The Hindu Business Line : Investment Quiz

4. Name the only stock that enjoyed a market capitalisation in excess of Rs 50,000 crore at the peak of the boom in 2000 and does not do so now?

A few others also slipped below the threshold, but have recovered after a bruising five-year period.

5. What is Leonardo Pisano's seminal contribution to financial markets?

6. The Customer's Afternoon Letter was the precursor of which widely-read financial publication of the modern day?

7. Which is the only Indian company whose foreign currency convertible bonds have always been converted into equity in entirety and also delivered rich gains to the investors in these bonds?

8. `Holderbank Financiere Glaris' is now known as... It now has a major presence in the Indian market.

9. The inventor of Lotus Notes, which was later acquired by IBM, is now the Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft. Name him.

10. Which mutual fund house has specialised only in exchange-traded funds in India?

11. Amsterdam, which had the first stock exchange in the world, is now home to yet another pioneering initiative. Name it.

12. Which Indian company promotes its services as offering `solutions for peace of mind'?

13. What is VIX?

14. Name the person in the accompanying photograph. A chartered accountant by profession, he spent close to 20 years with the Citigroup before taking up the challenge of setting up a `world class Indian bank' from scratch in the early 1990s.

15. Here's an easy one: Equities in quite a few countries have recorded new highs over the past month.

Which country's benchmark index recently swept past the 15,000 mark after a gap of about five years?

1. Archipelago

2. The new entrants when the Sensex was first recast in 1985.

3. Peter L. Bernstein

4. Zee Telefilms

5. He invented the Fibonacci Series, used extensively in technical analysis.

6. The Wall Street Journal.

7. Gujarat Ambuja Cements.

8. Holcim

9. Ray Ozzie

10. Benchmark Capital

11. European Climate Exchange, renowned especially for trading in carbon credits.

12. Blue Dart.

13. Symbol for the Chicago Board Options Exchange's volatility index; it is a measure of the implied volatility of a range of options on the S&P 500 Index.

14. Mr Aditya Puri, Managing Director of HDFC Bank

15. Japan's Nikkei 225.

Compiled by S.Vaidya Nathan