General Knowledge Quiz 836 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the world governing body WFFA, founded in 2017, concerned with?
2. Where is Denmark Strait?
3. Which cup was originally known as the "Royal Yacht Squadron Cup" , the "RYS Cup for One Hundred Sovereigns" , the "One Hundred Guinea(s) Cup" and the "Queen's Cup" ?
4. What weapons is Xingtian, or Hsing T'ien, a hero of Chinese classical mythology, usually shown wielding?
5. What is the wine-tasting term for the aroma, smell or bouquet of a wine?
6. In 2016 which country invaded northern Syria, and continued to occupy the territory it took?
7. Calvin Klein is associated with which of these brands?
8. Which of these became the highest-placed British dressage rider in the Olympics in 1984 with the horse Wily Trout, won the team gold medal at the 1997 European Championships with the British Event Team, and won the Badminton Horse Trials in 1998 with Word Perfect?
9. Which is one of the matters that marked 2003 of the basketball programme in Baylor University, a private Baptist Christian research university in Waco, Texas?
10. Following August 1945 Mongolia gained its independence from the Republic of China as a result of what?
11. Redfoo and Sky Blu were members of which electronic rock band?
12. The early kings of Scotland are buried on which island?
13. When the Chinese Nationalist Party lost the civil war to the Communist Party in 1949, it relocated to which island and established Taipei as the Republic Of China's provisional capital?
14. The book "Dirty Sexy Politics", released in 2010, was about whose US presidential campaign?
15. The Bombay duck or bummalo is what type of creature?
16. Which of these was a US DJ who was famously disciplined in February 2004 for producing a show described by his boss as "offensive and insulting to anyone with a sense of common decency" ?
17. What is a "billet doux" ?
18. What colour is closest to picallili?
19. Sarah Radclyffe and who else was behind the 1983 formation of Working Films, which was the company behind films such as "My Beautiful Laundrette", "Four Weddings and a Funeral", "The Big Lebowski", "The Theory of Everything" and "The Danish Girl" ?
20. Which birds from around Papua New Guinea and brought to Europe were believed never to land and to be kept aloft by their plumes, because native traders had removed the wings and feet from the specimens?