The Hindu Business Line : Investment Quiz

1. This European company is credited with launching an iconic scooter brand 60 years ago. It is also set to launch its initial public offering next month. Which company is it?

2. A doctorate in Electrical Engineering from the University of Berkeley, California, he joined his current organisation as a development engineer in 1990. He also has to his credit more than 25 patents for his work in the wireless technology arena. He is now the Chief Executive of his organisation and was in India recently to espouse his company's technology. Who's he?

3. This company has its genesis at the Gates Building Room #360 of Stanford University. Now, it is a household name that truly leverages the power of the Internet. Name it.

4. If you were tracking the movements of the Bolsa Index, which country's stock market would you be keeping a tab on?

5. It's the name of a fruit, as well as of a fictional rabbit in the novel Watership Down. It has now come to represent a hip communication tool. What is it?

6. If Airbus is associated with France and Boeing with the United States, with which country would one associate aircraft manufacturer Embraer?

7. What's common to the following brands: Pepsi, IndianOil, Hero Cycles, Chevrolet, Reebok and Tata Indicom?

8. With which brand would one associate the tagline " Every style has its strength"? (Hint: Think dinnerware).

9. This firm started off way back in 1910 as Shwayder Trunk Manufacturing Company. By what name do we know it today?

10. In the early part of his career, while working on a database project for the CIA, he assigned it a name that he later used for the company he founded.

He's known as much for the company he runs as for his flamboyant lifestyle. Apple CEO Steve Jobs happened to be the photographer at his last wedding. Who are we talking about?

Answers

1. Vespa

2. Dr Paul Jacobs of Qualcomm

3. Google (in a building ironically named after Bill Gates!)

4. Mexico

5. Blackberry

6. Brazil

7. Irfan Pathan, as he has endorsed all of them

8. Corelle

9. Samsonite

10. Oracle's Larry Ellison

Compiled by Nath Balakrishnan