.htaccess 301 redirect of query string URL?

[GlowAlex]

Please try the following code:

# redirect old JEvents Query String URLS to home page
RewriteBase / 
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^?option=com_jevents(.*)$ [NC] 
RewriteRule jevents/ http://www.site.com/$1 [R=301]