Win every novel to scoop the Booker Prize

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction celebrates its 40th birthday in 2008. To mark the occasion, Peter Straus, writing in The Times, has compiled a fiendish quiz on the prize's history.

The winner of our exclusive quiz will receive a copy of every Booker-winning work, from the inaugural winner, Something to Answer For by P. H. Newby, to last year's The Gathering by Anne Enright. That's 41 of the best novels (in 1974 and 1992 two winners were awarded) published in the past 40 years.

Three runners-up will each win a set of the past five years' winning books: The Gathering by Anne Enright, The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai, The Sea by John Banville, The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst and Vernon God Little by D.B.C. Pierre.

Send your entries by e-mail only to our books competition email hotline , with Man Booker Prize in the subject line. Include your name, address and telephone number. Do not send any attachments. Entries must be received by 10am on Friday, April 18, and winners and answers will be announced on April 26. You don't have to answer every question to enter. Questions with multiple parts are worth one point per part. Prizes will go to the entries with the most correct answers. In the event of a tie, the winners will be drawn at random.

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) Saville-David Storey, An Instant in the Wind-Andre Brink, Rising - P.C.Hutchinson, The Doctor's Wife - Brian Moore, King Fisher Lives - Julian Rathbone, The Children of Dynmouth - William Trevor, 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?

To mark the Man Booker Prize's 40th anniversary, The Best of the Booker will honour the best overall novel to have won the prize since it was first awarded on April 22, 1969. The judges are Victoria Glendinning, Mariella Frostrup and John Mullan. Their shortlist will be announced on May 14 and public voting will then begin online at the Man Booker Prize site.