. Once a peaceable librarian, Kamo Tharnn found a magical artifact that made him go power-mad and become The Possessor, an enemy of what shiny Marvel Comics superhero?
Answer: Silver Surfer
144. Named after the former UK Prime Minister who founded it in 1889, what Welsh library allows scholars to study and spend the night, thus billed as the UK's only residential library?
Answer: Gladstone's
145. For many years, Yale's Lillian Goldman Law Library used to let stressed students check out "Monty," a therapy dog of what breed?
Answer: Therapy Dog
146. The unusual "Tete Carree," or "Square Head," is home to the municipal library of what pretty decent French Riviera city near Monaco and the Italian border?
Answer: Nice
147. Librairie 7L, a vast collection of books on photography, art, and design, was founded in 1999 by what fashion mogul who was formerly the creative director of Chanel?
Answer: Karl Lagerfeld
148. The 1999 novel "Girl With a Pearl Earring" by Tracy Chevalier was inspired by a painting with the same title by what Dutch artist?
Answer: Johannes Vermeer
149. Originals of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights reside in the National Archives' Rotunda for the _____ of Freedom?
Answer: Charters
150. What famed American science fiction author's "Memorial Library" is located in Indianapolis, the city in which he was born in 1922?
Answer: Kurt Vonnegut
151. In 1971, John Gardner wrote a novel from the perspective of a monster from an ancient British poem. The hero was eventually killed by a monster known simply as whose Mother?
Answer: Grendel
152. The enormous glass edifice of Seattle's Central Library, which opened in 2004, was designed by what renowned Dutch architect whose full first name is "Remment?"
Answer: Rem Koolhaas
153. What country's national library boasts one of the world's largest collections, including the correspondences of Soren Kierkegaard and Hans Christian Andersen?
Answer: Denmark
154. The New York Public Library's permanent collection includes a stuffed bear, elephant, kangaroo, and tiger that once belonged to the son of what English author?
Answer: A. A. Milne
155. Bigger Thomas, a young Black man living in poverty in Chicago in the 1930s, is the title character of what novel by Richard Wright?
Answer: Native Son
156. "The Whitsun Weddings" and "This Be the Verse" are famous works by what English poet who also worked as a librarian after graduating from Oxford?
Answer: Philip Larkin
157. Tim Richardson’s 2007 book about 18th-century landscape gardens in Britain is titled "The ______ Friends?" It’s also the name for a resident of an unspoiled wilderness in ancient Peloponnese, the home of the god Pan.
Answer: Arcadian
158. Set in the Indian state of Kerala, what "divine" 1997 debut novel by Arundhati Roy won a Man Booker Prize?
Answer: The God of Small Things
159. In 2004, a group of heist-happy thieves tried to make off with the Transylvania University library's copy of what rare and valuable book, a series of color plates put together by John James Audubon?
Answer: Birds of America
160. According to data from the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom, what state saw the most attempts to restrict access to books in 2022?
Answer: Texas
161. The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, part of the Harvard Library system and dedicated to advancing scholarship in Byzantine, Garden and Landscape, and Pre-Columbian studies, is located in what North American city?
Answer: Washington, D.C.
162. What 1962 picture book by Ezra Jack Keats is the most popular book in the New York Public Library system, having been checked out nearly 500,000 times?
Answer: The Snowy Day
163. Presidential candidate Andrew Jarrett uses the slogan "Make America Great Again" in "The Parable of the Talents," a 1998 dystopian novel by what sci-fi author?
Answer: Octavia E. Butler
164. What language, in which "doubleplusungood" means "very bad," does the government of Oceania use to establish thought control in George Orwell's novel "1984?"
Answer: Newspeak
165. Author John Green set his tearjerking 2012 bestseller, "The Fault in Our Stars," in what state capital that is also his hometown?
Answer: Indianapolis
166. What Latina and Chicago native wrote "Caramelo," a novel about a Mexican-American family in Chicago who takes an annual road trip to visit their “Awful Grandmother” in Mexico City?
Answer: Sandra Cisneros
167. Trinity College Dublin's fabled "Long Room" boasts among its collections what type of musical instrument supposedly owned by Irish king Brian Boru, and a symbol of Ireland?
Answer: Harp
168. What main research library at Oxford University might be most recognizable to American audiences as the library at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the "Harry Potter" franchise?
Answer: Bodleian Library
169. What 13-letter German loanword means a novel that focuses on the psychological and personal growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood?
Answer: Bildungsroman
170. Not all libraries have a code of silence: in 2015, a Finnish library introduced a room for what specific practice, a name that means "empty orchestra" in Japanese?
Answer: Karaoke
171. What author critiqued cultural evaluations of indigenous Americans across North America in his 2012 book “The Inconvenient Indian?" His last name implies a regal background.
Answer: Thomas King
172. What is the common name for a library that is entitled to receive one free copy of each book published in a region? These libraries are often associated with government agencies involved with intellectual property administration.
Answer: Copyright library
173. Inspired by her new Dewey Decimal knowledge, Parker Posey's character rearranges her DJ roommates vinyl collection in what 1995 coming-of-age library-slash-fiesta movie?
Answer: Party Girl
174. What 19th century president joined his cabinet members in fighting a fire in the Library of Congress?
Answer: Millard Fillmore
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