Censorship by Numbers
Censorship by Numbers
First Amendment
Personal Inquiry
Personal Inquiry
100
This is where most challenged take place.
What is the public library?
100
These are some of the reasons books are challenged.
What is sexual explicitness, violence, and LGBTQIA+ themes?
100
These are the five freedoms under the First Amendment.
What are the freedoms of speech, religion, press, petition, and assemble?
100
This is the year that Banned Books Week start.
What is 1982?
100
This is the most challenged book in the US.
What is the Adventures of Tom Sawyer?
200
This is the attempt to remove or restrict materials based on content.
What is a challenge?
200
This is the second most frequent location where books are challenged.
What are public school libraries?
200
This is the most known First Amendment freedom of adults in America.
What is the Freedom of Speech?
200
Schools can ban types of hairstyles depending on this _____.
Where you live?
200
A book will not be removed if people protest this.
What is a challenge?
300
This group represents the lowest percentage of initiated challenges (less than 1%).
What are students?
300
This is 2020's theme to Banned Books Week.
What is CENSORSHIP IS A DEAD END?
300
This is the right to express oneself.
What is Freedom of Speech?
300
The famous series by JK Rowling was banned for this reason.
What is witchcraft?
300
This refers to the right of a university to determine its educational mission free from governmental intervention.
What is academic freedom?
400
This is the group that initiates most challenges.
What are patrons of public libraries?
400
This is the percent increase of total materials affected in censorship attempts in 2019 (including books, films, and newspapers).
What is +14%?
400
This is the percentage rounded to the nearest tens of adults who agree that the spread of fake news and misinformation on the internet is a serious threat to our democracy.
What is 80% (76%)?
400
Freedom of speech does not protect threatening a human life. This is called.
What is hate speech?
400
Students do not need to stand for this activity.
What is the Pledge of Allegiance?
500
They tracked 377 challenges in 2019. You must get two of the six words--acronym is ALA OIF.
What is the American Library Association’s Office of Intellectual Freedom?
500
This is the percentage of students initiating challenges.
What is 1%?
500
These are the words that fill in the blanks: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of _____, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of _____, or of the _____; or the right of the people peaceably to _____, and _____ the Government for a redress of grievances.
What are RELIGION, SPEECH, PRESS, ASSEMBLE, and PETITION?
500
This was the most challenged book of 2019.
What is George by Alex Gino? 
500
Public schools may impose this on its student body.
What is a dress code?