The Hindu Business Line : Investment Quiz

1. Established by W H Fysh and Paul McGinness way back in 1920, the company they founded was in the news recently for agreeing to be acquired by a consortium of investors. Name the outfit in question.

2. RAB Capital, the UK-based fund that has close to $5 billion in assets under management, is to receive an investment of $200 million from which billionaire industrialist?

3. This web site, founded by Jawed Karim and a couple of others, is one of the hottest properties on the Internet and has since been acquired. Name it.

4. INFAC, the information services and research provider, was founded in 1989 and was later acquired by Crisil a decade later. Who was the person behind it?

5. We're all conversant with the word blackmailing, but what does the word greenmailing stand for in corporate parlance?

6. He started working for this outfit back in 1988 when it was known by a name different from what we now know it as and has since risen to become the chairman of the same organisation. He answers to the name of Yang Yuanqing. Name the organisation in question.

Mr Yang Yuanqing

7. James Kynge's book was recently awarded the 2006 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year award. What's the book called?

8. The family that runs Satyam Computer Services, head by Mr Ramalinga Raju, also has interests in the infrastructure space through an outfit that has Mr Raju's son as vice-chairman. What's it called?

Mr B. Ramalinga Raju, Chairman, Satyam Computer.

9. If dividend yield is defined as the ratio between the dividend per share and the stock's market price, what is earnings yield?

10. Which technology company's name has its origin in a Hawaiian word that stands for intelligent or clever?

Answers

1. Australian airline Qantas

2. L. N. Mittal

3. YouTube; Stven Chen and Chad Hurley are the other two

4. Sunil Mehta, vice-president of software body Nasscom, who passed away last week

5. A premium paid to a corporate raider to abort a takeover attempt

6. Lenovo; the company was called the Legend Group when he joined

7. China Shakes the World

8. Maytas Infra; the name is Saytam reversed

9. Inverse of the price-earnings ratio

10. Akamai Technologies

Compiled by Nath Balakrishnan