What is the New York Public Library’s most borrowed book of all time?

[4-23-2022] Microsoft Rewards Bing Homepage Quiz Question: What is the New York Public Library’s most borrowed book of all time?

The given options are:

• The Snowy Day
• Catch-22
• The Bluest Eye

Correct Answer: The Snowy Day

Info: In 2020, the NYPL celebrated its 125th birthday. To mark the milestone anniversary, a team of experts evaluated the library’s historical circulation data to learn which books had been borrowed the most. They determined that the 1962 children’s picture book ‘The Snowy Day’ tops the list with 485,583 checkouts, followed by ‘The Cat in the Hat’ (469,650), and ‘1984’ (441,770).

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All three questions from today’s Bing Homepage Quiz are below. You can find their answers by visiting those pages.

1. Which country is home to this eye-shaped library?
2. What is the New York Public Library’s most borrowed book of all time?
3. The deaths of writers Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare were recorded on the same date: April 23, 1616—but that wasn’t the same day. How is that possible?