Trivia Night: Big Read Battle of the Books

Love reading? Enjoy trivia? Come celebrate our community's NEA Big Read with an Adult Battle of the Books trivia competition.

Teams of 3-5 adults are invited to compete to answer rounds of trivia based off books chosen by library staff. Prizes will be awarded! Titles listed below or check the list of Battle books in the library catalog. 

• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 
• The book of unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez
• Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas 
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri 

NEA Big Read 2019
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Events at Champaign Public Library:
• Feb 3, NEA Big Read: An Afternoon with Samrat Upadhyay, 3 pm
• Feb 14, NEA Big Read Book Club: The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, 1:30 pm @ Douglass
• Feb 18, The History of Henna, 6:30 pm (reservations required)
• Feb 21, NEA Big Read Book Club: The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, 1:30 pm
• Feb 24, In Concert at CPL: Indian Classical Music and Dance, 2 pm
• Feb 28, Trivia Night: Big Read Battle of the Books, 6:30 pm

Part of the NEA Big Read Champaign-Urbana, a partnership among the Spurlock Museum, the International & Area Studies Library, the Urbana Free Library, the Champaign Public Library, and the Art Theater. The NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest. go.illlinois.edu/TheNamesake

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Main Library, Robeson Pavilion Room A & B

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