Spot the link quiz

Which city, home to Tiger Stadium and the Magnolia Mound Museum and Historic Site, is the state capital of Louisiana?

Which Roman Emperor, who had St Peter crucified on what is now the site of the Vatican, had the Domus Aurea built as a massive palace complex on the Oppian Hill near the Roman Forum?

What is the name of the mountain on the French/ Italian border that is the highest mountain in the European Alps?

Which Texas city, a mainstay on Route 66, did Tony Christie sing about in 1971 – even though the song was originally written by Neil Sedaka?

Which Madrid-born artist, most closely associated with cubism, painted The Musician’s Table in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Portrait of Pablo Picasso in the Art Institute of Chicago?

Which island nation off the coast of Africa, increasingly popular with Europeans as a winter sun destination, has its national capital Praia on the island of Santiago?

What name is shared by the longest river in South Africa, a county in California famous for a TV show and a wine-making city in New South Wales, Australia?

What flowers are predominantly grown at the Princess Grace Garden in Monaco, the Zakir Hussain Garden in Chandigarh, India, and the White House garden established by First Lady Ellen Axson Wilson in Washington DC?

Which crisp, usually light-bodied Italian wine is made from red grapes, but became known as a white wine in the 1960s when the Santa Margherita group started fermenting the grapes without the skins?

What links all nine previous correct answers?