Quiz 7: Databases for Children

Databases

Quiz 7 Form

Questions:

1. What famous baseball player commented that his roommate, “Cool Papa” Bell was so fast…”he could turn out the hotel lights and be in his bed before the room got dark”?

2. In 1532, what Spanish explorer overthrew the Inca Empire in Peru?

3. What state’s motto is “God Enriches”?

4. Do the countries, Slovenia and Slovakia, share the same monetary unit?

5. Soccer has been played in every Summer Olympics since 1900, except for which games and where?

6. To maunder is to…?

7. Decode These Word Riddles (homonyms)

Groups of sheep,
A lot of crows;
A garden flower
So stately grows.

A horse-drawn cab
In a city park;
A fellow tall
With this and dark

The Andes are here,
This stew's a hot one;
Red peppers by name,
And nippy, no sun?

8. Over the past decade, Tami Lane has worked with vampires, elves, ores, mutants, and minotaurs. It's all part of the job for a special-effects makeup artist. At age 33, Lane is at the top of her field with her “creature features”. Which movie won her an Oscar?

9. Original Words - Many of our words have come from other languages. Match the origin of the following words from the choices below.
French Spanish Italian German
omelet ______________
snorkel ______________
guitar _______________
broccoli ______________
casserole ______________
kindergarten ______________
vanilla ______________

10. Which states border Kentucky?

One of our goals for 2009 is to encourage the use and increase the awareness of the information found in the databases. To get staff more familiar with what is in some of our databases, we thought an incentive of a prize would be good. :-) So, each month we are going to post questions on survey monkey about a particular subject. You must use the databases to answer these questions. As long as you are a staff person at BPL, you may enter.

The rules:
Answer all questions in the quiz.
You may enter only one time per quiz.
If your answers are correct, you name will go into a drawing.
One name will be pulled for each quiz from the group of correctly answered surveys.
The winner will receive a $20 gift certificate, probably to Wal-Mart.
The winner will be posted on the staff blog and will need to claim his/her prize. (to get you to look at the staff blog as well!) You have until 5:00 p.m. on June 30th to complete the quiz.

Trying to find the answers will hopefully help you become more proficient in using the databases.