>From time to time we run a trivia contest in the Law Library News column
of our law school's weekly newsletter. In honor of the Super Bowl (and
the end of football season), next week's contest will ask students to match
football terms with their definitions -- as found in Black's Law
Dictionary (6th ed. 1990). Football terms with legal meanings include:
back, block, defense, holding, intercept, line, offense, pass, receiver,
referee, side, team, touch, violation.
America's Pastime has even more terms found in Black's: base line,
battery, bench, bull pen, call, count, ERA, error, fair, home, innings,
lineup, lose, manager, relieve, roster, run, safe, shower, strike, throw
out, umpire.
If you know of other such terms, let me know so I can add them to my list.
Trivia contests are just for amusement -- but they do contribute to the
library's public relations. If law students think -- even for a fleeting
moment -- that the law library staff is friendly and fun, then that's a good
thing. Once in a while the trivia contests inspire a couple students to
look inside books or to do a couple LEXIS or WESTLAW searches, and that's
a good thing, too. (Does it rise to the level of a "teachable moment"?)
Mary Whisner, Head of Reference Telephone: (206) 543-6794
Gallagher Law Library FAX: (206) 685-2165
University of Washington Internet: whisner@u.washington.edu
1100 NE Campus Pkwy, JB-20
Seattle, WA 98105
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