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A Library in Your Living Room

UK public library members quiz

See our 'Library in Your Living Room' pages for more information on the Oxford resources available through your local library

If you’re very quiet and remain perfectly still so it’s not frightened away, you can feel spring in the air. In order to try and coax it into full bloom our April/May UK public library quiz is on...spring-time!

Using the Oxford online reference package provided by your public library, answer the 3 questions below for a chance to win either £50 worth of Oxford University Press books or an iPod shuffle (TM).

The winner will be chosen from the correct entries after the closing date of 31st May 2013

For an introduction on how to log on to the resources you can Watch this video, or visit our 'Library in Your Living Room' hub for further training tools and general info.

1. The mysterious Spring-heeled Jack (1837-1838) was a malicious prankster responsible for terrifying residents on the periphery of London with his ability to 'jump 20 feet in the air' and ‘belch forth blue and white flames’. According to the Oxford DNB who was (and remains for some) the chief suspect?

Use your library access to login to www.oxforddnb.com to find the answers.

2. “In the spring-time, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.” – Mark Twain

When is the earliest evidence of the word spring-time in the Oxford English Dictionary?

Use your library access to login to www.oed.com to find the answers.

3. A piece of art synonymous with spring-time is Botticelli’s renaissance masterpiece Primavera which shows ‘Venus as a symbol of spring being adorned with flowers by the Graces’. What year does the Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (4 ed.) on Oxford Reference give for its completion?

A. c.1480
B. c.1485
C. c.1490

Use your library access to login to www.oxfordreference.com to find the answers.

Your contact details (needed for prize draw)...

You must be over the age of 18 to enter this competition.

Name:
Email:
Name of Library:

Terms and conditions

The winner will be contacted by email and the prize must be accepted as offered. The decision of OUP will be final, and no correspondence will be entered into. Only one entry per person is allowed. Employees of Oxford University Press are not eligible to enter the Competition.

Competition closes 31st May 2013.

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