Christmas Quiz

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20 Dec 2001

Christmas Quiz

This (third!) year's Christmas quiz is a crossword puzzle, heavily but not totally built from words we often use in the world of finance. Have fun. You can either submit the completed electronic form below or send your answers by fax to (852) 2509-9159 or e-mail to webmaster@hkma.gov.hk before midnight on 31 December 2001 (Hong Kong Time). We shall draw for the winners if more than one set of correct answers is received. The winner will receive a small prize. There is a Chinese version as well. The same arrangements will apply. But if you have correct answers for both the English and Chinese crosswords, you will be entitled to a separate draw and the winner will receive a bigger prize. The names of the winners and the correct answers will also be posted on the Viewpoint column of 3 January 2002. Staff members of the HKMA and their immediate family members are welcome to participate, but they will not be eligible for prizes.

Joseph Yam
20 December 2001

 

Christmas Quiz

 

Christmas Quiz

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ACROSS

5. Much about nothing (3)
7. The smaller ones have been tossed around badly (10)
8. Where central bankers converge every other month (3)
9. Town beheaded (3)
10. Back office's responsibility (10)
11. A kind of tropical tree (4)
12. A bank deposit that can be withdrawn immediately without notice or penalty (5)
14. A popular drink for Chinese (3)
16. An I-bank's typical advice when you want to sell something (8)
17. It fell off its bed on 2 July 1997 (4)
19. The old lady (3)
22. Travellers' home (3)
23. One of Hong Kong reporters' favourite subjects with Mainland financial authorities (4)
24. Call him Sir (3)
25. A trade involving the shorting of a currency with a low interest rate (5)
27. A plant that climbs up a tree (3)
28. Belonging to or associated with the person or people that the speaker is addressing (4)
30. You will be able to feel it three years after its birth (4)
33. A stiff bristle (3)
35. Where your credit worthiness is reflected (5)
37. Mine in foreign exchange market jargon (3)
38. Use it and you minimise your settlement risk (4)
39. Drop three zeros and multiply by 61, and you have this in Hong Kong dollars (3)

DOWN

1. The credibility of a central bank depends on it (14)
2. Another quality essential to a credible central bank (12)
3. Your role is to turn savings into investments (12)
4. Tiny (6)
5. You don't want them to be worth less than your liabilities (6)
6. The regulator at Canary Wharf (3)
8. Price your issue against it (9)
13. Bubble just burst (2)
15. A market not very well developed in this time zone (4)
18. A twelfth of the weight of Antonio's flesh that Shylock would have demanded if Shakespeare had been Chinese (4)
20. Not off (2)
21. In Hong Kong you need it to be called a bank (7)
26. How you want to feel when you are getting on (5)
29. (Illegal) trading (3)
31. The people's money (3)
32. A means of channelling "water" from the north to the south (3)
34. Market abbreviation of an Asian currency (3)
36. Most of Joseph Yam's horses start with these letters (2)

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