Name That Book - Virtual Library Book Trivia Game

Hello, 2020, you seem to want us to do things differently. Without being able to do in-person programming, my Library director asked if it was possible to do some sort of trivia game. A lot of libraries were doing trivia via Zoom or Facebook or online game sites, but I decided to do an asynchronous trivia game trial.

Game one went well! I took a tiny, tiny (tiny!) snip from well-known book covers and challenged our patrons to Name That Book!

My journey of logo creation, re-making old game show logos (somewhat), like Name That Tune

I also made smaller versions of each game panel for Facebook headers.

By the end of the summer, for our rescheduled Adult Library Program, I had it down to a science--or an art. Creating and designing the game questions, rules, and game panels, then creating a Google Form and a Facebook post.

Here are the full rules as published:

Welcome to Name That Book!, the virtual game show from Bellevue Public Library where you can win a gift card to Chick-fil-A for recognizing the snips of these iconic book covers.

ENTER THE CONTEST!

You may not want to judge a book by its cover, but can you name that book by its cover?

HOW TO PLAY:

Look carefully at the fifteen (15) book cover snippets in the photos. These are popular or iconic books (nothing obscure!). Enter your answers and contact information on this Google Form. You will have from today until Monday, May 4 to enter. Name as many as you can--you do not need to complete all of them; you will not be penalized for guessing.

WINNER:

Name the most books correctly to win a gift certificate to Chick-fil-A. In the event of a tie, all entrants who tied will be entered into a drawing and one winner will be drawn. Contest ends on May 4 at noon-ish. You do need to have a Bellevue Library Card in order to win (but feel free to play even if you are out of the area!).

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Please note: later trivia games used the quiz function with auto answer correction in Google Forms, so that I would not have to manually count correct answers, and it was awful! Don't do it! Capitalization and spelling...ack. The foreign language title versus the American translation... Not to mention, Google Forms does not dole out style points for being cool and writing answers in the Elvish language of Tolkien... (This game did not use auto-correction, so I manually graded them and then posted the answers after the game ended.)