General Knowledge Quiz 763 (20 MCQs)

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1. How many members of a netball team are allowed to shoot at goal?
2. When did Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam and others found the militant movement, Al-Qaeda?
3. For which of these would the term "breeze" not be appropriate?
4. Which of these motor vehicle manufacturers is not based in South Korea?
5. Poets Sarah Holland-Batt, Libby Hart, David Musgrave, Kathryn Lomer and Bronwyn Lea are from which country?
6. In which country were 29 miners killed after 2 explosions in the Pike River Mine in November 2010, making it the most-deadly mining disaster there in 96 years?
7. Teammates and vigorous competitors, Formula One drivers Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton, both drove for which team until 2016?
8. After the signing of the Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1913, Mubarak Al-Sabah was recognised by the Ottomans and British as the ruler of the autonomous caza of which city and its hinterlands?
9. Which of these points of a horse are at the highest point when it is standing up?
10. At his untimely death in 2002, ex-captain of the South African cricket team Hansie Cronje had been banned from any involvement in cricket for life. What was the reason?
11. When were the Thames Embankments in London, UK, built?
12. The "Don't Make a Wave Committee" founded in the early 1970s by Jim & Marie Bohlen, Irving & Dorothy Stowe, Paul Cote and Robert & Bobbi Hunter grew into what organisation?
13. The terms patois and argot refer to what?
14. According to the Christian and Jewish Bible, who turned into a pillar of salt when she looked back at the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah?
15. With which sport are Rodney Eyles, Peter Nicol, Susan Devoy and Cassie Campion associated?
16. A Global Seed vault has been established to maintain global genetic diversity of food crop plants; where is it sited?
17. In the Christian calendar, what is the week before Easter, historically a time of abstinence from eating flesh, drinking wine and carrying on business?
18. Superman spent his adult life in which city?
19. In the 1990 film "Dick Tracy", which starred Warren Beatty, Al Pacino, Glenne Headly and Charlie Korsmo, who played the role of "Breathless Mahoney", an entertainer at Club Ritz who tries to steal Tracy from Tess Trueheart?
20. There were a number of firsts during which cricketing team's tour of NZ in 2020, including rare whitewashes and the first cricketer to play 100 matches in all three international formats of the sport?