A-Z Encyclopedic Quiz of Encyclopedias

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Letter	Hint	Answer
A	One way articles are organized	Alphabetically
B	Most famous encyclopedia of 20th century	Britannica
C	Famous American encyclopedia	Collier's
D	Book that focuses on word definitions	Dictionary
E	Digital multimedia encyclopedia published by Microsoft	Encarta
F	Information in encyclopedias should be this	Factual
G	Language the root words of 'encyclopedia' came from	Greek
H	Alternative way to organize articles	Hierarchical
I	What articles can have in addition to text	Illustration
J	What game the logo of W depicts	Jigsaw puzzle
K	What encyclopedias contain	Knowledge
L	Language the word 'encyclopedia' comes from	Latin
M	Cartographic drawings often included in articles	Map

Letter	Hint	Answer
N	Subject the first encyclopedia wrote about	Natural History
O	What W is, as opposed to proprietary	Open-source
P	Statesman from the 1st Century AD who wrote the first encyclopedia	Pliny the Elder
Q	Rhetorician born in Hispania known for his writing (Name sounds like 10¹⁸)	Quintillian
R	Nationality of P	Roman
S	Branch of mathematics dealing with the collection and presentation of data	Statistics
T	Prickly flower used as the logo for B	Thistle
U	Country where B was first published	United Kingdom
V	City state where 'De expetendis et fugiendis rebus' by Giorgio Valla was published	Venice
W	The Free Encyclopedia	Wikipedia
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Y	Early web-portal and search engine popular in the early 2000s	Yahoo!
Z	Animal the barcodes on the back of encyclopedias look a bit like	Zebra