Q 01/05

From which Old English word does 'book' come?

A) Liber

B) Buch

C) Boc

D) Biblos

Answer · why

C) Boc

Old Norse has bok and Old Saxon bok.

Q 02/05

Roughly how many unique books had been published in total, by Google's 2010 estimate?

A) Around 13 million

B) Around 130 million

C) Around 30 million

D) Around 1.3 billion

Answer · why

B) Around 130 million

Google Books had scanned over 40 million by 2019.

Q 03/05

What is the name of the format, of pages bound at one edge, that replaced the scroll?

A) The quire

B) The volumen

C) The folio

D) The codex

Answer · why

D) The codex

The Romans developed it from wax tablets.

Q 04/05

According to Guinness World Records, what is the best-selling book of all time?

A) Quotations from Chairman Mao

B) The Bible

C) Don Quixote

D) The Qur'an

Answer · why

B) The Bible

An estimated 5 to 7 billion copies.

Q 05/05

What is the estimated total sales figure for the Christian Bible?

A) Over 20 billion copies

B) About 500 million copies

C) Over five billion copies

D) About one billion copies

Answer · why

C) Over five billion copies

It is translated into about half the world's languages.