The winner of the Business This Year Christmas Quiz is Geraldine Kenny from Raheny, Dublin. She will receive a Berry Bros & Rudd mixed case of claret.
The participant's prize has been won by Mary Hayes from Bray, Co Wicklow. She will receive a bottle of William Pickering 20-year-old tawny port.
The answers are:
(1) David Drumm said "our stellar results are not going to fix the market, but it might silence a few people".
(2) The Icelandic bank interested, with another party, in acquiring Irish Nationwide Building Society was Kaupthing.
(3) The 670 members of Clontarf Golf Club were each to receive €100,000 under a proposed deal with developers.
(4) Lochlann Quinn is to succeed Tadhg O'Donoghue as chairman of the ESB.
(5) It is true to say that Aer Lingus dropped Dubai from its 2008 summer schedule; false to say that former U2 stylish Lola Cashman took a Panama hat from the U2 group; and false to say that Aer Lingus sold its 20 per cent stake in the Spanish airline, Futura, for €113 million.
(6) Lorraine Keane (pictured top) is sitting with Simon Burke, right, and is being served by Bruce Langlands, both from Superquinn, at the launch of a food collection in Dublin.
(7) Eugene Sheehy said "we have hundreds and hundreds of solicitors around the country".
(8) Moonduster increased its stake in ICG.
(9) The annual rate of inflation in October was 4.8 per cent.
(10) The eyes were those of Dermot Byrne (pictured bottom right).
(11) It is false to say that C&C did not announce plans to cut its workforce by 150 in Ireland; it is true to say that the Blackrock Clinic increased its operating profit by 28 per cent to €11.9 million in 2006; and false to say that Tony O'Reilly jnr said the new Providence Resources field has the potential to be "bigger than anything coming out of Venezuela".
(12) Denis O'Brien said "it helped massively to be an Irish Catholic", adding that it was a "hell of a calling card".
(13) Hugo Chávez in August said that oil prices would rise to $100 a barrel.
(14) Brian Goggin said "there is nothing wrong with 100 per cent mortgages".
(15) In September, 1,000 worried Northern Rock depositors were reported to have contacted the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority.
(16) The average chief executive pay ranged from €134,000 to €312,000 in June, according to the IMI.
(17) Nigel Blow (pictured bottom left) posed with the models.
(18) Seán FitzPatrick said the level of suspicion with which entrepreneurs are treated within the regulatory regime amounts to "corporate McCarthyism".
(19) Dermot Mannion's pay package was worth €982,000 last year.
(20) Michael Smurfit said: "I did it 'my way' and when I see the . . . group today, it was the 'right way'."
(21) A member at the EBS agm described the remuneration of its chief executive as "executive pornography".
(22) Paul Wolfowitz, president of the World Bank, resigned after he arranged a 36 per cent pay rise for his girlfriend.
(23) Peer Steinbruck said "it is unfair to reduce tax rates and get money from the EU to finance public spending".
(24) There were 169,700 people on the live register in November.
(25) It is true to say that Fyffes plans to double sales and profits over the next five years; true that the European Commission prohibited Ryanair's proposed €1.5 billion takeover of Aer Lingus; and false to say that the Quinlan Private consortium agreed to acquire the Jurys Inns division of the Jurys Doyle Group for €3.165 billion.
(26) Michael McGrath was having an intense conversation with Brian Cowen.
(27) Michael O'Leary described the Commission for Aviation Regulation as "bloated".
(28) Small business accounts for 60 per cent of the workforce, according to the CSO.
(29) €3 billion was written off the value of Irish pension funds in November.
(30) Micheál Martin was turning the wheel at a power station in October.
(31) The top 25 hedge fund managers in the world earned almost $15 billion in 2006.
(32) Jean-Claude Trichet described the movements in the foreign markets as "brutal".
(33) Alan Greenspan said the US corporate sector was faring "remarkably well".
(34) Sir Anthony O'Reilly said "if you make an accusation against me and I'm able to rebut yours, I think it is gracious of you to retire and sort of withdraw your accusations".
(35) John McStay was the interim examiner appointed to International Securities Trading Corporation.
(36) Brendan Investments, promoted by TV personality, Eddie Hobbs, raised €13 million.
- Bill Murdoch
