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With your host, NCSLMA President
Walter Carmichael!

A few brief rules....

Pub Trivia Rules

• 4 people to a team
• NO GOOGLING!
• NO CELL PHONES!
• No technology of any kind!

If you get caught cheating....

...you must buy Walter a beer!

First, there are 5 categories with 5 questions each.

Just 2 to a team. Only 2 prizes per group.

Are you ready?

Category #1

LIBRARY TRIVIA

1.Who invented the Dewey Decimal system?

2. Which book is reported as most often stolen from libraries?

3. Which famous librarian went on to rename the Bureau of Investigation to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and head the agencies under eight different presidents?

4. How long is the bookshelf space at the Library of Congress?
a. 838 miles
b. 20 miles
c. 150 miles
d. 546 miles

5. Which have more locations in the
United States?
a. libraries
b. McDonald's

Category #2

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

6. What is the name of Ramona Quimby's cat?

7. What is the "Wimpy Kid's" real name?

8. What medal did this book win in 2016?

9. Which of Dr. Seuss' picture books was published first?

10. Which picture book won the very first Caldecott medal in 1938?

Category #3

BOOK AWARDS

11. This award honors an author, as well as a specific body of his or her work, for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature.

12. This award is given to the best audiobook produced each year for children/young adults.

13. This award honors a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose works best portray, affirm, and celebrate the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.

14. This award is given annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values.

15. This award honors an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.

Category #4

BANNED BOOKS

16. Which famous American author wrote two related books about the adventures of a couple of young boys? The books were banned after their initial publication for being "too racially tolerant." Nowadays, they are accused of being "too racist."

17. Copies of this banned book were edited to make it appropriate for school
literature classes. The censorship of this book is ironic because the central theme
of the book is censorship.

18. Even children’s poetry can be dangerous in the wrong hands. This book of poems
was challenged for “encouraging children to break the dishes to avoid washing them.”

19. In this often banned book, a sixth grade girl faces issues like her first bra, first period and first kiss.

20. This Pulitzer Prize winning novel about an escaped slave is often assigned to high school English classes but parents have objected to its violence and sexuality.

Category #5

Harry Potter

21. What is the name of Harry Potter's Owl?

22. What is the street address of the Dursley home?

23. Which of the Hogwarts founders created the Chamber of Secrets?

24. Quidditch players are constantly at risk of injury throughout the game. How many possible Quidditch fouls are there?

25. This one is a doozy. Name every ingredient contained in
Polyjuice Potion.
(Hint: There are seven.)

That is the end of the quiz! Please turn in your sheets....

And the winner is.....