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Thomas Eaton

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 over 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:

Pacific climate pattern; Terry Venables; mythical city of gold; Israeli

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