Books Trivia

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What is the title of the list at the beginning of many nonfiction books that shows chapters and page numbers?

Answer: Table of contents

Bonus fact: A table of contents helps readers locate major sections or chapters.

What is the name for the page that usually gives a book's title, author, and publisher information?

Answer: Title page

Bonus fact: The title page typically presents a book's formal title and authorship information.

What term refers to a book made by folding printed sheets into gatherings that are then bound together?

Answer: Codex

Bonus fact: The codex format gradually replaced the scroll as the dominant book form in much of the ancient Mediterranean world.

Which major historical English dictionary was first published in full in 1928 after decades of work?

Answer: Oxford English Dictionary

Bonus fact: The first complete edition of the Oxford English Dictionary appeared in 1928.

Which famous French Enlightenment encyclopedia was edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert?

Answer: Encyclopédie

Bonus fact: The Encyclopédie was a major 18th-century effort to collect and spread knowledge.

Bookbinding is the craft of assembling pages into what?

Answer: Book

Bonus fact: Binding secures pages and covers together.

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