List of top Questions asked in XAT

Nadeem’s age is a two-digit number X, squaring which yields a three-digit number, whose last digit is Y. Consider the statements below: Statement I: Y is a prime number, Statement II: Y is one-third of X. To determine Nadeem’s age uniquely:

Match the animals listed below with the most common collective noun used to represent a group of them (e.g. wolves – Pack)

Animals		Collective Nouns
P	Eagles	I	Tower
Q	Apes	II	Quiver
R	Giraffes	III	Kaleidoscope
S	Butterflies	IV	Shrewdness
T	Cobras	V	Convocation

Match the following books with their authors.

Books		Authors
P	The Fractured Himalaya: India Tibet I. Dinayar Patel China 1949-1962	I	Dinayar Patel
Q	False Allies: India's Maharajahs in the Age of Ravi Varma	II	Tamal Bandyopadhyay
R	VP Menon: The Unsung Architect of Modern India	III	Manu S Pillai
S	Pandemonium: The Great Indian Banking Tragedy	IV	Nirupama Menon Rao
T	Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism	V	Narayani Basu

What is a grey market?

From which location, India test-fired the new generation Agni Prime missile in 2021?

Identify the XLRI alumnus, who has recently been appointed as the Deputy National Security Advisor?

Match the following literary works with their authors.

Literary Works		Authors
P	Mrcchakatika	I	Kalidasa
Q	Mudrarakshasa	II	Shudraka
R	Abhijnanashakuntalam	III	Bāṇabhaṭṭa
S	Rasamanjari	IV	Vishakhadatta
T	Harshacharita	V	Krishnadevaraya

Match the following classic movies with their directors

Movies		Directors
P	Agantuk	I	Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Q	Thaneer Thaneer	II	Shyam Benegal
R	Drohkaal	III	Satyajit Ray
S	Elipatthayam	IV	K Balachander
T	Bhumika	V	Govind Nihalani

Match the following districts with the states to which they belong

Districts		States
P	Muktsar	I	Bihar
Q	Rohtas	II	Assam
R	Nanded	III	Tamil Nadu
S	Kamrup	IV	Punjab
T	Salem	V	Maharashtra

Which of the following 2018 Commonwealth Games Gold medallists has successfully contested the 2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly elections?

Which of the following politicians has served for the longest years consecutively, or otherwise, as the Chief Minister of any Indian state or Union Territory?

Maitri and Bharati are the names of:

Which of the following footballing legends had never won the prestigious Ballon d'Or Award?

From the following options, choose the one which arranges the given Queens’ ascension to the throne in a chronological order.

Match the following UNSECO world heritage sites with the states to which they belong

UNESCO World Heritage Sites		States
P	Khajuraho Group of Monuments	I	Telangana
Q	Kakatiya Rudreshwara Temple R. Dholavira	II	Gujarat
R	Nanded	III	Karnataka
S	Group of Monuments at Hampi	IV	Sikkim
T	Khangchendzonga National Park	V	Madhya Pradesh

According to the venture capital industry, what is a unicorn?

What is OSIRIS-REx?

Which of the following Indian states does not have an “Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)”?

Who is the first Field Marshal of independent India?

What is the full form of NFT in the context of blockchain?

Which of the following spacecrafts by the NASA entered the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the Corona?

What is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)?

Which of the following wild animal has the sub-species as Sri Lankan, Indian, Sumatran and Bornean?

Monosodium glutamate is:

Which of the following companies has acquired 100% stake in Air India?