General Knowledge Quiz 969 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is a zoonosis?
2. Who has published "Olympic Review" and "Revue Olympique" since 1894, now an 84-page full-colour glossy magazine that is issued quarterly?
3. Which film, directed by Frank Capra, starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur, concerns a man from Vermont who tries to share his inheritance?
4. Following the 1948 Olympics FIFA imposed what ban relating to play in the World Cup?
5. Which 2018 Marvel Comic superhero film follows the adventures of T'Challa, king and protector of the fictional African nation of Wakanda?
6. Which of these is a tragic heroine in Irish mythology?
7. Which President of the USA was involved in a scandal concerning Monica Lewinsky?
8. When was the architect John Nash commissioned to extend Buckingham House into a major royal palace?
9. What was the name given to Barbary pirates who raided ships in the Mediterranean and the south European coast from bases on the north coast of Africa?
10. What eventually historic event happened in about 570 CE in the Banu Hashim clan of the Quraysh tribe in what was Arabia?
11. Which country governs the islands called Crete, Lesbos, Rhodes, Corfu, Lemnos, Andros, Naxos and Kos?
12. What part of an atom has no charge?
13. In what field does the Australian firm Tabcorp, originally Tatts Group and Tabcorp Holdings Limited, operate?
14. The following people died from what cause:Eva Braun, Wallace Carothers, Odilo Globocnik, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann GΓΆring, Heinrich Himmler, GΓΌnther von Kluge, Erwin Rommel, Alan Turing and the residents of Jonestown?
15. Which of these people is an Australian professional surfer and triple world champion on the Women's ASP World Tour (2007, 2008, 2009)?
16. If you went directly south from France, which sea would you meet first?
17. Stainless steel is a steel alloy with a minimum of 10.5 to 11% content by mass of what element?
18. Which American football quarterback, as at the time of his retirement in 2007, was the only player to win the AP Most Valuable Player three consecutive times (1995-97) and holds NFL records including most passing yards (65, 127), most pass completions (5, 720), and most career victories as a starting quarterback (169)?
19. Which of these is the oldest?
20. Which of the following South African cities is a port?