General Knowledge Quiz 780 (20 MCQs)

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1. Zhou Yang, gold medal winner at the Winter Olympics 2010, made the news again later by being chided by China's deputy sports minister Yu Zaiqing for thanking her parents, but not her country, for her win. She had won gold in what sport?
2. Where is the Senkaku / Diaoyu / Tiaoyutai / Pinnacle group of islands?
3. The land of Azeroth features in which video game?
4. Research into ocean mixing, of oxygen and nutrients from and to surface and seabed, highlights the influence of which minute animals?
5. Minsk, capital of Belarus, is twinned with over 20 other cities, including which?
6. What kind of animal is a Turkish Van?
7. The Colossus, one of the seven wonders of the world, was built where?
8. Who presents the UK TV natural history series "Life Story" (2014)?
9. Wynton Marsalis is known for playing what type of music?
10. By what name is Reg Dwight better known?
11. Something tense and exciting is what "biting" ?
12. How many points can you get in Pontoon without going bust?
13. Which of these was a leading figure in the pop art movement, who became famous as a painter, avant-garde filmmaker, record producer and author?
14. Who began producing accounts of debates in the British parliament in 1803, the work continued by his family until it was taken over by the staff of "The Times" in 1895?
15. What is the name given to a bone fracture when one part of it is driven into another?
16. For what quality was the first Nobel Prize in Literature awarded?
17. Which country holds Africa's highest point?
18. 24 carat is the highest measure of the purity of what precious metal?
19. Which part of the body is made up of a series of vertebrae?
20. Which was the last unit in the International System of Units still directly defined by an artefact?