How well do you know the books of the Baileys prize? – quiz

The 2016 longlist for the Baileys prize. Photograph: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction

1. Who won the very first Orange prize in 1996?

   1. The Book of Colour by Julia Blackburn

   2. A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore

   3. The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan

   4. Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler

2. “And what of this?” His hand lingered over my hips, drew down the line of my thigh. “Have I spoken of it?” Who are these lovers, from a prize winning book?

   1. Hortense and Gilbert in Small Island by Andrea Levy

   2. Larry and Dorrie in Larry’s Party by Carol Shields

   3. Lev and Rudy in The Road Home by Rose Tremain

   4. Achilles and Patroclus in The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

3. 

   From where does Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel get its title, Half of a Yellow Sun?

   1. A solar eclipse

   2. A poem by Wole Soyinka

   3. The Biafran flag

   4. Boy soldiers peeing by the side of a road

4. Which Orange prize winning author said: “It is not as meaningful to me to have won the Orange prize as, say, it would have been to win the Booker. Most people who win that prize surely say the same thing: you have eliminated half the human race from applying.”

   1. Barbara Kingsolver

   2. Ann Patchett

   3. Lionel Shriver

   4. Zadie Smith

5. On the other hand, who said: “LET THE LADIES HAVE OUR FUCKING PRIZE. Women can be successful novelists, but we don't win shit.”

   1. Ali Smith

   2. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

   3. Lindy West

   4. Margaret Atwood

6. Which winner opens with the sentence: “For you. You’ll soon. You’ll give her name. In the stitches of her skin she’ll wear your say."

   1. The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht

   2. A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride

   3. How to be Both by Ali Smith

   4. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

7. 

   In Marilynne Robinson’s Home, what is Gilead?

   1. A town in Iowa

   2. A village in Illinois

   3. The Ames family homestead

   4. A beloved dog

8. Which author has been nominated the most times, with no wins?

   1. Donna Tartt

   2. Barbara Kingsolver

   3. Margaret Atwood

   4. Kate Atkinson

9. Which nationality has won the prize most often: British, American, Australian or Canadian writers?

   1. British

   2. American

   3. Australian

   4. Canadian

10. Which revolutionary appears in Barbara Kingsolver’s Mexico-set The Lacuna?

    1. Castro

    2. Trotsky

    3. Guevara

    4. Zapata

Solutions

1:B, 2:D, 3:C, 4:C, 5:C, 6:B, 7:A, 8:C - Atwood has been nominated in 1997, 2001 and 2004, but has never won., 9:B - American authors have won the Baileys prize nine times. In comparison, Brits have won it five times, Canadians twice and one Australian., 10:B

Scores

1. 9 and above.

   You were so close – try again for a perfect score?

2. 3 and above.

   You might be longlisted, but you're no way near winning. Read up and try again?

3. 6 and above.

   You might be shortlisted, but you're probably not a winner. Try again?

4. 0 and above.

   You might be longlisted, but you're no way near winning. Read up and try again?

5. 10 and above.

   You deserve your own prize – congrats!