Static GK for XAT Exam Preparation 2027

Check out top 40 XAT Static GK questions. Also find the correct answers and tips to prepare GK for XAT 2027. XAT GK is evaluated during PI shortlisting.

XAT GK section has 20 questions. Until 2025, the number of questions used to be 25. However, in 2026 it was reduced to 20. The GK section of XAT plays an important role in selection of candidates for the Personal Interview round of XLRI Jamshedpur. Thus, it is critical to prepare well for this section.

The XAT GK section has two parts – Static GK and Current Affairs. Most of the questions are asked from Static GK. Candidates planning to appear for XAT 2027 exam, must plan out GK preparation in such a manner that Static GK is covered. If you are worried that Static GK is a very wise topic and how much to study, you must know that XAT Static GK mainly sticks to business, technology, inventions, economic policy, etc. In this article, we have listed some 40 XAT GK questions that were asked in previous two years. These questions will give you an idea as to what to prepare and which fields to cover.

XAT: Static GK vs Current Affairs

Before moving on to XAT GK questions, let’s take a look at the weightage of this section over the years. The below table indicates that the number of Static GK vs Current Affairs has been reduced.

Exam Year	XAT Static GK	XAT Current Affairs
2026	40 %	60 %
2025	35 %	65 %
2024	45 %	55 %
2023	40 %	60 %
2022	48 %	52 %
2021	56 %	44 %
2020	80 %	20 %
2019	72 %	28 %
2018	68 %	32 %
2017	75 %	25 %

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Previous Years’ Static GK Questions for XAT

Question 1: Who was the player of the tournament in the ICC Women’s World Cup 2025?

Options

1. Shafali Verma

2. Deepti Sharma

3. Jemimah Rodrigues

4. Sara Tendulkar

5. Smriti Mandhana

Question 2:  Which of the following is NOT true about octopuses?

Options

1. They can regrow their lost arms.

2. They usually have a lifespan of around 1-5 years.

3. They can eject a cloud of ink which creates smoke-screen effect, to escape predators.

4. They have three hearts.

5. Their blood emits a radium-like glow under moonlight.

Question 3: Arrange the following generations from the oldest to the youngest:

1. Generation X

2. Silent Generation

3. Generation Alpha

4. Baby Boomers

5. Millennials

Options

A. 2, 4, 5, 1, 3

B. 1, 2, 4, 5, 3

C. 2, 1, 4, 5, 3

D. 2, 4, 1, 5, 3

E. 4, 2, 1, 5, 3

Question 4: Who, among the following, is credited for designing the following ad campaigns: "Kuch khaas hai...zindagi mein" (Cadbury's), "Fevicol ka mazboot jod hai, tootega nahin" (Fevicol), and "Har ghar kuch kehta hai" (Asian Paints)?

Options

1. Piyush Pandey

2. Rajiv Rao

3. Sonal Dabral

4. Prasoon Joshi

5. Alyque Padamsee

Question 5: Which of the following is the first Asian country to host the Commonwealth Games?

Options

1. China

2. Malaysia

3. India

4. Bhutan

5. Japan

Question 6: Who is credited for popularizing the telephone greeting “Hello”?

Options

1. Thomas Watson

2. Alexander Graham Bell

3. Thomas Edison

4. Adele

5. Lionel Ritchie

Question 7: Which of the following is the Oxford Word of the Year 2025?

Options

1. Six-Seven

2. Brain rot

3. Rizz

4. Rage bait

5. Pookie

Question 8: Which major Indian infrastructure project, featuring the world's highest railway arch bridge over the Chenab River, was fully integrated into the national network in 2025?

Options

1. Bharatmala Project

2. USBRL (Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link)

3. Diamond Quadrilateral

4. Char Dham Highway Project

5. Namo Bharat RRTS (Regional Rapid Transit System)

Question 9: India recently achieved a milestone by placing its heaviest payload ever into orbit using the LVM3-M6 rocket. Which of the following is a satellite, launched as a part of this mission?

Options

1. GSAT-24

2. XAT-2026

3. RISAT-2BR1

4. Oceansat-3

5. BlueBird Block-2

Question 10: Who was the RUNNER-UP in the 2025 Wimbledon Gentlemen’s Singles Championship? Options

1. Novak Djokovic

2. Alexander Zverev

3. Taylor Fritz

4. Carlos Alcaraz

5. Jannik Sinner

Question 11: Which of the following BEST describes a startup that is resilient, built for a long-term survival, and is not focused on hyped-up valuation?

Options

1. Pegasus

2. Leech

3. Cockroach

4. Tortoise

5. Unicorn

Question 12: Which of the following is a comet that flew very close to the Earth in December, 2025? Options

1. 3I/ATLAS

2. C/2024 G3

3. C/2025 R2

4. C/2025 A6

5. Halley’s Comet

Question 13: Who won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the novel "James", a reimagining of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"?

Options

1. Andrew Miller

2. Hisham Matar

3. Rabih Alameddine

4. Percival Everett

5. David Szalay

Question 14: India recently launched its first indigenous 64-bit dual-core microprocessor. What is it named?

Options

1. VEGA-X

2. SHAKTI-64

3. ARYA-Core

4. DHRUV64

5. PRITHVI-9

Question 15: What is the primary objective of “Project Suncatcher” that Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced recently?

Options

1. Developing transparent solar panels for skyscrapers.

2. Creating a new AI model for weather prediction.

3. Deploying solar-powered AI data centers in space.

4. Launching a global network of solar-powered drones.

5. Building solar-powered smartphones.

Question 16: Which of the following GST slabs was abolished, during GST rationalization, in September 2025?

Options

1.  18 Percent

2. 12 Percent

3. 40 Percent

4. 5 Percent

5. 25 Percent

Question 17: Which Indian city has become home to the country’s first Semiconductor Innovation Museum?

Options

1. Mumbai

2. Bengaluru

3. Kolkata

4. Pune

5. Hyderabad

Question 18: What is common among the following celebrities: Val Kilmer, Diane Keaton, Robert Redford, Dharmendra Deol and B. Saroja Devi?

Options

1. These celebrities were the co-actors of Kamal Haasan in his 100th movie
2. These celebrities were born in the same year
3. These celebrities received Times Lifetime Achievement Award for the year 2025.
4.   These celebrities are posthumously nominated for 2026 Bharat Ratna Award.
5. These celebrities passed away in 2025.

Question 19: Arrange the following famous battles in the order of their occurrence: 

• Battle of the Hydaspes
• First Battle of Tarain
• Battle of Khanwa
• Battle of Talikota
• Battle of Buxar

Question 20: What is Nabanno?

Options:

1. It is a town close to Nabarno-Karabakh.

 2. It is the harvest festival of Bengal and Bangladesh.

3. It is another word for “great news.”

4. It is a dancing festival in Jammu and Kashmir.

5. It is a perennial river that flows in the Deccan

Question 21: Which of the following governors-general of India introduced the policy of “doctrine of lapse?"

Options:

1. Lord Wellesley

2. Lord Curzon

3. Lord Mountbatten

4. Lord Dalhousie

5. Lord Reading

Question 22: What is the common terminology used to describe the following applications: ChatGPT, Google Bard, Chatsonic?

Options:

1. Generative AI Tools

2. Dating Tools

3. Gaming Applications

4. News Aggregators

5. UPI Applications

Question 23: Arrange the following historic capital cities of Indian kingdoms in the order of their geographic locations, from north to south.

(a) Kannauj

(b) Karur

(c) Pataliputra

(d) Rajahmundry

Options:

1. (b)-(d)-(c)-(a)

2. (a)-(c)-(d)-(b)

3. (a)-(c)-(b)-(d)

4. (c)-(a)-(b)-(d)

5. (c)-(d)-(a)-(b)

Question 24: Which of the following Indian states does the River Ganges not flow through?

Options:

1. Uttarakhand

2. Bihar

3. Jharkhand

4. Haryana

5. Uttar Pradesh

Question 25: Which of the following prefectures of Japan was MAJORLY affected by an earthquake on January 1, 2024?

Options:

1. Ishikawa

2. Osaka

3. Tokyo

4. Hiroshima

5. Fukushima

Question 26: What is X-37B?

Options:

1. The name of the youngest kid of Elon Musk.

2. The new electric vehicle to be launched by Tesla.

3. The newest variant of COVID-19 virus.

4. The U.S. military plane that has gone to the space.

5. The name of India’s Jupiter mission.

Question 27: Which company has launched a dedicated air cargo service in India to speed up deliveries? Options:

1. Amazon

2. Flipkart

3. Jiomart

4. Tata Cliq

5. Snapdeal

Question 28: Which rocket was used to launch Aditya-L1?

Options:

1. PSLV-C57

2. LVM3 -M4

3. NGLV

4. GSLV-F12

5. TERLS

Question 29: Which Indian city set a world record by illuminating 22.23 lakh earthen lamps on the eve of Diwali 2023?

Options:

1. Ayodhya

2. Prayagraj

3. Varanasi

4. Udupi

5. Rameswaram

Question 30: In November 2023, which state government declared a fish named “Ghol” as the state fish?

Options:

1. Uttar Pradesh

2. Haryana

3. Gujarat

4. Bihar

5. Maharashtra

Question 31: What is the name of Air India’s Artificial Intelligence-powered chat assistant that introduced a generative AI virtual agent?

Options:

1. Niyaa

2. AirBuddy

3. Sathi

4. Maharaja

5. Frenz

Question 32: Which country has formally pulled out of “Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe?”

Options:

1. Israel

2. Russia

3. Italy

4. Germany

5. Turkey

Question 33: Claudia Dale Goldin was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2023 in recognition of her groundbreaking research in the field of:

Options:

1. Women in the Work Force

2. Behavioural Economics

3. Human Trafficking

4. Unemployment in Global South

5. Poverty in Africa

Question 34: Matthew Perry, who died in 2023, was famously known for playing which character in the sitcom called Friends.

Option :

1. Ross Geller

2. Chandler Bing

3. Joey Tribbiani

4. Raymond Holt

5. Monica Geller

Question 35: The movie Oppenheimer was directed by:

Options:

1. Christopher Nolan

2. Greta Gerwig

3. Quentin Tarantino

4. Zack Snyder

5. Steven Spielberg

Question 36: Who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023? Options:

1. Barack Obama

2. Shirin Ebadi

3. Narges Mohammadi

4. Maria Ressa

5. Center for Civil Liberties

Question 37: Why has Dr. Akshata Krishnamurthy been in the news recently?

Options:

1. She is the first Indian citizen to command a rover mission on Mars.

2. She is the first Indian citizen to lead the Big Bang Observatory.

3. She is the first Indian citizen appointed to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.

4. She is the first Indian citizen to be heading the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.

5. She is the first Indian citizen to make a major breakthrough in the genome sequencing of Jamun.

Question 38: Which of the following countries has NOT been invited to join the BRICS in the BRICS’ expansion plan for 2024?

Options:

1. Egypt

2. Ethiopia

3. Saudi Arabia

4. Iran

5. Pakistan

Question 39: Which city hosted the recently concluded Asian Games 2022 (which happened in 2023)?

Options:

1. Incheon

2. Hangzhou

3. Jakarta

4. Guangzhou

5. Busan

Question 40: Which two teams competed in the final match of the Women's Premier League (WPL) 2023, held on March 26, 2023 in Mumbai?

Options:

1. Delhi Capitals & Mumbai Indians

2. Gujarat Giants & Delhi Capitals

3. UP Warriorz & Delhi Capitals

4. Royal Challengers Bangalore & Mumbai Indians

5. Delhi Capitals & Gujarat Giants

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