Booked for Controversy
Though it’s considered a masterpiece of Southern literature, this Harper Lee novel is frequently banned for its use of racial slurs and tropes.
What is To Kill A Mockingbird?
A dynamic duo of a plastic cowboy and a delusional astronaut suffer a severe existential crisis after realizing they are just plastic commodities manufactured in a factory.
What is Toy Story?
This is the only even prime number.
What is 2?
This Persian queen risked her life by approaching the King unsummoned to save the Jewish people from Haman’s plot.
Who is Esther?
This pride-loving lion usurped his brother Mufasa and tried to banish his young nephew from the Pride Lands.
Who is Scar?
This facial exercise is often practiced to enhance one's ability to "mog" inferiors.
What is mewing?
In this northernmost state, it is illegal to transport a live moose by strapping it to the top of your car.
What is Alaska?
This J.K. Rowling fantasy series frequently tops banned lists because critics claim it promotes witchcraft and the occult.
What is Harry Potter?
An absentee father tries to forcefully recruit his son into the family aerospace business, resulting in a severe hand injury and a family reunion on a catwalk.
What is Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back?
This word comes from the old Norse term, “hundrath”, which actually means 120 and not 100.
What is hundred?
This foreign queen traveled a long distance with a massive caravan and hard questions to test King Solomon’s legendary wisdom.
Who is the Queen of Sheba?
After a corrupt cosmetics firm tried to murder her for discovering their deadly anti-aging secret, shy graphic designer Patience Phillips was resurrected by an Egyptian cat.
Who is Cat Woman?
This word is used to describe someone who is delusional or holds unrealistic beliefs.
What is Delulu?
According to the statute books in this Southern state, it is explicitly illegal to drive while wearing a blindfold.
What is Alabama?
Though it is the world's best-selling book, this religious text has faced numerous historical bans, including a 1229 decree forbidding laypeople from reading it.
What is The Bible?
A local sheriff, an oceanographer, and an eccentric fisherman form an incredibly dysfunctional boat crew to stop a massive fish from eating all the tourists.
What is Jaws?
The probability of rolling an even number on a standard 6-sided die.
What is 1/2 (or 50%)?
She prayed fervently for a child at the tabernacle in Shiloh and dedicated her son to the Lord's service.
Who is Hannah?
A classic fairy-tale villain defined by her green skin, cackle, and flying monkeys.
Who is the Wicked Witch?
This word describes a person or character who repeats the same actions and seems to have no independant personlaity.
What is an NPC?
In this U.S. state, it is strictly illegal to ride with a gorilla in the backseat of your vehicle.
What is Massachusetts?
Lois Lowry's dystopian novel about a "perfect" society where choice is eliminated was challenged for themes of euthanasia and suicide.
What is The Giver?
A teenager travels back in time to the 1950s, accidentally stops his parents from meeting, and has to dodge his own mother's romantic advances while trying not to fade out of existence.
What is Back to the Future?
Every odd number has this letter in it.
What is an e?
This Kenite tent-dwelling host offered an enemy commander milk and hospitality, then put him to sleep permanently with a tent peg and a mallet.
Who is Jael?
A spiked, fire-breathing turtle dinosaur who suffers from an unhealthy obsession with a monarchy and spends millions of dollars on elaborate lava-filled obstacle courses just to get dumped into them.
Who is Bowzer?
This phrase describes a person who's so immersed in internet culture that they struggle to stop using online slang or references.
What is chronically online?
If you tether an elephant, goat, or alligator to a parking meter, you must pay the standard parking fee for the animal.
What is Florida?
This George Orwell dystopian novel about Big Brother and government surveillance was once banned in the USSR for its anti-communist themes, and challenged in the US for being "pro-communist."
What is 1984?
A group of scientists start a highly unethical pest control business in New York City, using nuclear backpacks to trap stubborn tenants.
What is Ghostbusters?
Most mathematical symbols weren’t invented until the 16th century. Before that, equations were written in these.
What are words?
This high-end purple silk merchant hosted Paul’s church plant in Philippi and became Europe’s first recorded Christian convert.
This wicked Phoenician queen dominated Israel’s politics, promoted Baal worship, and famously met a gruesome end after being thrown from a window.
Who is Jezebel?
This viral phrase, often delivered with a hand gesture, became an internet meme in 2024 and 2025 and is frequently used without any clear meaning.
What is 6-7?
Riding or leading a camel on a public highway is against state law.
What is Nevada?