What links The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Moonfleet? The Saturday quiz

From Glengarry Glen Ross and Lawrence of Arabia to Liz Truss and Lord Salisbury, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

The questions

1 Which dictator spent his last days in power playing Candy Crush?
2 What children’s TV production company was founded by Anne Wood?
3 Rome’s Ludus Magnus was a training school for whom?
4 Where were Liz Truss and Lord Salisbury both appointed prime minister?
5 Referring to 17 metals, what does REE stand for?
6 In the title of an 1886 novel, what is David Balfour’s predicament?
7 Which fish has the scientific name Electrophorus electricus?
8 What sport is the subject of the documentary Love Means Zero?
What links:
9 Booker T & the MG’s; Manfred Mann; Ben Folds Five?
10 Genoese; Lepers; Millionaires; Rat Stabbers; Red Devils?
11 Moonfleet; Three Men in a Boat; The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; Consider Phlebas?
12 Glengarry Glen Ross; Lawrence of Arabia; The Great Escape; 12 Angry Men?
13 Arbuthnot Latham; Coutts; C Hoare; Weatherbys?
14 Horn; Agulhas; Leeuwin; South East; Whiore?
15 Nicholas Breakspear and Robert Prevost?

The answers

1 Bashar al-Assad.
2 Ragdoll.
3 Gladiators.
4 Balmoral.
5 Rare-earth elements.
6 Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson).
7 Electric eel.
8 Tennis.
9 Groups named after keyboardists.
10 Nicknames (translated) of Argentinian football clubs: Boca Juniors; Newell’s Old Boys; River Plate; Estudiantes; Independiente.
11 Work by writers with consecutive initials: J Meade Falkner; Jerome K Jerome; L Frank Baum; Iain M Banks.
12 Films with no female characters.
13 Private banks.
14 Five southernmost or “Great” capes: Chile; South Africa; Australia; Tasmania; New Zealand.
15 English-speaking popes: Adrian IV and Leo XIV.