There's an Elephant in My Library Quiz

Answer: An elephant in the room

The discordant apparel of the librarian is somewhat obvious and glaring, but no one is willing to broach the subject. This interesting idiomatic phrase usually refers to an awkward yet obvious situation that no one is willing to discuss. The meaning of the phrase is well described in popular culture.

In the television series, "Family Guy," Peter says, "The healthiest thing we can do is just ignore this and pretend it doesn't exist. Just like we do with the squid."

Answer: The Elephant Gambit

Some gambits are quite common in tournament play. The Elephant Gambit is not one of them. The opening is characterized as follows: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d5. The opening is considered to be relatively unsound, but it may be used for the element of surprise in tournament play.

Answer: Pink elephants

There may be earlier literary references to "pink elephants," but the phrase seems to have originated with Jack London. In London's "John Barleycorn," London depicts two kinds of drinkers. One derives inspiration and imagination from alcohol, while the other revels in numbness and ultimately sees blue mice and pink elephants.

Answer: University of Alabama

Big Al is the personification of an elephant in costume. It is the mascot for the University of Alabama's football team, famously known as the Crimson Tide. The university has a brief biography about the origins of the mascot on their website.

Answer: King Crimson

The progressive rock band King Crimson was formed in 1968. The lyrics of "Elephant Talk" are alphabetic and alliterative. "Talk, it's only talk. Arguments, agreements, advice, answers.
Articulate announcements. It's only talk."

Each successive verse begins with the next letter of the alphabet.

Answer: Dumbo

"Dumbo" is a relative short animated Disney film released in 1941. Dumbo used his enormous ears to fly around. In the film, Dumbo overcomes adversity with the help of his rodent friend, Timothy Q. Mouse. The film garnered some accolades, most notably an award for "Best Scoring of a Musical Picture."

Answer: 599.67 (Proboscidea)

The librarian is a bit of a luddite when it comes to library classification. Nevertheless, as it is a personal library, the Dewey Decimal System works well enough. Many universities use the Library of Congress system. As one might surmise, there are also a number of specialized classification systems for specialized libraries.

Proboscidea is the taxonomic order that contains elephants and no other living species.

Answer: Ganesha

Royina Grewal is the author of "The Book of Ganesha". Ganesha is a much revered deity who resembles an elephant. Genesha is also known as the "Remover of Obstacles" and the "Lord of Obstacles." The librarian peruses this book in order to improve his chess skill.

Answer: Babar

"Babar" began in Canada on CBC and has been broadcast around the world in many languages. Babar is an optimistic elephant who is usually presented with a perplexing problem. Babar's exquisite talent is finding the best solution to problems under difficult circumstances.

Answer: fruits, flowers, leaves, twigs, etc.

Elephants are primarily herbivores, so a diet consisting of leaves, grass, fruit and other plant derived edibles would be enough to make an elephant happy. Contrary to popular belief, elephants do not regularly dine on peanuts. However, they will do so. They definitely do not dine on people, plankton or electricity.