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Can you answer these past and present posers?

Questions from 1980

1. The main street in Leningrad might remind you of a river or a Russian national hero. What is the name of the street?

2. What was the name of the law that was passed in 1495 which made the Irish parliament subordinate to the English parliament and Privy Council? 3. What book by Somerset Maugham has the alternative title The British Agent?

Questions from 2022 (taken from next week’s episode)

4. The current British women’s No1 tennis player, Emma Raducanu, won which one of the four Grand Slam titles in 2021?

5. Which British theatre and famous snooker venue shares its name with a 1953 play by Arthur Miller?

6. First opening in 2010, the show Love Never Dies is the sequel to which longrunning musical?

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