1: A person stands at the middle point of a wooden ladder which starts slipping between a vertical wall and the floor of a room, while continuing to remain in a vertical plane. The path traced by a person standing at the middle point of the slipping ladder is:

(a) A straight line

(b) An elliptical path

(c) A circular path

(d) A parabolic path
2: A person of mixed European and Indian blood in Latin America is called a

(a) Mulatto
(b) Mestizo
(c) Meiji
(d) Mau Mau
3: Consider the following pairs:

Famous place:
1. Pandharpur
2. Tiruchirappalli
3. Hampi

River:
1. Chandrabhaga
2. Cauvery
3. Malaprabha

Which of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

(a) 1 and 2 only

(b) 2 and 3 only

(c) 1 and 3 only

(d) 1, 2 and 3
4: First non-Congress government to come in power in any Indian State is:

(a) DMK in Tamil Nadu

(b) Communist Party of India in Kerala

(c) CPI (M) in West Bengal

(d) None of the above
5: Which statement about Amir Khusrau is not true?

(a) He worked for the Hindu-Muslim Unity

(b) He was a great poet

(c) He was a great historian

(d) He wrote poetry in Hindi and Urdu