The Hindu Business Line : Investment quiz

2. Dr Reddy's Labs has vested a substantial part of its R&D activity in a new company, which is financed by ICICI Venture and Citibank Venture Capital. The company floated for this purpose is...

3. In the history of financial markets, why is the `Herengracht' canal significant?

4. Which is the largest IPO ever?

5. Production of oil has started on the Sakhalin Island in Russia recently. Which Indian company owns a 20 per cent stake in this venture?

6. What does Samsung stand for?

7. In the US, what does `filing for Chapter 11' imply?

8. Name the person in the accompanying photograph. She is part of two of two highly regarded business families in India — the Amalgamations group and the TVS group. Educated at Wharton and married to Mr Venu Srinivasan, CEO of TVS Motor Company, she spearheads a tractor major.

9. What is Tokyo Telecom Engineering Company started in 1946 now famously known as? 1

10. What does the Scott Trust do?

11. Which prominent Indian business group owns Applause Entertainment?

12. The largest energy market in the world is...

13. T-Sky will be the Direct-to-Home service of?

14. What is virt-x?

15. If that was a tough one, here's is a sitter: Which is the open-end fund that has raised the largest corpus during the initial offering period in India?

1. Genpact

2. Perlecan Pharma

3. As the most sought-after real estate in Europe, prices of homes along the 1.6-mile Herengracht canal (also known as gentleman's canal), shot through the roof between 1628 and 1640 and lead to the first recorded housing bubble.

4. ENEL of Italy; a powersector play, it raised $18.9 billion through its IPO in November 1999.

5. ONGC

6. Three stars (Samsung denotes `tristar' in Korean)

7. Bankruptcy;

8. Ms Mallika Srinivasan, Director of Tractors & Farm Equipment (TAFE)

9. Sony

10. Owners and publishers of The Guardian and The Observer newspapers in the UK and Guardian Unlimited on the web.

11. Aditya Birla group

12. The New York Mercantile Exchange

13. Space TV - a joint venture of the Star and Tata groups.

14. Based in London, it is a stock exchange based that provides a cross-border platform for trading in blue-chip stocks in Europe.

15. SBI Magnum Multi Cap Fund.