The Man Booker Prize Quiz 2011
A / B / C1 / Which was the first book to win the Booker Prize? / The Public Image – Muriel Spark / Figures in a Landscape – Barry England / Something to Answer For – P.H. Newby
2 / In 1977 which chair threatened to jump out of the window if Paul Scott’s ‘Staying On’ didn’t win? / Professor Malcolm Bradbury / Lord (Asa) Briggs / Philip Larkin
3 / In which year were only two books shortlisted? / 1973 / 1974 / 1975
4 / Which of the following has never been a Man Booker Prize judge? / Michael Portillo /
Denis Healey
/ Michael Foot5 / Which author famously said that she planned to spend her prize money on building a swimming pool in her house in Provence? /
A.S. Byatt
/ Pat Barker / Anita Brookner6 / Who, at 32, was the youngest ever winner of the Man Booker Prize? / James Kelman / Michael Ondaatje /
Ben Okri
7 / Which five-times shortlisted author did the Man Booker Foundation honour with a posthumous award? / Iris Murdoch / Beryl Bainbridge / J.G. Farrell8 / Which of the following winning books was a first-novel? / The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai / Life of Pi – Yann Martel / Vernon God Little – D.B.C. Pierre
9 / Which novel, at only 132 pages, is the shortest book to have won the prize? / Offshore – Penelope Fitzgerald / On Chesil Beach – Ian Mc Ewan / Last Orders – Graham Swift
10 / In which year was the International Man Booker Prize first awarded? / 2005 / 2007 / 2009
11 / Which Booker Prize judge said of their experience ‘The so-called bitchy world of acting was a Brownie’s tea party compared with the piranha-infested waters of publishing’? / Imogen Stubbs / Fiona Shaw /
Joanna Lumley
12 / Who was the first Irish novelist to win the prize? / John Banville /Roddy Doyle
/ J.G. Farrell13 / In 2008 which novel won the 40th Anniversary ‘Best of Booker’ award? / The Ghost Road – Pat Barker / Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie / Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
14 / The Lost Man Booker Prize was a one-off award to honour books published in which year? / 1970 / 1980 / 1990
15 / Which book is the fastest selling Man Booker winner ever, selling over half a million copies in the UK alone? / Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha – Roddy Doyle / The Finkler Question – Howard Jacobson / Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
16 / Which of these winning titles did not provoke a plagiarism row? / Life of Pi – Yann Martel / Last Orders – Graham Swift / The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga
17 / In which month is the Man Booker prize shortlist usually announced? / August /
September
/October
18 / Which of these shortlisted Thomas Keneally novels went on to win the prize? / Gossip from the Forest / The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith / Schindler’s Ark19 / Which literary festival stages an annual Man Booker event? / Edinburgh /
Cheltenham
/ Hay-on-Wye20 / Who is the only person to have twice chaired the prize? / Peter Carey / David Lodge /