General Knowledge Quiz 535 (20 MCQs)

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1. In what country, with considerable mineral and coal wealth and so abundantly fertile it has been described as a jewel of Africa, did the inflation rate during 2008 skyrocket to 231, 150, 888.87%?
2. Why did Netflix announce in January 2019 that it would shoot its series "OBX" in South Carolina instead of North Carolina?
3. "By Jeeves", a musical first performed in 1996, substantially rewritten from their work "Jeeves" in 1975, was composed by whom with whose book and lyrics?
4. On which ship did Israel launch an unprovoked attack during the height of the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War in 1967?
5. In which century was the Suez Canal opened?
6. What was the name of the operation whereby 1, 373 U.S. citizens and 5, 595 Vietnamese and foreign nationals were evacuated from the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon on 29 and 30 April 1975?
7. What sign of the zodiac is represented by a bull?
8. When North Korea participated in the 2018 Winter Olympics it agreed to march with South Korea in the opening ceremony, but for the Paralympics it did not. What was the reason?
9. A film released in 2000 starring Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Robert Knott, Bud Cort, Molly Regan, Marcia Gay Harden and Sada Thompson tells the life story of which painter?
10. Which of these was an American astronomer?
11. Which team won the Hockey World Cup the most times between 2000 and 2010?
12. Which applies to Danish-Australian golf professional Mianne Bagger?
13. Seoul in South Korea is closer to which of these?
14. The sausage tree, Kigelia or Worsboom is native to which continent?
15. Donna Summer was popular in what genre of music?
16. How did Jeff Stone, at the time Gilooly, figure in the 1994 Winter Olympic Games?
17. Whose song begins with the lyrics "I wanna hold em' like they do in Texas Plays, Fold em' let em' hit me raise it baby stay with me, Luck and intuition play the cards with Spades to start, And after he's been hooked I'll play the one that's on his heart" ?
18. What is the nationality of the football player Ronaldinho?
19. "Seeds of Change:Planting a Path to Peace" is a graphic biography of Kenyan scientist Wangari Maathai, the first African woman and the first what to win a Nobel Peace Prize (in 2004)?
20. Ted Sorensen was an advisor, lawyer and writer, best known as special counsel and adviser, speechwriter and alter ego to which US president, whom he called his "intellectual blood bank" ?