The Hindu Business Line : Investment quiz

1) Which is the Indian company that made the swiftest move to the Rs 50,000-crore mark in terms of market capitalisation? Hindustan Lever, which was the first to reach this threshold, took several decades.

2) Why is OMX significant in the global financial markets?

3) Two multinationals, which had dual centres of management and control in Europe, have now moved to a unified structure of operation. Both also have had prominent links in India. Name them?

4) In which trading platform does CRISIL have a sizeable equity stake?

5) Gold prices have touched an 18-year high. Which company is the world's largest producer of gold?

6) Which company has the distinction of fuelling J. R. D. Tata's historic solo flight in 1932 as well as his re-enactment of the original flight 30 years later?

7) What coinage by Milton Sirotta has now become synonymous with Internet search?

8) From which asset class did Warren Buffett move out over the past month?

9) Which Hong Kong-based group owns enterprises such as the Shangri-La hotel chain and the South China Morning Post?

10) In which Indian mutual fund has BNP Paribas of France acquired a strategic stake?

11) Woodcock, Hess & Co Inc — what is its claim to fame in the history of stock markets?

12) If you buy or sell `CHINA' on the NASDAQ, what will you be doing?

13) In which company has Mr Azim Premji — the owner of Wipro — acquired an equity stake in the past fortnight?

14) That ONGC has the largest market cap in the basket of Nifty stocks is a no-brainer. Name the stock in Nifty that has the lowest market cap now?

15) Who is the person in the accompanying photograph? In 2003, this Indian-born person was picked out of semi-retirement to head one of the global majors and has since managed to take the company to the numero uno slot? He made a high-profile visit to India a month ago.

Answers:

1) Bharti Tele-Ventures.

2) OMX owns and operates the stock exchanges in Copenhagen (Denmark), Stockholm (Sweden), Helsinki (Finland), Riga (Latvia), Talllinn (Estonia) and Vilnius (Lithunia).

3) Unilever and Royal Dutch Shell.

4) National Commodity Exchange of India.

5) Newmont Mining Corporation.

6) Bhatat Petroleum in its avatar as Burmah Shell.

7) Googol, from which Google derives its name.

8) Dollar

9) Robert Kuok's Kerry Group.

10) Sundaram Mutual.

11) The first member firm of the New York Stock Exchange to become a company.

12) Class A shares of CDR Corporation, a global provider of software services (the company was earlier known as chinadotcom and listed on the NASDAQ in 1999).

13) Himatsingka Seide

14) Tata Chemicals.

15) Arun Sarin, CEO of Vodafone; he was in India recently to finalise a 10 per cent stake in Bharti Tele-Ventures.

S. Vaidya Nathan

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