Booker Prize - 2025 ACF Fall

Question

In 1985, this prize’s jury was divided over a Keri Hulme (“hulm”) novel that detailed an abusive relationship between the mute boy Simon and his father Joe. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this prize that was long-awarded to Commonwealth, Irish and South African novels before being expanded to all English-language fiction in 2014.

ANSWER: Booker Prize [accept Man Booker Prize]

[10h] Keri Hulme won the Booker Prize for this debut novel in which the part-Maori artist Kerewin befriends Simon before eventually adopting him to form a family.

ANSWER: The Bone People

[10e] In The Bone People, Kerewin meets Simon when he sneaks into a secluded one of these structures where she lives. A prince is blinded after marrying a girl locked in one of these structures in the Grimms’ version of “Rapunzel.”

ANSWER: towers [reject “castle”]

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Summary


Southern California	Main	Y	7	17.14	100%	57%	14%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	12	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	6	18.33	100%	83%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	12	14.17	92%	42%	8%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	18.89	100%	89%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	11	17.27	91%	82%	0%
Pacific	Main	Y	9	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	16.67	92%	67%	8%
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	20.00	100%	100%	0%
UK (South)	UK	Y	8	18.75	100%	88%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%

Data


UCSD A	Claremont B	10	10	10	30
UCLA F	UCLA A	0	0	10	10
UCLA C	UCLA D	0	0	10	10
UC Irvine	USC A	10	0	10	20
Claremont A	UC Santa Barbara	10	0	10	20
Claremont C	UCLA E	0	0	10	10
UCSD B	UCLA B	10	0	10	20
Toronto A	Toronto D	10	0	10	20
Toronto B	Waterloo A	10	0	10	20
Toronto E	Waterloo C	10	0	10	20
Toronto F	Brock A	10	0	10	20
McMaster B	Toronto G	10	0	10	20
Toronto H	McMaster C	10	0	10	20
Queen's A	Toronto I	10	0	10	20
Michigan B	CWRU A	10	0	10	20
CWRU B	Michigan State A	10	0	10	20
Michigan A	Louisville A	10	0	10	20
Louisville B	Ohio State B	0	0	10	10
CWRU C	Louisville D	10	0	10	20
Michigan C	Ohio State A	10	0	10	20
Michigan D	Kentucky	10	0	10	20
Michigan State B	CWRU D	0	0	10	10
Ohio State D	Michigan State D	0	0	10	10
Ohio State C	Pittsburgh	10	0	10	20
Louisville C	WVU A	10	0	10	20
WVU B	Michigan State C	0	0	10	10
JMU A	Duke A	10	0	10	20
Liberty C	Liberty B	10	0	10	20
Tusculum A	JMU B	0	0	10	10
UNC D	VCU A	10	0	10	20
Virginia Tech C	UNC B	10	0	10	20
William & Mary B	Liberty A	10	0	10	20
Guelph A	Waterloo B	10	0	10	20
McMaster A	Toronto C	10	0	10	20
Rutgers B	Columbia A	0	0	10	10
George Mason A	Maryland A	10	10	10	30
Vassar A	George Mason B	0	0	10	10
NYU C	George Mason C	0	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins	Penn	10	0	0	10
Princeton	Lehigh B	0	0	10	10
Maryland C	Maryland B	0	0	10	10
NYU B	Lehigh A	10	0	10	20
NYU A	Rutgers A	10	0	10	20
Rowan	Rutgers C	10	0	10	20
Stony Brook	Rutgers D	0	0	10	10
Vassar B	Columbia B	0	0	10	10
Illinois Blue	WashU Grizzlers	10	0	10	20
William Woods University A	Chicago B	10	0	10	20
Illinois Canada	Illinois Urbana	10	0	10	20
Iowa A	Illinois Champaign	10	0	10	20
Illinois Orange	Rose-Hulman A	10	0	10	20
Chicago A	Indiana A	10	0	10	20
Indiana B	Iowa B	0	0	10	10
Purdue A	Purdue B	10	0	10	20
WashU Grolars	Purdue C	10	0	10	20
Amherst A	Williams A	10	0	10	20
Williams B	Boston College A	10	0	10	20
Boston University A	Tufts B	10	0	10	20
Brown B	Brandeis Mozart	10	0	10	20
Tufts A	Dartmouth A	10	0	10	20
Dartmouth C	MIT B	0	0	10	10
Southern Connecticut State University A	Amherst B	10	0	10	20
Tufts C	Boston College B	10	0	0	10
Brandeis Bach	Vermont A	10	0	10	20
Vermont B	Brown A	10	0	10	20
Brandeis Beethoven	Williams C	0	0	10	10
Alberta A	Washington Pink	10	0	10	20
British Columbia C	Arizona State B	10	0	10	20
Washington Sockeye	British Columbia A	10	0	10	20
Washington State	British Columbia B	10	0	10	20
Arizona State A	Texas	10	0	10	20
Washington Atlantic	Washington Masu	10	0	10	20
Washington Chinook	Alberta B	0	0	10	10
Washington Chum	Washington Steelhead	0	0	10	10
Washington Coho	Boise State	0	0	10	10
Emory A	Georgia Tech B	10	0	10	20
Auburn A	Georgia Tech F	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech A	Vanderbilt A	10	0	10	20
Alabama A	Georgia Tech C	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Clemson C	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech E	Tennessee Tech	0	0	10	10
Mississippi State A	Auburn C	10	0	10	20
Sewanne	Clemson B	0	0	10	10
South Carolina A	Chipola College	10	0	10	20
Clemson A	Tennessee A	10	0	0	10
Vanderbilt C	Vanderbilt B	0	0	10	10
Georgia A	Auburn B	10	0	10	20
Durham A	Durham C	10	0	10	20
Edinburgh A	Edinburgh D	10	0	10	20
Sheffield B	Sheffield A	10	0	10	20
York	Durham B	10	0	10	20
Edinburgh B	Edinburgh C	10	0	10	20
Bristol	Oxford	10	0	10	20
Cambridge A	Cambridge B	10	0	10	20
Cambridge D	Birmingham	10	0	10	20
Imperial A	Imperial B	10	0	10	20
Imperial D	Imperial C	10	0	10	20
Cambridge E	LSE	0	0	10	10
Cardiff	Southampton	10	0	10	20
Warwick	Cambridge C	10	0	10	20
Binghamton C	ESF	0	0	10	10
RIT A	Binghamton A	10	0	10	20
Binghamton B	Cornell D	0	0	10	10
Cornell A	RIT B	0	0	10	10
Cornell C	Cornell B	10	0	10	20