Friday, April 16, 2010

Friday's NLW Trivia

Yesterday's Answers:

9. This person was the model for a librarian action figure.
a. Laura Bush
b. Melvil Dewey
c. Nancy Pearl
d. Jessamyn West

- According to Nancy Pearl's website "The New York Times calls her 'the talk of librarian circles.' Readers can't get enough of her recommendations while bookstores and libraries offer standing room only whenever she visits. Since the release of the best-selling Book Lust in 2003 and the Librarian Action Figure modeled in her likeness Nancy Pearl has become a rock star among readers and the tastemaker people turn to when deciding what to read next." Click here to learn more about this famous librarian and here to read her blog.

10. Which actor/actress has not played a librarian on TV or in a movie?
a. Rachel Weisz
b. Noah Wyle
c. Donna Reed
d. Emily Deschanel

- Rachel Weisz played librarian Evelyn Carnahan in both The Mummy and The Mummy Returns.
- Noah Wyle played librarian Flynn Carsen in the made-for-TV movies The Librarian:Quest for the Spear, The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines and The Librarian: The Curse of the Judas Chalice.
- At one point in the movie It's a Wonderful Life, Donna Reed's character, Mary Hatch, is employed as a librarian.

Today's Questions:

11. Which book begins with the following line: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
a. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
b. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
c. The Stranger by Albert Camus
d. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

12. The Parkland Community Library circulates video games for which systems?
a. Wii and PS3
b. Wii and XBox 360
c. PS3 and XBox 360
d. None of the above

Check back tomorrow for answers and the final NLW trivia questions!

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