Memorize these and recognize 25.9% of all Libraries clues.
| # | Answer | Count | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the Library of Congress | 13 | Before becoming director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover was a clerk at this D.C. library |
| 2 | Library at Alexandria | 8 | This ancient Egyptian marvel had a copy of every existing scroll known to its librarians |
| 3 | Chicago | 7 | A 1928 Northwest Airways ad offered early passenger service between Minneapolis-St. Paul & Cicero Field in this city |
| 4 | the Vatican Library | 7 | Its present building was erected under Pope Sixtus V |
| 5 | Harvard | 6 | It has the largest private endowment of any university in the world |
| 6 | Bethesda | 6 | The National Library of Medicine is maintained by the National Institutes of Health in this unincorporated Maryland community |
| 7 | the New York Public Library | 6 | This public library was founded in 1895 by consolidating the Astor & Lenox Libraries & the Tilden Trust |
| 8 | Princeton | 5 | The one that was not involved in the USA's first intercollegiate sporting contest, an 1852 rowing race |
| 9 | Oxford | 5 | Entitled to free copies of all books printed in Britain, the Bodleian Library is the main library of this university |
| 10 | Andrew Carnegie | 5 | One location where this U.S. industrialist donated a library was his native Dunfermline, Scotland |
| 11 | Yale | 4 | Oh, joy! The Whiffenpoofs is one of its glee clubs |
| 12 | Wales | 3 | This country's national library, located in Aberystwyth, is noted for its collection of Celtica |
| 13 | the British Museum | 3 | The King's Library at this museum was built to house King George III's library |
| 14 | Salt Lake City | 3 | The Family History Library in this state capital houses the world's largest genealogical collection |
| 15 | Notre Dame | 3 | This university's Hesburgh Library is famous for its 134-foot-high "Touchdown Jesus" mural |
| 16 | Boston | 3 | This city's public library on Boylston Street has murals that John Singer Sargent spent decades on |
| 17 | Nixon | 3 | Only 2 presidential libraries are not administered by the National Archives: Hayes' in Ohio & his in Yorba Linda, CA. |
| 18 | Madison | 3 | The Library building named for this "Father of the Constitution" is the USA's official memorial to him |
| 19 | Gutenberg | 3 | The Lilly Library at Indiana University has one of this man's 1,453 printings of the New Testament |
| 20 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 3 | His presidential library was opened in Hyde Park, N.Y. while he was still in office |
| 21 | Walt Whitman | 2 | The University of Pennsylvania archive of this man includes the publishing contract for "Leaves of Grass" |
| 22 | Trinity | 2 | 200,000 volumes fill the fittingly named Long Room in the library of this Irish college |
| 23 | the Folger Library | 2 | This Shakespeare library is administered by a board of directors under the auspices of Amherst College |
| 24 | the Bodleian Library | 2 | The venerable Oxford University library is named for an Elizabethan patron |
| 25 | Samuel Pepys | 2 | A small library named for this man at Cambridge's Magdalene College contains his 17th century diary |
| 26 | Rochester, Minnesota | 2 | This city is home to the Mayo Patient Health Education Library |
| 27 | Pittsburgh | 2 | On Nov. 5, 1895 Mr. C. himself dedicated the Carnegie Library of this city |
| 28 | Oklahoma | 2 | Investigators from this state university library created the oral history "Dust, Drought & Dreams Gone Dry" |
| 29 | New York | 2 | Famed for equestrian statues & other animal subjects, Edward Clark Potter designed a pair of sculptures for this city's library |
| 30 | Michelangelo | 2 | In the 1520s Pope Clement VII commissioned him to build the Laurentian Library in Florence |
| 31 | Massachusetts | 2 | "A Fighting Chance" is the story of Elizabeth Warren's journey from small town mom to U.S. senator from this state |
| 32 | Maine | 2 | This state maintains a free library for the public & the legislature in the capital of Augusta |
| 33 | Ireland | 2 | Marsh's Library in this country was founded c. 1702 by the Archbishop of Dublin |
| 34 | Indiana | 2 | This state's largest public collection of books is in the Fort Wayne library system |
| 35 | Howard University | 2 | This D.C. school's Moorland-Spingarn Library includes rare works by Phillis Wheatley & Frederick Douglass |
| 36 | Esperanto | 2 | The Hector Hodler Library in Rotterdam, which is devoted to this artificial language, has over 15,000 books |
| 37 | Dag Hammarskjold | 2 | A library at the U.N. serves as a memorial to this Secretary-General who was killed in a 1961 plane crash |
| 38 | da Vinci | 2 | Milan's Ambrosiana Library has the Codex Atlanticus, a collection of manuscripts & drawings by this Renaissance man |
| 39 | Cuba | 2 | The building of this country's José Martí National Library was funded by a tax on sugar |
| 40 | bookmobiles | 2 | These vehicles used in library outreach programs can be trailers, trucks & even boats in Louisiana bayous |
| 41 | Benjamin Harrison | 2 | The earliest presidential voice recording in the Vincent Voice Library at Mich. State is from this 23rd pres. in 1889 |
| 42 | Belgium | 2 | When entering the official website of this country's Royal Library, you have the choice of reading in Dutch or French |
| 43 | Baylor | 2 | This Waco school's Armstrong Browning Library has items relating to poets Robert & Elizabeth |
| 44 | U.S. Capitol | 2 | Until 1897, the Library of Congress was housed in this building, seen here: |
| 45 | Trinity College | 2 | The Book of Kells, a decorated manuscript of the 4 gospels, is on exhibit in this Dublin school's library |
| 46 | Thomas Jefferson | 2 | When the Library of Congress bought this president's private library, it doubled its collection |
| 47 | the Vatican | 2 | In 1550 Marcello Cervini became Bibliothecarius I, or first librarian of this; Giovanni Pagazzi is now Bibliothecarius L |
| 48 | the Gutenberg Bible | 2 | The library has 1 of 3 perfect vellum copies of this book from the 1450s |
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