Statistics for The Man Booker Prize winners

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Year and title	Answer	% Correct
1981: Midnight's Children	Salman Rushdie	86%
2009: Wolf Hall	Hilary Mantel	77%
2012: Bring Up the Bodies	Hilary Mantel	68%
1978: The Sea, the Sea	Iris Murdoch	67%
1989: The Remains of the Day	Kazuo Ishiguro	66%
2002: Life of Pi	Yann Martel	66%
1997: The God of Small Things	Arundhati Roy	64%
1990: Possession	A. S. Byatt	59%
1998: Amsterdam	Ian McEwan	58%
2000: The Blind Assassin	Margaret Atwood	57%
1993: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha	Roddy Doyle	57%
1999: Disgrace	J. M. Coetzee	53%
2001: True History of the Kelly Gang	Peter Carey	52%
1988: Oscar and Lucinda	Peter Carey	50%
1982: Schindler's Ark	Thomas Keneally	45%
2011: The Sense of an Ending	Julian Barnes	44%
1983: Life & Times of Michael K	J. M. Coetzee	43%
1992: The English Patient	Michael Ondaatje	43%
1980: Rites of Passage	William Golding	43%
1986: The Old Devils	Kingsley Amis	41%
1995: The Ghost Road	Pat Barker	41%
2004: The Line of Beauty	Alan Hollinghurst	39%
2005: The Sea	John Banville	39%
2003: Vernon God Little	DBC Pierre	35%
1987: Moon Tiger	Penelope Lively	35%
1984: Hotel du Lac	Anita Brookner	34%
1991: The Famished Road	Ben Okri	34%
1996: Last Orders	Graham Swift	34%
1971: In A Free State	V. S. Naipaul	32%
1985: The Bone People	Keri Hulme	31%
1973: The Siege of Krishnapur	J. G. Farrell	30%
2006: The Inheritance of Loss	Kiran Desai	30%
1969: Something to Answer For	P. H. Newby	30%
2017: Lincoln in the Bardo	George Saunders	29%
2010: The Finkler Question	Howard Jacobson	29%
2013: The Luminaries	Eleanor Catton	28%
1970 (retrospective award): Troubles	J. G. Farrell	28%
1972: G.	John Berger	28%
2015: A Brief History of Seven Killings	Marlon James	28%
1974: The Conservationist	Nadine Gordimer	27%
1977: Staying On	Paul Scott	25%
1979: Offshore	Penelope Fitzgerald	25%
2016: The Sellout	Paul Beatty	24%
1970: The Elected Member	Bernice Rubens	23%
2014: The Narrow Road to the Deep North	Richard Flanagan	23%
1975: Heat and Dust	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	23%
2007: The Gathering	Anne Enright	21%
2008: The White Tiger	Aravind Adiga	21%
1992: Sacred Hunger	Barry Unsworth	21%
1994: How Late It Was, How Late	James Kelman	20%
1974: Holiday	Stanley Middleton	20%
1976: Saville	David Storey	19%