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XAT General Knowledge (GK) Previous Year Papers with Questions and Answers – 2016
Sunday, December 6th, 2020
XAT General Knowledge past year papers should be a part of each and every student’s library who is serious about XAT GK preparation. It would take hardly one hour to go through past year papers and this one hour would teach you about the kind of stuff that gets asked in the exam. I would strongly recommend to all XAT GK students to please go through this post in details and honestly assess yourself as to how much you would have scored in the actual exam.
XAT General Knowledge (GK) Questions from Previous Year Paper of 2016
1) In percentage terms, which Indian state has the highest forest cover?
Madhya Pradesh
Harit Pradesh
Nagaland
Arunachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir
2) Meghnad Saha was a famous:
Historian
Economist
Painter
Novelist
Physicist
3) Read the following statements:
1. Russia supports President Assad of Syria
2. Saudi Arabia opposes President Assad of Syria
3. Iran supports President Assad.
4. The United States support President Assad.
Which of the following statement is true?
1 and 2 only
1, 2 and 3 only
1, 2, 3 and 4
2 and 3 only
2, 3 and 4 only
4) Angus Deation is a famous:
Economist
Physicist
Writer
Historian
Painter
5) Which of the following is not a conglomerate?
Reliance
ITC
TCS
Adani
Murugappa
6) Which of the following is the closest country to Antarctica?
Argentina
Brazil
South Africa
Australia
New Zealand
7) The “New Horizon” was in news in 2015. It refers to:
Award winning book
Business Consulting Company
Mission to Pluto
Business Magazine
Award Winning Oscar film
8) The Isalnds that are under dispute of ownership between Japan and China are:
Osaka Islands
Muntheetu Islands
South China Islands
Senkaku Islands
None of the above
9) The Inuit Paradox:
is a place in the article circle in the Greenland.
is that the Inuit eat a lot of fat and hardly any fruits and are still very healthy.
is that the Inuits eat anything that moves but spare the reindeer.
is that the Inuit have very little exposure to the Sun but suffer no deficiency from Vitamin – D
is a Glacier that looks like a circle from a distance but is actually a rectangle.
10) Takata Corporation was in the news recently because it:
was involved in airbag recall.
was the chief aide to Shinzo Abe who promised to revive the economy.
was the commander in Chief of the Japanese army accused by critics of war mongering.
was the second largest seller of phones in China
was the name of a band that fuses Japanese and American music.
11) Which sea lie to the west of Yemen and Suadi Arabia?
The Gulf of Aden
Gulf of Oman
Red Sea
Black Sea
Persian Gulf
12) In the budget estimate of 2015-16:
Non-planned expenditure was more than revenue receipts
Revenue receipts were higher than non-planned expenditure
Planned expenditure was higher than Non-planned Expenditure.
Fiscal Deficit was lower than Revenue deficit
Total expenditure was 20% higher than Total Receipts
13) Consider the following statements:
1. Sinai is a part of Egypt.
2. Sinai is in Asia.
3. Sinai is in Africa
4. Russian plane was downed in Sinai in November 2015. Which of the above statements are true?
1 and 3 only.
1,2 and 4 only
1,3 and 4 only
2 and 4 only
3 and 4 only
14) In 2015, which country was ranked number one “as best place to do business in”?
USA
New Zealand
Singapore
Honk Kong
India
15) Perumal Murugan is a(n):
Writer
Painter
Journalist
Actor
Director
16) Plasmodium Vivax causes:
Typhoid
Malaria
AIDS
Syphilis
Bird Flu
17) Pilatus PC-7 is a(n):
frigate
aircraft carrier
ship
submarine
aircraft
18) Which of the following commodity is not rightly matched with its country, if ‘right match’ is considered as one of the top five producers of that commodity?
Oat : Russia
Wheat : United States
Apple : China
Carrot : India
Rice : Indonesia
19) Which of the following countries has the lowest External Debt?
United Kingdom
France
USA
India
China
20) Which of the following city is not related to the automobile industry?
Dharwad
Lucknow
Jamshedpur
Pithampur
Itanagar
21) Elon Musk is closely associated with:
Google
GM
Volkswagen
Tesla
Apple
22) Raspberry PI is a:
computer sized credit card
former name of iMac
credit card sized dessert
credit card swiping machine
credit card sized computer
23) Which of the following films is not associated with Christopher Nolan:
Interstellar
Matrix
Memento
Inception
Prestige
24) Timbuktu is:
A city in China
A fictional city
A form of expression
A city in Mongolia
A city in Mali
25) RuPay is related to:
Rural Payment of Wages office in India
National association for facilitation of Rural Paments
National Payments Corporation of India
Russia Pay, a Russian competitor of Paypal
Rustic Poetry, an Annual Festival held in Jaipur, India
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