Villains
Banned Books
Sources for Misguided Attempts at Pop Culture References
BYU English Professor says?
Which poet?
100
In 2026, British entertainer Cynthia Erivo portrayed all 23 characters in a production named for this iconic literary villain.
Who is Dracula (or Count Dracula)?
100
In a 1995 film, the teenage heartthrob pictured above played Tom, the best friend of this oft-banned protagonist.
Who is Huckleberry Finn?
100
Taylor—not the global pop phenomenon but the Canadian philosopher.
Who is Charles Taylor?
100
"Bricolage, as a theory of inventing from limited resources, is a powerful way to understand how Graduate Student Instructors enact resourcefulness in their pedagogical decision-making."
Who is Meridith Reed?
100
The old, without waiting to speak
Their parting lines in the act,
Learned to exit the way of pipe-smoke.
Uttered nothing. Utter tact.
Who is John Talbot?
200
This American literary villain is featured during Tuptim's theatrical presentation in the 1956 film, The King and I.
Who is Simon Legree?
200
Several current English faculty read this book for the first time in this very department, though a 1960s high school teacher was once fired for assigning the text because of the protagonist's adolescent proclivity for the profane.
What is The Catcher in the Rye?
200
This 20th-century American composer is best known for a short work, each of whose three movements consists only of the same instruction: "Tacet."
Who is John Cage?
200
"For Spenser, true regeneration necessarily is entangled with its false counterpart. The knight knows the right path because he has traveled the wrong one; a believer can ascertain his or her regenerate state because he or she knows what false regeneration feels like."
Who is Brice Peterson?
200
It takes a calendar one damp day to declare fall,
weeks of dying mums to second the motion.
Who is Lance Larsen?
300
According to the local sheriff, this literary villain "fell on his knife."
Who is Robert (Bob) Ewell?
300
This Shakespeare play has been banned at different times in multiple states because of its ostensibly antisemitic portrayal of Shylock.
What is The Merchant of Venice?
300
DAILY DOUBLE
This 1939 novel concludes with the first half of its opening sentence and is only sort of written in English.
300
"In Woolf’s hands, Betty Flanders becomes the monument the war forgot to build."
Who is Jarica Watts?
300
Let us consider the disintegration
of the body. Then let us consider
what remains. Let us consider Echo,
cursed to have whatever she said said
first for her, how she slinked after that boy,
as timid as a lynxlet, starved and love-sick,
dissipating into dust, to nothing
but a voice. Not even bones remained.
Who is Michael Lavers?
400
The creator of this literary villain describes her as a woman whose beauty conceals a “secret and shameful urge to be evil."
Who is Kathy Trask? Or Kathy Ames, her unmarried name.
400
This American poet received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama and recited her poetry at Bill Clinton’s inauguration, yet her autobiographical book has been banned many times because it, according to the Alabama state textbook committee, “preaches bitterness and hatred against whites."
Who is Maya Angelou?
400
This 13th-century theologian argued for the univocity of being and developed a robust account of the distinction between potentia absoluta and potentia ordinata.
Who is Duns Scotus?
400
"When we were just teenagers, this friend of mine bought a suit of armor. To get it, he worked an extra job and saved every penny. And he could talk of nothing else."
Who is Steve Tuttle?
400
The asphalt ahead's gleamed to a high glare
and I play my pedal past the red line, and faster.
Must be what faith feels like, to drive believing in the persistence of highway lines
Who is Kimberly Johnson?