Banned Books
In recognition of Banned Books Week, test your audience with this trivia game featuring frequently banned and challenged books.
15 questions · Published September 6, 2022
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. What 1953 novel, in which books are outlawed and routinely destroyed, has frequently been sanitized, censored, and outright banned?
FUN FACT
Part of what inspired Ray Bradbury to write "Fahrenheit 451" (1953) was the McCarthy Era Communist witch-hunt of the early 1950s.
- Multiple Choice
2. Cory Silverberg's oft-banned book "______ is a Funny Word" was created as an educational resource for children ages eight to ten.
Written by sex educator Cory Silverberg, "Sex is a Funny Word" (2015) was created to open up conversations between young people and their caregivers. It has frequently been challenged because it addresses the delicate topic of sex education and has been accused of leading children to want to have sex or ask questions about sex.
- Multiple Choice
3. What mild epithet led to the periodic banning of Lane Smith's children's book "It's a Book"?
In "It's a Book" (2010), a tech-obsessed donkey is baffled by something bizarre that a monkey is holding: a book. The donkey simply cannot grasp the concept of something that doesn't scroll, tweet, or make noise. And each time he asks about a different feature, the monkey responds, "No. It's a book." That is until the last line, after the donkey, who has taken the book and is reading it, offers to charge it when he's done. The monkey chastises him, saying, "It's a book, jackass."
- Multiple Choice
4. A school district in which U.S. state banned Art Speigelman's Holocaust graphic novel, "Maus," in January 2022?
Art Spiegelman's 1991 graphic novel "Maus," the only graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize, was famously banned in a unanimous decision by a Tennessee school board in January 2022. The resulting backlash led "Maus" to the number one spot on Amazon's best-sellers list for the month.
- Multiple Choice
5. What animal does the titular Siamese cat believe himself to be in the oft-challenged children's book "Skippyjon Jones"?
Because of his oversized head and ears and undersized tail, Skippyjon Jones doesn't look like his mother and sisters and concludes that he must be a chihuahua. Author Judith Schachner's book has often been criticized and banned for perpetuating racial stereotypes about Latinos and its use of broken Spanish.
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