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Test your recall of people and events from the past in this month’s quiz. (Answers are over the page.)

What in the mid-Seventies caused 6.5 million deaths Name the controversial Yorkshireman who in 1977 completed a century of centuries. Name the government minister who in 1983 resigned in disgrace after his secretary, who was pregnant, went to the newspapers to ‘put the record straight’ about her relationship with her married boss. Which politician and author, in the late Eighties, won a libel action against the over what they claimed was a 'pay-off he made to a young lady? Name the outspoken tennis player who, after a young Swede won Wimbledon - again - in 1980, said: “I wish he would let someone else have a go for a change.“

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