Questions

If tanθ + cotθ = 5, then the value of tan2θ + cot2θ is

Which Kannada writer received the Sahitya Academy Award for his novel 'Swatantryada Ota'?

________, succeeded to the throne of Ferghana in 1494 when he was only 12 years old.

The 'Cabinet Mission' of 1946 was led by

Mohammed Shahid, who recently passed away, was associated with which sport?

Who won the 2016 men's singles Wimbledon Championship?

Who among the following has scored 2 triple hundreds in test matches?

A passage is given with 5 questions following it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

I had seen this road many years ago when my parents moved to Mundakotukurussi, our ancestral village. However, in those early years, I hadn't begun exploring the countryside. I stored the unknown road in my head under 'One Day I Will'. Ten years ago, when I recovered from a herniated disc, it was to discover that I had a useless left leg. Though I managed to lose the limp, I hated not being able to stride around as I used to. I needed a challenge to tell myself that I wasn't going to buckle to a creature called sciatica. Thus the 'One Day I Will' arrived. "Where does the road by the medical shop lead to?" I asked my parents while visiting them next. "Chalavara," they said. "It's not an easy road to walk on," my father added. "There are too many ups and downs." Chalavara was a superior grade of a village as compared to Mundakotukurussi, with a high school, a fine library, ATMs and several shops. But it also has two approach roads. The one I had chosen was a narrow back road used by the locals and that settled it for me. I needed to know for myself I could walk a road that wasn't going to be easy. And the next day, I would get up and walk that road again.

What is 'sciatica'?