Memorize these and you could recognize 25.3% of all Libraries clues.
| # | Answer | Appearances | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the Library of Congress | 13 | This national library was burned during the War of 1812 |
| 2 | Library at Alexandria | 8 | This ancient Egyptian marvel had a copy of every existing scroll known to its librarians |
| 3 | Chicago | 7 | The Harold Washington Library Center was dedicated in this city in 1991 |
| 4 | the Vatican Library | 7 | Nicholas V started amassing manuscripts for this library the 15th century |
| 5 | Bethesda | 6 | This Maryland community is home to the Naval Medical Center & the Nat'l Library of Medicine |
| 6 | the New York Public Library | 6 | In the 1984 film, this library was so haunted that the Ghostbusters ran out of it screaming |
| 7 | Oxford | 5 | Britain's 2nd largest library, the Bodleian, is at this university |
| 8 | Andrew Carnegie | 5 | In 1889 a Braddock, PA library became the first in the U.S. constructed by this businessman |
| 9 | Harvard | 4 | It is for man who started library, not one who founded school, that this Mass. university is named |
| 10 | Yale | 3 | This school in New Haven, Conn. is home to the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
| 11 | Wales | 3 | One of the world's greatest collections of Celtica is in this country's National Library in Aberystwyth |
| 12 | the British Museum | 3 | This London museum's huge circular reading room was a major innovation in library design |
| 13 | Salt Lake City | 3 | The Family History Library at 35 N. West Temple Street in this state capital is the largest of its kind |
| 14 | Princeton | 3 | The Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library at this N.J. school is the state's largest research library |
| 15 | Notre Dame | 3 | The Theodore M. Hesburgh Library at this college has a 12-story granite mural on its outer wall |
| 16 | Boston | 3 | George Washington's collection of books is housed at the Athenaeum Lib. in this New England capital |
| 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 | In 1939 his Hyde Park, N.Y. presidential library became 1st to be separate from Library of Congress |
| 21 | Walt Whitman | 2 | The University of Pennsylvania Library has a special collection on this "Song of Myself" poet |
| 22 | Trinity | 2 | Among the exhibits at this Irish college's library is the book of Durrow, a gospel manuscript dating to the 7th century |
| 23 | the Folger Library | 2 | This Wash., D.C. library has the most important collection of Shakespeare's works in the world |
| 24 | the Bodleian Library | 2 | The Radcliffe Camera, Britain's first round library, is the main reading room of this bigger library at Oxford |
| 25 | Samuel Pepys | 2 | The library at Cambridge's Magdalene College is named for this diarist who bequeathed it his books & diary |
| 26 | Rochester, Minnesota | 2 | This city is the site of the Mayo Medical Library |
| 27 | Pittsburgh | 2 | Founded in 1895, the Carnegie Library is this city's main public library |
| 28 | Oklahoma | 2 | The library of this state's Historical Society has the largest collection of papers of the Five Civilized Tribes |
| 29 | New York | 2 | The libraries of John Jacob Astor & James Lennox became part of this city's public library in 1895 |
| 30 | Michelangelo | 2 | Pope Clement VII commissioned him to design the Medicean-Laurentian Library in 1523 |
| 31 | Massachusetts | 2 | The Chapin Library of Rare Books at Williams College in this state's Berkshire Hills has a 1787 copy of the Constitution |
| 32 | Maine | 2 | This state's largest public libraries are in Bangor & Portland |
| 33 | Ireland | 2 | Marsh's Library in this country was founded c. 1702 by the Archbishop of Dublin |
| 34 | Indiana | 2 | This Midwest state's Old Cathedral Library in Vincennes is noted for its old manuscripts |
| 35 | Howard University | 2 | Washington, D.C. school that houses the Moorland-Spingarn & Channing Pollock collections |
| 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 | The United Nations' library is named for this Secretary-General who was killed in a 1961 plane crash |
| 38 | da Vinci | 2 | Milan's Ambrosiana Library is famous for its Codex Atlanticus, a collection of his drawings & mss. |
| 39 | Cuba | 2 | This country's National Library, the Biblioteca Nacional Jose Marti, was financed by a tax on sugar |
| 40 | bookmobiles | 2 | This service began in the U.S. using a horse-drawn wagon |
| 41 | Benjamin Harrison | 2 | For aural thrills go to the Vincent Voice Library at Michigan State & hear a recording of this 23rd U.S. president |
| 42 | Belgium | 2 | The website for this country's Bibliotheque Royale Albert I can be read in French & Dutch |
| 43 | Baylor | 2 | The library at this Waco, Texas school houses the largest collection of works about Robert Browning |
| 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 | The oldest of the 3 buildings which house the Library of Congress is named for this president |
| 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 |