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Library of Congress Classification organizes subjects mainly with letters and numbers. This topic is part of Libraries within Language. This page currently draws on 78 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
library trivia questions
A library is a place where people can use or borrow what?
Answer: Books and information resources
Bonus fact: Modern libraries may offer books, media, databases, and community services.
What system groups nonfiction books into numbered subject classes such as 500 for science?
Answer: Dewey Decimal System
Bonus fact: Melvil Dewey introduced the system in the 19th century.
What classification system is widely used by large academic libraries in the United States?
Answer: Library of Congress Classification
Bonus fact: Library of Congress Classification organizes subjects mainly with letters and numbers.
Who wrote The Body in the Library?
Answer: Agatha Christie
Bonus fact: The novel was published in 1942.
Which detective appears in The Body in the Library?
Answer: Miss Marple
Bonus fact: Miss Marple investigates after a body is found in a respectable home.
The Nag Hammadi library was discovered in which country?
Answer: Egypt
Bonus fact: The codices were found near Nag Hammadi in 1945.
What kind of texts are prominent in the Nag Hammadi library?
Answer: Early Christian and Gnostic writings
Bonus fact: The collection includes many previously little-known texts.
Which famous Borges story imagines a library containing every possible book?
Answer: The Library of Babel
Bonus fact: Its hexagonal galleries contain all possible combinations of characters.
The great library assembled by the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal was found at which ancient city?
Answer: Nineveh
Bonus fact: Thousands of cuneiform tablets from Ashurbanipal's library survive in the British Museum.
According to the Library of Congress 1492 exhibit, Columbus’s voyage brought Mediterranean and American peoples together on an island in which archipelago?
Answer: The Bahamas
Bonus fact: The encounter initiated sustained contact between peoples of the Mediterranean world and the Americas.
In what year did Gertrude Clarke Whittall donate five Stradivari string instruments to the Library of Congress?
Answer: 1935
Bonus fact: The donation became the cornerstone of the Library's important Cremonese instrument collection.
How many Stradivari string instruments did Gertrude Clarke Whittall initially give the Library of Congress?
Answer: Five
Bonus fact: The Library says the gift comprised a performing group of Stradivari instruments rather than museum relics meant never to be played.