Don't you DARE read that book! and other Library Trivia

Question 1

What was the most banned book in the United States in 2013?

Accepted Answer

Captain Underpants

Question 2

The first American writer to earn $1 million dollars for his published works

Accepted Answer

Jack London

Question 3

Mazarine Library is the oldest public library in which country?

Accepted Answer

France

Question 4

What world leader used the pseudonym Jacob Richter to use the British Museum's Reading Room?

Accepted Answer

Lenin

Question 5

The Dewey Decimal System is named for

Accepted Answer

Melvil Dewey

Question 6

What Stephen King novel features a librarian -- the keeper of ancient secrets and fights evil?

Accepted Answer

It

Question 7

Which of these authors has won the Newbery Award twice?

Accepted Answer

Joseph Krumgold

Question 8

When and where was the first Carnegie Public Library built?

Accepted Answer

Scotland in 1883

Question 9

What is the largest library system in the world?

Accepted Answer

Library of Congress

Question 10

David McCullough did not write which book?

Accepted Answer

War and Peace

Question 11

What are the names of the stone lions in front of the New York Public Libary?

Accepted Answer

Patience and Fortitude

Question 12

This book was removed from a middle school library in Florida in June 2013.

Accepted Answer

Paper Towns

Question 13

Which author is not a Nobel Prize winner?

Accepted Answer

James Joyce

Question 14

A book challenged for 70 years, the same amount of time it has been in publication, is:

Accepted Answer

To Kill a Mockingbird

Question 15

Where was the first free municipal library opened in North America?

Accepted Answer

Boston

Question 16

The group that asks for books to be banned most often is

Accepted Answer

parents

Question 17

This library cat was the subject of a 2008 New York Times best seller.

Accepted Answer

Dewey Readmore Books

Question 18

J K Rowling also writes under the pen name

Accepted Answer

Robert Galbraith

Question 19

From 2000 - 2009 the biggest reason books were banned was because they were

Accepted Answer

sexually explicit

Question 20

The Bodleian Library is the main research library of what university?

Accepted Answer

University of Oxford

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