Answers to The Strategist biz quiz

1. Which of the four public sector oil refiners "" IOC, HPCL, BPCL and IBP "" is not a nationalised company?

Indian Oil Company

2. What does BPL stand for?

British Physical Laboratories

3. Which is the first financial institution to be set up by the Indian government?

IFCI

4. In which year did India record a deflation for the first and only time?

1976

5. Who was the first finance minister to sell India's gold reserves abroad?

Yashwant Sinha

6. He is credited with coining the term "venture capital" and organised the funding, notably in Apple, that got the computer revolution underway. What is his name?

Arthur Rock

7. Adam Smith's best-known book, The Wealth of Nations was actually the second of a three-volume set, although the third volume was never written. What was the title of the first book in this set?

The Theory of Moral Sentiments

8. Management thinker Sumantra Ghosal worked in an Indian public sector corporation for 12 years. Which one?

Indian Oil Company

9. Who was the first Indian director of the London School of Economics?

I G Patel

10. Who presented the first budget of independent India?

R K Shanmukham Shetty

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