1) Who was the only debut novelist to win the prize and then go on to publish a second novel?

2) Which was the first second novel to win?

3) Who are these authors and why is this an ageist question?

4) Which unfinished novel was shortlisted?

5) Which was the first novel originally written in Afrikaans to be shortlisted?

6) Which author and which book was selected for the shortlist but removed at the wish of the author?

7) Which author found himself pitted against another to whom he had earlier given the prize?

8) When the prize was founded he was a man. But he was shortlisted as a woman. Who is she?

9) Which was the most catty of the winning author's speeches?

10) Which winner ends with the following sentence? "He was intent, as though he had finally managed to strike a light with a damp match and was protecting it in the wind."

11) Which winner underwent changes between the first published edition and the finished UK edition?

12) What do The Beggar Maid and Who Do You Think You Are? have in common?

13) One winning author's two shortlisted books had different titles in the United States. Name the author and the original and the American titles.

14) Who is "the perpetual Booker Prize bridesmaid", having been shortlisted five times but never having won?

15) Which winning book nearly had all the poetry taken out of it by its American editor?

16) Which shortlisted book was first self-published by the author in England?

17) Which book won two years after its first publication?

18) Name two shortlisted books with dedications to other shortlisted authors.

19) How many "sea" books have won? Give the titles and authors.

20) Which book's format and title changed when it was shortlisted? Name the original title, the title after being shortlisted and the author.

21) Whose first three novels were all shortlisted for the prize? Name the author and the titles.

22) Which shortlisted title began as a Granta book but ended up a Cape book? Or are you in the dark about this?

23) Saul Bellow and John Fowles were judges. Name the year and the winner.

24) Which shortlisted author, whose use of bad language was considered in poor taste by some, was treated with contempt by the chairman of the judges but ten years later went on to win the award, much to the annoyance of at least one judge?

25) These books were all shortlisted in 1976. What else links their authors?

26) How many first books have been shortlisted? Name the authors and the books.

27) Who has won twice but never turned up to collect his prize?

28) Which winner ends like this? "Perhaps, by the very end of his life, in 1880, he had come to believe that a people, a nation, does not create itself according to its own best ideas, but is shaped by other forces, of which it has little knowledge."

29) Which author's butler beat which author's murderer to win? Name the authors and the books.

30) And when did the authorial reverse happen?

31) Which bravura shortlisted novel contained this paragraph? "There shall be no more novels which are really about other novels. No ‘modern versions', reworkings, sequels or prequels. No imaginative completions of works left unfinished on their author's death. Instead, every writer is to be issued with a sampler in coloured wools to hang over the fireplace. It reads: Knit Your Own Stuff."

32) Name the seven winners whose first books were poetry. And name the poetry books.

33) Name the poet who threatened to defenestrate himself when he was a judge if his choice did not win. And name the choice.

34) Name the poet who gave the prize to an author who had dedicated a previous work to the threatened defenestree.

35) What is unique about the book of this author among all the others shortlisted?

36) What is unique about this book ?

37) Who beat her mother to the prize?

38) And which winner beat his son?

39) Name three shortlisted books dedicated to their editors.

40) What do these authors have in common?