Friday 3rd November 2023
Difficulty: Very hard
Libraries (Quiz #350)
The phone box library at Great Snoring, Norfolk. Photo: Cédez le Passage (Creative Commons)
1. Which UK library is the largest independent library outside London, with over 150,000 books?
2. Roughly how many telephone boxes have been converted into libraries in the UK, since British Telecom launched their "Adopt A Kiosk" scheme in 2008?
3. A three-volume dictionary is placed on a library bookshelf in the correct order. The front and back covers of all three volumes are ⅛ inch thick each. The total thickness of the pages in each volume is 2 inches. How far does a bookworm travel when it eats from the first page of Volume I to the last page of Volume III?
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