General knowledge Question & Answer - 02-10-2014

Questions:

1. Pushtuis the official language of  which southwest Asian country?
2. Name the Pakistani Prime minister to be assassinated in 1951?
3. What is the medical term for the common wart?
4. In physics what unit is used in measuring electrical resistance?
5. The most famous Chinese martial art is Kung fu. What does it mean?
6. Name the German Foreign Minister during Hitler's regime, Who was convicted as a war criminal and hanged in 1946?
7. What is megalomania?
8. What is the name given to the art movement in which forms and imagery give full play to the imagination and the subconscious?
9. Who was the most successful Australian bowler in the world's second Tied Test at madras in September 1986?
10. What's the etymology of the world fanatic?

 

Answers:

1. Afghanistan.
2. Liaquat Ali khan.
3. Verruca Vulgaris.
4. Ohm.
5. Skill or ability (derived from Mandarin Chuan fa).
6. Joachim von Ribbentrop.
7. Form of insanity marked by delusions of grandeur.
8. Surrealism.
9. Greg Mathews.
10. It is derived from the latin word fanum i.e. temple. literally, one who is possessed of the enthusiasm or madness of the temple engendered by over - indul-gence in religious rites.

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