Double Dating For Bibliophiles

It turns out that World Book Day, designed by UNESCO to promote reading and the joy of books around the globe, is celebrated both today and on April 23rd. The apparent confusion about when it actually takes place arises because while almost all the 100 countries signed up to this fantastic initiative mark the latter day, Britain and Ireland celebrate it on March 3rd this year with a battery of events organised variously by schools, publishers, libraries and bookshops. As enjoying books is in our view an item on the 'Top Ten Reasons To Be Alive' list, Highly Questionable is marking World Book Day with a book related quiz today and plans to follow this up on April 22nd with another similarly themed set of questions.
 Books Quiz 
 1  Measured by the number of books housed, which is the largest library in the world?

 2   Who is credited with inventing movable type and the printing press so enabling the printing revolution that made a mass readership of books possible? 

 3  Every book published commercially in the world is assigned an ISBN, what do these letters stand for? 

 4  Amongst the worldwide host of book prizes for fiction published in English, which brings the winner the largest financial reward? 

 5  What is the name of the ebook reader created and marketed by the internet company Amazon?

Answers will be published along with tomorrow's Highly Questionable quiz and associated blog post.

Dictators Quiz Answers 
The answers to yesterday's Highly Questionable quiz which took the highly disagreeable theme of dictators are:-

 1  Benito Mussolini, who as the Italian fascist leader, was the European dictator who ruled Libya as a colony throughout the 1930s.   

 2  Charlie Chaplin was the internationally acclaimed comedic actor who directed and starred in the 1940 film 'The Great Dictator' which satirised Hitler and the Nazis.

 3  'Missing' was the name of the 1982 Hollywood film starring Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek which depicted how Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet came to power through a CIA backed coup. 

 4  The Tonton Macoutes were the greatly feared paramilitary force that did the bidding of the father and son Haitian dictators 'Papa Doc' and 'Baby Doc' Duvalier during their reigns of terror which stretched from the late 1950s through to the mid 80s.

 5  Pol Pot was was the leader of the brutal Khmer Rouge dictatorship that ruled Cambodia during the 1970s.

The author of the Highly Questionable? quiz and trivia blog, Harry Reid, is a freelance question setter, writer and blogger. He can be contacted at harryreid@btinternet.com.