Bangalore Metro 2011

Namma metro (Our metro) also known as Bangalore Metro

Agency : Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (BMRCL)

1st reach of 1st Phase : Baiyappanahalli to M.G.Road is scheduled to open on 20th October 2011

Number of Stations : 6 Stations

Name of Stations : M.G.Road, Trinity Cricle, Ulsoor, Indiranager, Swami Vivekananda Road and Byappahalli

Number of Kilometers : 7km

Fare or Ticket cost of Metro : Minimum Rs.10 and Maximum Rs.15

Smart Cards

Varshik : Priced at Rs.100 and the smart card can be recharged from Rs.50 to upto Rs.1,500 with 1 year validity at 15% discount on travel fares

Sanchar : Based on number of trips and is available in denominations of Rs.10, Rs.40, Rs.50 and Rs.100

Saral : Priced at Rs.70 and allows a day's travel in non-A/C buses of BMTC and the metro

Saraag : Priced at Rs.110 and allows a day's travel in BMTC A/C buses and the metro

Financial World - 1

1) What does Yuppie  mean?

A slang term denoting the market segment of young urban professionals. A yuppie is often characterized by youth, affluence and business success.

2) What does Champagne Stock mean?

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.

3) What Does Tech Bubble Mean?
A pronounced and unsustainable market rise attributed to increased speculation in technology stocks. A tech bubble is highlighted by rapid share price growth and high valuations based on standard metrics like price/earnings ratio or price/sales.

4) What Does Angelina Jolie Stock Index Mean?
An index made up of a selection of stocks from companies associated with actress Angela Jolie. Seen as one of the world's most influential celebrities, some analysts believe that companies connected with Jolie will outperform their competition.

5) What Does Bo Derek Mean?
A slang term used to describe a perfect stock or investment. In the 1979 hit movie "10", actress Bo Derek portrayed the "perfect woman", or "the perfect 10". 

Airtel Indian Grand Prix 2011-Formula One Race

1) In which city the first ever formula one race will be held in India?
Answer : Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh

2) Who is the title sponsor for the Indian Grand Prix?
Answer : Airtel

3) What is the name given to the race which will be held?
Answer : Airtel Indian Grand Prix

4) On which date Airtel Indian Grand Prix will be held?
Answer : 30th October,2011

5) What is the race track for the Indian Grand Prix called?
Answer : Buddh International Circuit

6) Who has designed Buddh International Circuit?
Answer : Mr.Hermann Tike

7) What is the length of Buddh International Circuit?
Answer : 5.137 kms

8) What is the total number of laps in Airtel Indian Grand Prix?
Answer : 60

9) Which Indian infrastructure company has got the contract of building the infrastructure of the event?
Answer : Jaiprakash Associates contract for 10 years

10) Which race director gave the nod related to race track for Indian Grand Prix?
Answer : Mr.Charlie Whiting

11) Who was initially appointed to head the Indian Grand Prix 2011?
Answer : Mr.Mark Hughes

12) Who replaced Mark Hughes as chief of Airtel Indian Grand Prix 2011?
Answer : Mr.Azhar Rehman

13) Which Indian company is sponsoring Mr.Narain Karthikeyan in Airtel Indian Grand Prix 2011?
Answer : Hero Motocorp

14) Who is the owner of Force India F1 team?
Answer : Mr.Vijay Mallya

15) What is the official website link for F1 Indian Grand Prix 2011?
Answer : formula1.com/races/in_detail/india_863

16) Which automobile company has signed an agreement to be the automotive partner for Airtel Indian Grand Prix 2011?
Answer : Mercedez Benz

17) Which company has planned to setup a driving academy at Buddh International Circuit?
Answer : Jaypee Sports International

18) Who is the CEO of Airtel?
Answer : Sunil Mittal

19) Who is the CEO of Jaypee Sports International?
Answer : Mr.Samir Gaur

20) Who is the President and CEO of Formula One?
Answer: Bernie Ecclestone

Dussehra or Navaratri Quiz

1) What is the significance of Vijayadashmi?

Answer : It denotes the victory of truth over the evil

2) Which Asura was killed on Vijayadashmi? 

Answer : Mahishasura

3) Who killed Mahishasura? 

Answer : Goddess Chamundeshwari

4) During which era celebration of Dasara festival began? 

Answer : Vijayanagar Kingdom

5) Who was the first king from Wodeyar family to perform the puja during Dasara? 

Answer : Raja Wodeyar
 

6) Where is Chamundehswari temple located in Karnataka? 

Answer : Chamundi Hills, Mysore

7) By what name Dasara procession is famous? 

Answer : Jamboo Savari

8) Which animal will be the centre of attraction during Dasara festival? 

Answer : Elephant

9)Which god is worshipped during Dasara festival? 

Answer : Goddess Durga

10) Who currently holds the Durbar/Darbar during dasara festival? 

Answer : Srikantadatta Narasimharaj Wodeyar

11) Which tree will be worshipped during Dasara festival? 

Answer : Banni Tree (Shami Tree/Prosopsis Spicegera)

12) What is the centre of attraction during dasara festival? 

Answer : Exhibition

13) Which king started Dasara exhibition first? 

Answer : Chamaraja Wodeyar 10

Answer : Which sport is famous during dasara and attracts many sportsmen? 

Aswer : Wrestling (Kusti spardhe)

Apple Inc - A Brief Note

1) Who are the founders of Apple Incorporation? 
Answer : Steve Jobs, Ronald Wayne and Steve Wozniak

2) In which year Apple incorporation started its operations? 
Answer : 1976 (April 1st)

3) Where is the headquarters of Apple Inc located? 
Answer : California, USA

4) In which stock exchange Apple Inc is been listed? 
Answer : Nasdaq

5) What is the symbol of Apple Inc which is been traded in Nasdaq? 
Answer : AAPL

6) Who is the current CEO of Apple Inc? 
Answer : Tim Cook

7) Which is Apple's famous Brand in the Mobile phone segment? 
Answer : Iphone

8) By what name Apple's first product was known as? 
Answer : Apple 1

9) On which date Apple 2 was launched? 
Answer : April 16,1977

10) What are the different hardware brands which Apple owns? 
Answer : Desktop computers, Laptops, Ipods, Iphone and Ipad

11) What are the different softwares owned by Apple? 
Answer : Mac Operating system,Safari web browser and Itunes

12) In which year Apple introduced Macintosh Portable? 
Answer : 1989

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

General Awareness Series - 10

Insurance Special

1) Where was the first Life Insurance company was setup in India?
Answer : Calcutta

2) In which year was the first life insurance company was setup in India?
Answer : 1818

3) Which was the first life insurance company to be setup in India?
Answer : Oriental Life Insurance company

4) In which year Government of India started publishing returns of Insurance companies in India?
Answer : 1914

5) What was the statutory measure been taken to regulate the life business?
Answer : Indian Life Insurance Act was passed

6) Which act was passed to protect the interest of the investors who invest in Insurance?
Answer : Insurance Act in 1938

7) In which year an ordinance was passed to nationalise the Life Insurance sector?
Answer : 1956

8) In which year Life Insurance Corporation came into existence?
Answer : 1956

9) Which was the first general insurance company to be setup in India?
Answer : Triton Insurance Company private limited

10) In which year Nationalisation of General insurance took place?

Answer :1973
                

                                   By- Amit Jha
                                          MBA 2nd Year

General Awareness Series - 9

1) Where is the world’s largest diamond bourse situated?
Answer : India

2) What is the minimum amount which is exempted from tax for salaried person according to New Direct Tax Code (DTC) 2011 Bill?
Answer : 2 Lakh


3)   Which country is the largest recipient of World Bank loans?
Answer : India


4) What is Tobin tax?
Answer : Tax levied on spot conversion of one currency to other.


5) Where is the world’s first gold vending machine set up?
Answer : Abu Dhabi


6) Which is the second largest economy in the world after the United States?
Answer : China


7)  Who won the Finance Minister of the Year for Asia award 2010?
Answer : Indian finance minister


8)  What amount of the tax collected should be transferred to the state government according to the finance commission?
Answer :  32%


9) What is the overall debt of the centre and state be capped as suggested by the 13^th finance commission?
Answer :  68% of GDP


10) In which year IRDA was constituted as an autonomous body?
Answer : 2000

                                    By : Shailendra Kumar

                                            MBA 2nd Year

General Awareness Series - 8

1) In which asian stock exchange will the UK club Man United do a billion $ IPO ?

 Ans. Singapore

2) Loyalty programmes of airlines is old hat. Which airport in India has launched a program for travel agents and passengers ?

Ans. Rajiv Gandhi International Airport,  Hyderabad

3) What is grandparent dividend ?

Ans. The social benefits of growing with grand parents

4) When does a fund “broke the buck” ?

Ans. When its NAV goes down below 1 $

5) As per the CII INSEAD study of Global Innovation Index which country is ranked no 1 and what is India’s rank ?

Ans. Switzerland and 62

6) Which new co is positioned itself as India’s first dedicated education loan co. ?

Ans. Credila

7)  Which bankrupt tech company has sold its patents and patent apps to a consortium of cos for a solid US$ 4.5 B ?

Ans. Nortel

8) In private equity jargon what is dry powder ?

Ans.Money raised but not invested

9) In recent market share data for cola in US, Pepsi is no. 3. What are 1 & 2 ?

Ans. Coke and Diet Coke

10) What is “FIAT” money ?

Ans.  Money that has value only because of govt fiat or law

                                         By- Prabhat Kr Mathur
                                                 MBA 1st Year

General Awareness Series - 7

1) Who is all set to introduce Jan Lokpall Bill as a private member's bill in LokSabha?
Answer : BJP MP Varun Gandhi

2) Who has been appointed as joint Managing Director of Hero MotoCorp (formerly Hero Honda)?

Answer : Sunil Kant Munjal

3) Which company has launched Android tablet priced at Rs.6,250?

Answer : LACS (Lakshmi Access Communications Systems)

4) Which Bank has sought support of Rs.300 crore from the Government to fund business growth?

Answer : Corporation Bank

5) Name the deposit scheme that Indian Bank has launched for people under the financial inclusion plan.

Answer : Variable Recurring Deposit Scheme

6) Expand IBPS

Answer : Institute of Banking Personnel Selection

7) Which Bank's net profit dip to about 45% as it disclosed its Q1 earnings?

Answer : State Bank of India

8) Which is the world's First international town to be sponsored by UNESCO?

Answer : Auroville in Pondicherry

9) What is the maximum amount that can be withdrawn from a third-party ATM per transaction?

Answer : Rs.10,000

10) Which Bank has launced Debit Card with credit limit? Name the card.

Answer : IDBI Bank. IDBI Magic Card

General Awareness Series - 6

1) Private equity investors, invest in a company based mainly on :
Answer : the credibility and the valuation of the company 


2) ‘Sub Prime Lending' is a term applied to the loans made to :
Answer : Those borrowers who do not have a good credit history


3) Repo rate is decided by
 Answer : Reserve Bank Of India

4) Five Year Plans in India are finally approved by which body :

Answer : National Development Council                          

5) Structure of Basel II is based on how many pillars?

Answer :Three


6) Basel III in banks is being planned to be implemented from which years? 
Answer : 2019


7) Money Laundering refers to
 Answer : Conversion of Money which is illegally obtained

8) The price at which the Govt. Purchases food grain for maintaining the public distribution system is known as :

Answer : Procurement price

9) Who has taken charge as HAL's Director Corporate Planning and Marketing?

Answer : Baldev Singh

10) Which Bill in India is set to be tabled in Winter Parliament session?

Answer : Food bill

     

                                       By : Amresh Kr.Pandey

                                               MBA 2nd Year