Stock Market Quiz- 6

1) If you've bought shares in an intraday mode,what should you do before the intraday time ends?
Answer : Sell or take delivery

2) To buy/sell shares,you should have a _________ account
Answer : Demat

3) What do IPO & FPO mean ?
Answer : Initial Public Offer (IPO) & Follow-on Public Offer(FPO)

4) What is the name of the two share depositories in India ?
Answer : NSDL(National Securities Depository Ltd.) & CSDL (Central Securities Depository Ltd.)

5) What is the name for selling shares in an intraday mode,even though you don't have the same shares in your demat account ?
Answer : Short-sell

6) The shares you buy are credited to you demat account,usually,in how many days ?
Answer : T(Transaction day) + 2 days

7) What does it mean if a company announces bonus shares in the ratio of 5:1 ?
Answer : One bonus share for every five shares held

8) What is the name of the organization that regulates the securities markets in India ?
Answer : SEBI (Securities & Exchange Board of India)

9) Stock split increases a company's equity capital : True or false ?
Answer : False

10) Which of the following investments has the highest liquidity : shares,fixed deposit,closed-end mutual funds?
Answer : Shares

Stock Market Quiz- 5

Investment Joke Definitions / Wall Street Jokes / Stock Market Jokes

1) Broker: What you become after investing in dot com stocks.

2) Bull: What comes out of your stockbroker's mouth.

3) Bear: What your brokerage account becomes after investing in Enron.

4) Short: What you end up being after shorting stocks in your portfolio.

5) Bond: A thing you used to have between you and your stockbroker before he lost your money.

6) Call: What a stockbroker does when he has a hot tip for you.

7) Tip: What you won't be leaving your waiter, if you invest based on his hot stock ideas.

8) Over the Counter: Where you'll be getting your food from when you go out to dinner, after losing your money in the stock market.

9) Volume: What you turn up on the radio when the financial report comes on.

Stock Market Quiz- 4

1) What was the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history (as of November 2009)?
Answer : Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc.


2) What is the oldest stock exchange in the United States?
Answer : Philadelphia Stock Exchange 


3) What is the oldest commodities exchange in the U.S.?
Answer : Chicago Board of Trade 


4) The highest priced share of stock that ever traded was of what company?
Answer : Yahoo! Japan


5) Who said, "An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest"?
Answer : Benjamin Franklin


6) What were the five oldest stock exchanges worldwide?
Answer : Antwerp Bourse 1460 
              Lyons Bourse 1506
             Toulouse Bourse 1549
            Hamburg Bourse 1558
           London Royal Exchange 1571

7) What was the first listed company on the New York Stock Exchange?

Answer : Bank of New York

8) What were the first publicly traded securities in the U.S.?

Answer : $80 million in U.S. Government bonds that were issued in 1790 to refinance Revolutionary War debt.

9) Who was the first female member of the NYSE?

Answer : Muriel Siebert, who became a member on December 28, 1967

10) What was the first African American owned NYSE member firm?

Answer : Daniels & Bell Inc., in 1971

Stock Market Quiz- 3

1) What is the Stock Market?
Answer : The Stock Market is a market where people can buy stocks which are shares of companies.


2) What does DJIA stand for?
Answer : Dow Jones Industrial Average


3) What are the only Nasdaq stocks in the DJIA?
Answer : Microsoft and Intel


4) What stock has been in the DJIA since the DJIA started?
Answer : General Electric


5) What does the bear and the bull stand for?
Answer : The bear means stocks are falling and the bull means stocks are going up.


6) What was the nickname for the day(s) when the Stock Market crashed?
Answer : Black Thursday


7) Who was Dow Jones?
Answer : The person who invented the DJIA.


8) How long has DJIA existed?
Answer : 100-110 years


9) What does Yuppie  mean?
Answer : A slang term denoting the market segment of young urban professionals. A yuppie is often characterized by youth, affluence and business success.

10) What does Champagne Stock mean?
Answer : A champagne stock is typically one that has at least doubled or tripled in value in a relatively short period, creating a huge profit for the company's shareholders.

Stock Market Quiz- 2

1) A stock market is also known as:
Answer : Equity Market

2) What is done in Stock Market?
Answer : Trading

3) The estimated price of the stock marketis at
Answer : 51 trillion dollars

4) The value of the derivative market is situated in :
Answer : National Values

5) A fixed income security is also called :
Answer : Actual Value

6) Actual trades are based on this paradign
Answer : Auction Market

7) The New York Stock Exchange is called :
Answer : Physical change

8) ---------- Record is sent back to the brokerage firm
Answer : Tape

9) Demat is acronym for---------
Answer : Dematerilization

10) EPS is acronym for---------
Answer : Earning Per Share

Stock Market Quiz- 1

1) Name the index which used to detect the Bullish or Bearish trend in stock market?
Answer : Advance-Decline Index


2) What are the certificates issued by the US depository bank representing the shares of a foriegn company?
Answer : American Depository Receipts


3) What was formed under the Banyan tree at Hormiman Circle?
Answer : Bombay Stock Exchange


4) What does Chalu Upla mean in stock trading?
Answer : An Unofficial Deal


5) How is the interest paid by the buyers on the borrowed fund in carry forward transaction called?
Answer : Contango


6) Name the Stock Market Regulator in United kingdom?
Answer : Financial Services Authority


7) Name the first Public Sector share quoted on the Bombay Stock Exchange?
Answer : Hindustan Corporation Petroleum Limited


8) Name the First women President of a Stock Exchange in India?
Answer : Omana Abraham of Cochin Stock Exchange


9) What is DJIA in world stock market trading?
Answer : Dow Jones Industrial Average,an average of 30 blue chip stocks


10) Which is the first foreign company listed on NYSE?
Answer : Sony

Bank's Punchline Series - 3

1) Dena Bank - Trusted Family Bank


2) Federal Bank - Your Perfect Banking Partner


3) HDFC - We Understand Your World


4) IDBI Bank - Banking for all


5) Indian Bank - Taking Banking Technology to Common Man


6) Indian Overseas Bank - Good people to grow with


7) J & K Bank - Serving to Empower


8) Lakshmi Vilas Bank - The Changing Face of Prosperity


9) South Indian Bank - Experience Next Generation Banking

10) Syndicate Bank - Your Faithful And Friendly Financial Partner

Bank's Punchline Series - 2

1) Karur vysya bank - Smart way to bank

2) Oriental bank of commerce- Where every individual is committed

3) Punjab national bank - The name you can bank upon

4) SBI - With you-all the way

5) Union bank of India - Good people to bank with

6) World Bank - Working for a world free of poverty

7) VISA - enjoy life's opportunities

8) Allahabad Bank - A tradition of trust


9) Andhra Bank - Much more to do. with you in focus


10) Bank of Rajasthan - Together we Prosper

Bank's Punchline Series -1

1) Abn Amro Bank - Look Beyond

2) Asian Development Bank - Fighting poverty in Asia and the pacific

3) Bank of Baroda - India's International bank

4) Bank Of India - Relationship Beyond Banking


5) Bank of Rajasthan - together we prosper

6) Canara bank - serving to Grow, growing to serve

7) Central bank of India - Customized banking innovations


8) Deutche Bank - A passion to perform


9) HSBC - The world's local bank


10) ICICI bank - Safer, Simpler, Smarter

General Awareness Series - 11

  1)  _____of a stock or portfolio is a number describing the relation of its return with financial market as a whole.

Answer: Beta

2 )Which bank has opened green counter giving way to paperless banking?

Answer: SBI


3) Interest on saving bank accounts is calculated on -------- basis(according to RBIs new initiative)

Answer: A daily


4)  Basel Committee is related to----- norms.

Answer: Banking


5)  BPLR has been replaced by------

Answer: Base rate.


 6) Committee on interest rate and other rate---------

Answer: R.K Hajare committee


7)  IRDA it stands for

Answer: Insurance Regulatory & Development Authority.


8)  Key rates which is usually revised by RBI

Answer: Repo Rate.


 9) ---- is the company was the first in India to register on the American stock exchange- NASDAQ with an issue of two million American Depository Shares (ADR).

Answer : Infosy.

10) Top 1 Stock Exchange in the world

Answer: Newyork Stock Exchange




                                   By: Subha Hs
                                          MBA 2nd Year