The past year has been particularly conducive for business. Nevertheless, there were failures as well as successes. Test your memory by putting an X in the appropriate box and send your entry not later than January 6th
(1) Who said "we have decided that we will buy, at a premium, all shares sold by our local people"?
Charlie McCreevy Jonathan Guinness
Mahathir Mohamad
(2) The annual rate of inflation in November was
1.6 per cent
4.0 per cent
9.0 per cent
(3) What profits did the Jefferson Smurfit Group generate in the six months to June 1997?
£0.2 million
£61.2 million £410 million
(4) True False James Bond was ordered by the High Court to attend the Bula Resources (Holdings) hearing.
Central Bank of Ireland made a contribution to the PDs
Charlie Haughey sold his Kerry island for $4 million.
(5) Who said "why won't they give me my money. It's all I have"?
Jim Stanley outside a Moscow bank
Bill Gates outside the Fed
Woman outside bank in Seoul
(6) True False
Tony O'Reilly decided to Naoimi Campbell joined the Bank of Ireland board
(7) Who bought Virgin Radio from Richard Branson?
Gay Byrne
Craig McKinney
DJ Chris Evans
(8) Bailey's Irish Cream Liqueur is estimated to account for what percentage of exports by value
0.01
1.5
9.7
(9) Tax allowance for widowed parents in the first tax year after the year of bereavement will be increased from £1,500 to what, with effect from April 1998?
£1,000
£5,000
£15,000
(10) What retirement bonus did Don Tidey receive?
£2 million sterling
£7 million sterling
£9 million sterling
(11) Who strongly requested people "not to be guided by groundless rumours and to act sensibly"?
Bertie Ahern
Larry Goodman
Governor of Bank of Japan (12) True False
Ben Dunne was reinstalled as executor of his late sister's will.
Green Property did not raise £60 million in rights issue.
Heiton raised $25 million in junior loan notes.
(13) How much did Ardagh decide to invest in a new glass bottle plant?
£25 million £90 million
£190 million
(14) How much did IAWS pay to buy Cuisine de France?
£51 million
£100 million
£200 million
(15) What new logo for tourism did Jim McDaid unveil in September?
Sod of turf in a Guinness glass
Leprechaun pointing the way to Ireland
Newly-designed impressionistic shamrock
(16) Who said "if the profession shows itself unable to deal adequately...then it will be incumbent on Government to take whatever action is necessary in the public interest"?
Mary O'Rourke
Tom Griffin
Mary Harney
(17) What designer does Waterford Crystal use for a range of glass stemware?
Paul Costello
Lainey Keogh
John Rocha
(18) Who, in good spirits, said "it's taken a long time to get there and there's still a long way to go"?
John Teeling
Dermot Desmond
Tony Mullins
(19) True False
NTMA got contract to man age Hong Kong's portfolio of foreign bonds
KPMG and Price Waterhouse agreed to merge
Microsoft did not agree to merge with Netscape Communications Corp
(20) Who is to succeed David Kingston as managing director of Irish Life Assurance?
Jack Casey
Michael Fingleton
David Went
Quiz compiled by Bill Murdoch
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