BOOK JEOPARDY

A Social Game for Book Lovers

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For the ultimate in entertainment, play with 2 or more people, individually or as a team

Players alternate turnsEach player picks an “answer” and must guess

the “question” that goes with itPlayer picks a category and point value to see

the “answer”Answers must be given in a “question” format

to earn the pointsThe player or team with the most points wins!Be sure to keep track of your points!

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NEWBERY AWARD

WINNERS

BANNEDBOOKS

NAME THE NOVEL

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This 1994 winner by Lois Lowry is set in a utopian society, where a boy named Jonas becomes the new “Receiver of Memory”.

Newbery Award Winners – 100.0

What is The Giver?

Newbery Award Winners – 100.0

Katherine Paterson’s 1978 winner was made into a Disney movie in 2007. It is about two kids who create their own fantasy world.

Newbery Award Winners – 200.0

What is Bridge to Terabithia?

Newbery Award Winners – 200.0

This 1968 winner by E.L. Konigsburg is about a brother and a sister who runaway to New York City and live in a museum.

Newbery Award Winners – 300.0

What is From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler?

Newbery Award Winners – 300.0

This 2009 winner by Neil Gaiman is about a boy named Nobody Owens who is raised by ghosts in a graveyard after

his family is murdered.

Newbery Award Winners – 400.0

What is The Graveyard Book?

Newbery Award Winners – 400.0

Louis Sachar’s 1999 winner is set at Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention camp for boys located

in a desert wasteland.

Newbery Award Winners – 500.0

What is Holes?

Newbery Award Winners – 500.0

Mark Twain’s 1884 American classic was first banned in 1885 in Concord,

MA. Frequent challenges have centered around its portrayal of racism.

Banned Books – 100.1

What is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

Banned Books – 100.1

This 1987 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Toni Morrison gets parental complaints

frequently due to its sexual content, violence, and portrayal of bestiality.

Banned Books – 200.1

What is Beloved?

Banned Books – 200.1

You get to select your own wager!How much are you willing to risk?

Banned Books – 300.1

Daily Double!!!

This Harper Lee classic from 1960 gets challenged by those who believe it promotes

white supremacy.

Banned Books – 300.1

What is To Kill a Mockingbird?

Banned Books – 300.1

This J.D. Salinger 1951 novel with Holden Caulfield has been called obscene, foul, and

unmoral by those who try to ban it.

Banned Books – 400.1

What is Catcher in the Rye?

Banned Books – 400.1

This 1903 Jack London novel about a man and a dog was considered too violent and

radical and was even burned in Nazi Germany bonfires.

Banned Books – 500.1

What is The Call of the Wild?

Banned Books – 500.1

Elizabeth Bennet

Name the Novel – 100.2

What is Pride and Prejudice?

Name the Novel – 100.2

Atticus Finch

Name the Novel – 200.2

What is To Kill a Mockingbird?

Name the Novel – 200.2

Jo March

Name the Novel – 300.2

What is Little Women?

Name the Novel – 300.2

Jay Gatsby

Name the Novel – 400.2

What is The Great Gatsby?

Name the Novel – 400.2

Scarlett O’Hara

Name the Novel – 500.2

What is Gone With the Wind?

Name the Novel – 500.2

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom,

it was the age of foolishness…”

Famous Opening Lines – 100.3

What is A Tale of Two Cities?

Famous Opening Lines – 100.3

“Call me Ishmael.”

Famous Opening Lines – 200.3

What is Moby-Dick?

Famous Opening Lines – 200.3

“All children, except one, grow up.”

Famous Opening Lines – 300.3

What is Peter Pan?

Famous Opening Lines – 300.3

“He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone

eighty-four days now without taking a fish.”

Famous Opening Lines – 400.3

What is The Old Man and the Sea?

Famous Opening Lines – 400.3

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”

Famous Opening Lines – 500.3

What is Nineteen Eighty-Four?

Famous Opening Lines – 500.3

This main character attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Famous Characters– 100.4

Who is Harry Potter?

Famous Characters– 100.4

This main character battled and won the Hunger Games.

Famous Characters– 200.4

Who is Katniss Everdeen?

Famous Characters– 200.4

This character is a hobbit hired by the wizard Gandalf to serve as a

burglar to reclaim treasure from the dragon Smaug.

Famous Characters– 300.4

Who is Bilbo Baggins?

Famous Characters– 300.4

This character lives in his submarine called the Nautilus and roams the

oceans in a quest for knowledge and revenge.

Famous Characters– 400.4

Who is Captain Nemo?

Famous Characters– 400.4

This character is a pirate who has a parrot named Captain Flint.

Famous Characters– 500.4

Who is Long John Silver?

Famous Characters– 500.4

FINAL JEOPARDY

This award honors the best written book for teens each year.

FINAL JEOPARDY

What is the Michael L. Printz Award?

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