The Hindu Business Line : Investment quiz

4. Franklin Prima and Franklin Bluechip were the first open-end equity funds in India. Launched in 1993, they have an impressive track record. Name the fund manager who has been at the helm of these two funds for over a decade now.

5. Who were the authors of `The Dow 36000 Theory'?

6. Which is the world's largest publicly traded hedge fund firm?

7. Who is the world's biggest provider of lottery systems? This company recently agreed to a close-to-$5 billion takeover bid from LOTTOMATICA, an Italian lottery operator?

8. Name the only stock that enjoyed a market capitalisation in excess of Rs 50,000 crore on the day of listing in India.

9. What is GEMAYA in Wall Street parlance?

10. Marcos Baghdatis placed Cyprus in the limelight by reaching the final of the Australian Open tennis tournament last week in which he lost to Roger Federer. In the popularity stakes in Cyprus, fellow countryman Stelios Haji-Ioannou matches him. What is his claim to fame.

11. Coca Cola and Pepsi have been engaged in a no-holds barred battle for more than a hundred years now. A month ago, Pepsi reached a milestone. It still sells less soda as compared to Coke. What was it?

12. What is the significance of `Hubbert's Peak' for the world economy and financial markets?

13. In late 1997, Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Inc said `I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders'. Which company was he referring to?

14. Name the person in the accompanying photograph. In a short span of two decades, he created India's most efficient and now one of the larger cement companies. In the past week, in a rare move for Indian promoters, he has sold his ownership stake.

15. Who owns CNN-IBN, a news channel that has recently gone on air?

Answers

1. Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ

2. Ashok Soota, former Vice Chairman of Wipro.

3. VIX, a measure of volatility of options in the Chicago Board Options Exchange.

4. K. N. Siva Subramanian.

5. James Glassman and Kevin Hassett.

6. Man Group PLC.

7. GTECH

8. Tata Consultancy Services; its market cap crossed this threshold on the day of listing, slipped on closing, went past the mark 15 days later and has been on upward trend subsequently, rising to close to about Rs 80,000 crore now.

9. Google, eBay, Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo and AOL.

10. Stelios Haji-Ioannou was the founder of low-cost airline easyJet

11. Pepsi surpassed Coca Cola in terms of market capitalisation for the first time.

12. Prediction in 1956 by M. King Hubbert, a Shell geologist, that US oil production volumes will rise till half the fields are depleted and then start to decline in the 1970s. This logic is now widely applied to oilfields across the world.

13. Apple Inc.

14. Narottam Sekhsaria of Gujarat Ambuja Cements.

15. Rajdeep Sardesai, Sameer Manchanda and Television Eighteen.

Compiled by S. Vaidya Nathan