Banned Books Week Trivia contest
Welcome to UST Banned Books Week Trivia Contest web page!
Such a popular and famous event deserves its own page.
Win a gift certificate to the UST bookstore!
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The fine print.. One question will be posted per day during Banned Books Week. |
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Another year has come and gone, thanks so much to everyone who played and if you are looking for another week of trivia, look no further than the UST Libraries website/Facebook page in April during National Library Week!
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Answer for Friday, October 2nd
The book title I was looking for is One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Merry Prankster Ken Kesey.
Tonight's randomly chosen winner is Daniel Cook
Trivia question for Friday, October 2nd
It is not surprising that someone who volunteered to take part in early experiments that studied the effects of mind altering drugs like LSD would then go on to write a novel that takes place in an insane asylum in which the sympathies lie with a patient who inspires others in the ward to revolt against their oppressive nurses and doctors. It is also not surprising that this book has been challenged on numerous occasions for being 'pornographic' and that it 'glorifies criminal activity, and it has a tendency to corrupt juveniles'.
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Answer for Thursday, October 1st
The Matrix-esque book title I was looking for tonight was Lois Lowry's The Giver.
Tonight's randomly chosen winner is Susan Anderson-Benson
Trivia question for Thursday, October 1st
In 1999, The Matrix was hailed as visionary for presenting a world where nothing exists as we perceive it. However, an earlier Newbery award winning book portrayed a society that on the surface appeared to be a utopian paradise, but when a young boy is given memories from the old world (a red pill if you like) he becomes increasingly disillusioned with the world he now lives in. Because of the book's dark themes it is on the American Library Association's list of the top 100 most frequently challenged books of 1990-1999.
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Answer for Wednesday, Septemeber 30th
Dark and disjointed books are rather common nowadays, but the one that I had in mind that was deemed obscene in 1965 was Naked Lunch by William Burroughs.
Tonight's randomly chosen winner is Kevin Clemens
Trivia question for Wednesday, September 30th
Are you sick and tired of books with plots and linear structure? This son of a predominant St. Louis family didn’t care much of them either. On the surface his most famous book can be seen as a record of a person trying to kick drug addiction; but the disjointed structure and darkly hallucinogenic tone of the novel which satirizes repression and control did not sit well with many people. It was deemed obscene by a Boston, Massachusetts Superior Court in 1965, however that ruling was reversed by the State Supreme Court the following year.
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Answer for Tuesday, September 29th
The coming of age book I was looking for is James Baldwin's 'Go Tell it on the Mountain'.
Tonight's randomly chosen winner from the correct responses is Kathryn Ephgrave
Trivia quesiton for Tuesday, September 29th
One would expect a semi-autobiographical novel about a boy growing up poor in Harlem into a large family with an abusive stepfather who is a Pentecostal minister to touch upon many controversial topics such as race, sexuality and religion. And sure enough, this author's debut novel from 1953 was challenged as a ninth-grade summer reading option in Prince William County, Va. in 1988 because the book was "rife with profanity and explicit sex."
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Answer for Monday, September 28th
The controversial book in question, which also became an equally controversial movie is none other than 'A Clockwork Orange'.
Tonight's randomly chosen winner from the correct responses is Erin Hagen
Trivia Question for Monday, September 28th
According to the ALA, a bookseller in Orem, Utah, was arrested for selling a novel that depicts dystopic England in the not so distant future. Perhaps people objected to the ultraviolence, or perhaps they objected because they did not understand Nadsat (a language portrayed in the book). Can you name the book?
