What links Terry Venables and a mythical city of gold? The Saturday quiz

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From bauxite and galena to the sport of buhurt, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

1 Whose Salvator Mundi went from £45 to $450m in 59 years?
2 In mountaineering, what achievement is abbreviated as FA?
3 Mary Surratt was hanged in 1865 for her part in what?
4 Which online library has more than 70,000 free ebooks?
5 Which African monarch visited Jamaica in 1966?
6 Combatants in the sport of buhurt dress as what?
7 What record of life aspirations was popularised by a Jack Nicholson film?
8 Who revealed the Qur’an to Muhammad?
What links:
9 Pacific climate pattern; Terry Venables; mythical city of gold; Israeli airline?
10 Bauxite; cinnabar; galena; hematite; malachite?
11 Han van Meegeren; Tom Keating; Eric Hebborn; Pei-Shen Qian?
12 Creases (7); Intervals (11); Timed out (40); Unfair play (41)?
13 Charlotte Amalie; Hagåtña; Pago Pago; Saipan; San Juan?
14 Personne n’y avait pensé!; À prendre ou à laisser; Qui veut gagner des millions?
15 Finchley; Maidenhead; South West Norfolk?

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