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January 2017, a repository of these questions will streamline your revision and save time in searching
for the important topics.
Read these questions carefully and be prepared to score well in the general knowledge section of
CMAT exam. Questions from all the areas such as national issues, international events, sports trivia,
appointments and agreements, books and authors, famous personalities and economy news are
covered for your revision.
Practice the Top 100 General Knowledge Questions for CMAT 2017
1. Who among the following has been named as the TIME magazine Person of the Year 2016?
A) Narendra Modi
B) Donald Trump
C) Vladimir Putin
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D) Mark Zukerberg
Answer: Option B
2. Which Indian village has recently earned the tag of becoming India’s first digital village in
India?
a) Akrund
b) Akodara
c) Poshina
d) Punsari
Answer: Option B
3. Who was recently elected as the President of FICCI for the year 2017?
a) Harshavardhan Neotia
b) Pankaj R. Patel
c) Jyotsna Suri
d) Rashesh Shah
Answer: Option B
4. Who among the following has been elected as US ambassador to the United Nations (UN) by
US President-elect Donald Trump?
a) Nikki Haley
b) Kamala Harris
c) Bobby Jindal
d) Ami Bera
Answer: Option A
5. Name the person who has recently replaced Cyrus Mistry as the Chairman of Tata Global
Beverages?
a) Ratan Tata
b) Lalit Modi
c) Harish Bhat
Answer: Option C
6. What is the newly launched toll-free helpline number for Unique Identification Authority of
India?
a) 2016
b) 1947
c) 2000
d) 2020
Answer: Option B
7. By when Indian Railways recently set the target to achieve 100 percent de-carbonisation with
90 percent electrification?
a) 2021
b) 2020
c) 2025
d) 2030
Answer: Option A
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8. Name the Indian states that have jointly topped the Ease of Doing Business Reforms Ranking
2015-16?
Answer: Option C
9. Name the creative agency that has been appointed by NITI Aayog for running its campaigns?
d) Thinkstr
Answer: Option D
10. Which Indian FMCG player is planning to make use of Artificial insemination technique to 92
per cent female offspring of cows?
a) Glaxosmith Kline
b) Amul
c) Dabur
d) Patanjali
Answer: Option D
11. Who was recently selected by the UN Security Council as the next UN Secretary-General?
a) Antonio Guterres
b) Ban Ki-moon
c) Theresa May
d) Angela Merkel
Answer: Option A
a) Hello
b) Ello
c) Aloo
d) Allo
Answer: Option D
13. Which country has topped the Global Competitiveness Index, GCI 2016-17 released in
September 2016.
a) Switzerland
b) Singapore
d) Sweden
Answer: Option A
14. In which state of India, Adani Green Energy (Tamil Nadu) Ltd. has installed world’s largest
solar power plant of 648 megawatts?
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a) Andhra Pradesh
b) Tamil Nadu
c) Kerala
d) Karnataka
Answer: Option B
15. Who is appointed as the Chairman of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India?
a) Usha Pal
b) Usha Sangwan
c) VK Sharma
d) Nitin Srivastav
Answer: Option C
16. Which stock exchange became the first Indian stock exchange to file Initial Public Offering
with SEBI?
Answer: Option A
17. Nomad Film Festival 2016 started in which of the following cities?
a) Mumbai
b) Jaipur
c) Jabalpur
d) New Delhi
Answer: Option D
18. Which village became the first Wi-fi hotspot village in Haryana?
a) Bahu-Jholri
b) Rewari Khera
c) Gumthala Garhu
d) Thamber
Answer: Option C
19. Who of the following topped the Forbes list of world’s highest paid actors of 2016?
a) Tom Cruise
b) Matt Damon
c) Dwayne Johnson
d) Jackie Chan
Answer: Option C
20. Which of the following Indian Actress has been ranked 10th in the world in the list of
“Forbes magazine”?
a) Sonam Kapoor
b) Katrina Kaif
c) Priyanka Chopra
d) Deepika Padukone
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Answer: Option D
21. Which company has acquired gaming (interactive livestreaming) startup Beam?
a) Apple
b) Microsoft
c) Google
d) IBM
Answer: Option C
22. Who is recently appointed as the Managing Director of the State Bank of India?
c) Arundhati Bhattacharya
Answer: Option D
23. What is the new name of Business Broadcast News channel ‘Bloomberg TV India’, owned by
Anil Ambani?
a) BBN
b) BTV
c) BTVi
d) BloomTV
Answer: Option C
24. Which company has acquired Yahoo for $4.8 billion in July 2016?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Answer: Option B
c) Investing in girls
d) None of These
Answer: Option B
25. What is the name of the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) platform was launched by
HRD ministry on August 15?
a) Swayam-Shiksha
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b) Khud-Se
c) Swayam
Answer: Option C
26. Who has been elected as the Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)?
a) Mukesh Ambani
b) Azim Premji
d) Terry McGraw
Answer: Option C
27. Who has been appointed as the new CEO, MD of Airtel Payments Bank by Bharti Airtel?
a) Shashi Arora
b) Manish Khera
c) AM Naik
d) Ashish Nanda
Answer: Option A
28. Which harmful chemical is found in the bread and is claimed to cause cancer in the
consumers?
a) Sodium Ascorbate
b) Monosodium Glutamate
c) Potassium Bromate
d) Maltodextrins
Answer: Option B
29. What is the name of the new bill payment system which has been launched by RBI?
Answer: Option A
30. Which online jewellery portal has been acquired by Titan in an all-cash deal?
a) Gitanjalishop
b) Caratlane
c) Bluestone
d) Thangamayil
Answer: Option B
31. Which Indian State has become the first “kerosene free state” after the sale of subsidized
cooking and lightening fuel has been stopped there?
a) Delhi
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b) Surat
c) Chandigarh
d) Mumbai
Answer: Option C
32. Name the passenger train which has been flagged off by railway Minister Suresh Prabhu and
is a part of the ‘raftar' mission of India’s Railways Ministry.
a) Ahmedabad Express
c) Satavahana Express
d) Gatiman Express
Answer: Option D
33. Which city of Japan will host the 2016 Group of 7 (G7) Summit?
a) Tokyo
b) Ise-Shima
c) Osaka
d) Yokohama
Answer: Option B
34. Who has been elected and appointed as the new President of Taiwan?
a) Tsai Ing-wen
b) Wu Jin-lin
c) Chen Shui-bian
d) Lin Bih-jaw
Answer: Option A
35. Who has been elected as the President of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)?
a) Anurag Thakur
b) Ratnakar Shetty
c) Saurabh Chandra
d) Sourav Ganguly
Answer: Option A
36. Who has been declared as the new Chief Minister of Assam?
a) Sarbananda Sonowal
b) Biswajit Daimary
c) Tarun Gogoi
d) Kamkhya Tasa
Answer: Option A
37. Who has been elected as the newly elected Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu?
a) Edappadi K Palaniswami
b) Jayalalithaa
c) M.K. Stalin
d) P Thangamani
Answer: Option B
a) Ashok Lavasa
c) Ratan Watal
d) Sudeep Lakhtakia
Answer: Option A
39. Name the Indian women who have earned a name in the Forbes’ 2016 list of America’s
Richest Self-Made Women.
a) Sumitra Mahajan
b) Mallika Dutt
c) Bharti Kirchner
Answer: Option D
A) France
b) Germany
c) United States
d) Egypt
Answer: Option D
41. Which is the 1st country of the world to put a ban on Deforestation?
a) Turkmenistan
b) Kiribati
c) Somalia
d) Norway
Answer: Option D
42. Who among the following headed the 7th Pay Commission?
a) Ratin Roy
b) Meena Aggarwal
c) Vivek Rae
d) AK Mathur
Answer: Option D
43. Which is the 1st Indian state to ban these electronic cigarettes?
a) Punjab
b) Uttar Pradesh
c) Bihar
d) Karnataka
Answer: Option A
44. Who has been elected as the first Indigenous woman to the House of Representatives of
Parliament of Australia?
a) Linda Burney
b) Joanna Lindgren
c) Neville Bonner
d) Aden Ridgeway
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) g y
Answer: Option A
45. Which of the given below operations was started to evacuate Indian citizens who were
stranded in South Sudan's capital Juba?
a) Maitri
b) Checkmate
c) Sankat Mochan
d) Raahat
Answer: Option C
46. Who has officially clinched the Republican nomination for the US President after a state-by-
state vote at the Party Convention?
a) Ted Cruz
b) Bernie Sanders
c) Donald Trump
d) Hillary Clinton
Answer: Option C
47. Who has been appointed as the Chief Economist of World Bank in July 2016?
a) Paul Romer
b) Nicholas H Stern
d) François Bourguignon
Answer: Option A
48. Which of the following is NOT a historical site as declared by the UNESCO’s World Heritage
Site recently?
a) Nalanda Mahavihara
b) Vikramashila Monastery
Answer: Option B
49. Which country has been declared free from measles by the World Health Organization
(WHO)?
a) India
b) USA
c) Brazil
d) Japan
Answer: Option C
50. On which railway stretch of India Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu launched the nation's
first Green Rail Corridor?
a) Rameswaram-Manamadurai
b) Jammu-Katra
c) Tiruchirappalli-Madurai
d) Kalka–Shimla
Answer: Option A
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51. In which city of India’s first Water Metro project that was recently launched?
a) Kochi
b) Kolkata
c) Hyderabad
d) Chennai
Answer: Option A
52. Who has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Unique Identification
Authority of India (UIAI)?
d) None of these
Answer: Option A
53. Who has been appointed as the Head of International Olympic Committee Athletes’
Commission?
a) Angela Ruggiero
b) Thomas Bach
c) Claudia Bokel
d) Seiko Noda
Answer: Option A
54. Who has taken over as the Chairperson of Central Board of Direct Taxes?
a) P.K. Sinha
b) Ajeet Shrivastava
d) Atulesh Jindal
Answer: Option C
55. Name the Mobile payments company, which has announced the partnership with IRCTC's
app for power e-cash payments on IRCTC's e-catering app, Food on Track.
a) Paytm
b) MobiKwik
c) Freecharge
Answer: Option B
56. Name the journalist, considered the ‘dean of black press columnists’, who passed away
recently.
a) George E. Curry
b) Robert C. Maynard
c) William Raspberry
d) John H. Johnson
Answer: Option A
57. Who of the following was not selected for 2016 Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna?
a) PV Sindhu
b) Dipa Karmakar
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c) Jitu Rai
d) Shiva Thapa
Answer: Option D
a) Dilma Rousseff
b) Michel Temer
c) Lula da Silva
d) Fernando Henrique
Answer: Option B
59. Who of the following is the author of the book “I Want 2 be Tendulkar”?
a) Savi Sharma
b) Manish Sharma
c) Devdutt Pattanaik
d) Sudeep Nagarkar
Answer: Option B
60. Majuli recently became the first island district of India. Majuli is located in which of the
following states?
a) Assam
b) West Bengal
c) Tripura
d) Arunachal Pradesh
Answer: Option A
61. Who of the following was India’s flag-bearer at the 2016 Summer Paralympic Games?
c) Murlikant Petkar
d) Devendra Jhajharia
Answer: Option D
62. Which country has launched the first of its new generation weather satellites Fengyun-4?
a) Japan
b) North Korea
c) China
d) South Korea
Answer: Option C
63. Which Indian state has launched a subsidised meal scheme ‘Annapurna Rasoi'?
a) Odisha
b) Uttar Pradesh
c) Maharashtra
d) Rajasthan
Answer: Option D
64. Who among the following has topped the Forbes 2016 list for “World's Most Powerful
People”?
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People ?
a) Vladimir Putin
b) Donald Trump
c) Narendra Modi
d) Mukesh Ambani
Answer: Option A
a) M. Karunanidhi
b) O. Panneerselvam
c) M. G. Ramachandran
Answer: Option B
66. Who has been appointed the Chief of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA)?
a) Pashupati Raju
b) B.S. Bhullar
Answer: Option B
67. Which movie won the Best Film Award at the first BRICS Film Festival that recently
concluded in New Delhi?
a) Xuan Zang
c) Thithi
Answer: Option C
68. When is Constitution Day celebrated in India to spread awareness about Indian
Constitution?
a) 30th November
b) 25th November
c) 26th November
d) 28th November
Answer: Option C
69. Which of the following was declared as the word of the year 2016 by Oxford Dictionaries?
a) Post-Truth
b) Adulting
c) Hygge
d) Woke
Answer: Option A
70. Who has been appointed as the chairman of an eight-member task force appointed to re-
calibrate all ATMs functioning in India by RBI?
a) R Gandhi
b) NS Vishwanathan
c) Harun R Khan
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)
d) SS Mundra
Answer: Option D
71. Who is the author of the book titled “An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India” that
was recently released by released by the Vice President of India M. Hamid Ansari
a) Chetan Bhagat
b) Arundhati Roy
c) Sashi Tharoor
d) Vikram Seth
Answer: Option C
72. Who has become the 1st India-American woman to be elected to the U.S. House of
Representative?
a) Kamala Harris
b) Pramila Jayapal
c) Kiran Desai
d) None of these
Answer: Option D
73. Who among the following is appointed as CEO of the World Bank?
a) Jason McCracken
b) Abdelilah Benkirane
c) Antonio Guterres
d) Kristalina Georgieva
Answer: Option D
a) 5 November
b) 15 November
c) 10 November
d) 25 November
Answer: Option A
75. What is the name of the new book that was recently announced by Arundhati Roy?
c) Listening to Grasshoppers
d) Broken Republic
Answer: Option A
76. Who among the following won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature?
a) Patrick Modiano
b) Svetlana Alexievich
c) Alice Munro
d) Bob Dylan
Answer: Option D
77. Who has been elected as the new Secretary General of the United Nations?
a) Antonio Guterres
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a) Antonio Guterres
b) Ban ki Moon
c) Vitaly Antonio
d) Matthew Rycroft
Answer: Option A
78. Which Javelin thrower broke the national record and became the 1st Indian to cross the 60m
mark on the penultimate day of the 56th Open National Athletics Championships, Lucknow?
a) Tejaswin Shankar
b) Jitin Thomas
c) Annu Rani
d) K Rashmi
Answer: Option C
79. Who of the following will be the Chief Guest at the Republic Day celebrations on 26 January
2017?
a) Angela Merkel
c) Vladimir Putin
d) Theresa May
Answer: Option B
80. Yoshinori Ohsumi won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his contribution in which field of
study?
Answer: Option D
81. Kersti Kaljulaid was recently elected as the first woman President of which of the following
countries?
a) Ireland
b) Norway
c) Finland
d) Estonia
Answer: Option D
82. Who was appointed as first US ambassador to Cuba in 55 years by President Barack
Obama?
a) Jeffrey DeLaurentis
b) Cameron Munter
c) Richard G. Olson
Answer: Option A
83. Which country recently launched world's biggest radio telescope in search for
extraterrestrial life?
a) India
b) China
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b) China
c) Russia
d) Japan
Answer: Option B
84. Name the film that has been selected as India's entry to the 89th Academy Awards (Oscars)
to be held in 2017 in the Foreign Language Film category.
a) Parched
b) Tithi
c) Udta Punjab
d) Visaranai
Answer: Option D
85. Name the Yazidi woman, who was recently appointed the UNODC Goodwill Ambassador for
the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking.
Answer: Option C
86. Which Declaration was adopted by the World Leaders recently at the United Nations General
Assembly Summit for Refugees and Migrants?
Answer: Option B
87. Which country will host the 17th Summit of the Non Aligned Movement (NAM)?
a) China
b) Japan
c) India
d) Indonesia
Answer: Option D
a) 15 July 2016
b) 15 December 2016
c) 15 January 2016
d) 15 September 2016
Answer: Option D
89. Which Indian para-athlete recently became the first Indian to win two gold medals at the
Paralympics?
a) Devendra Jhajharia
b) Girisha Nagarajegowda
c) Deepa Malik
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Answer: Option A
90. The Union Cabinet approved the formation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council.
The Council will be created as per which Article of the amended Constitution?
a) Article 279B
b) Article 279
c) Article 279D
d) Article 279A
Answer: Option D
91. Which state celebrated the bicentenary (200 years) of the 1817 Paika revolt against the
British Empire in 2016?
a) Punjab
b) Uttar Pradesh
c) Odisha
d) Bihar
Answer: Option C
92. Which Ayurvedic medicine manufacturer recently inked a MoU with DRDO’s DIHAR to
promote cultivation of rare medicinal plants?
d) Shri Baidyanath
Answer: Option C
93. What is the name of the project on the River Ganga that is being developed between
Allahabad and Haldia to enable commercial navigation.
Answer: Option A
94. Which Indian state has recently abolished Agricultural Income Tax?
a) Uttar Pradesh
b) Bihar
c) Punjab
d) Karnataka
Answer: Option D
95. When is United Nations International Albinism Awareness Day observed across globe?
a) 11th June
b) 13th June
c) 15th June
d) 12th June
Answer: Option B
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a) Banwarilal Purohit
b) V P Singh Badnore
Answer: Option B
97. Which Indian actor is chosen for the prestigious Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres
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(Knight in the National Order Arts and Letters)?
a) Kamal Haasan
b) Rajinikanth
c) Amitabh Bachchan
d) Om Puri
Answer: Option A
Answer: Option C
99. Who was appointed as the World Bank Country Director for India recently?
a) Onno Ruhl
b) Junaid Ahmad
Answer: Option B
100. Which Declaration was adopted by the World Leaders recently at the United Nations
General Assembly Summit for Refugees and Migrants?
Answer: Option B
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