The winner of the Business and Finance Christmas Quiz is Mr John Kelly from Rathfarnham in south Dublin. He works in information technology with the ESB and will receive a mixed case of wine - Findlater's Directors' Dozen. The winner of the participant's prize is Ms Mary Connellan, from Castleknock in Dublin, who will receive a bottle of port - Quinta do Noval.
The answers are as follows.
(1) The "Code Red" was a computer virus.
(2) A worker at the closure of Kylemore Bakery said: "The first I heard about it was when my mother rang me."
(3) The annual rate of inflation to November was 3.8 per cent.
(4) Con Scanlon was nominated deputy chairman of the new Eircom board by the ESOP Trust.
(5) It was false to say the following: the private client arm of Riada Stockbrokers didn't close down; ACCBank incurred losses of €21.8 billion (£17.17 billion) in 2000; and Miller Fisher incurred a loss of €500 million in 2000.
(6) Vincent Sheridan became chief executive of VHI.
(7) Dermot Desmond bought the sword used by Mel Gibson in the Academy Award winning firm, Braveheart, for $170,000 (€192,351), at Sotheby's in New York City.
(8) The Dutch Rabobank group paid €165 million (£129.9 million) for ACCBank.
(9) Peter Bacon said: "What I do is present the analysis ... You'll have to ask the Government what the measures are designed to do."
(10) The ISEQ Overall Share Index fell by 17 per cent in the week following the terrorist attacks in the US.
(11) IBEC was accused of "vulgar opportunism" by John Tierney, general secretary of MSF Union.
(12) AIB decided to change the venue of its a.g.m. to Dublin from Belfast due to foot-and-mouth disease.
(13) There was a net loss of 3,865 jobs in IDA-supported industries during 2001, according to preliminary figures.
(14) It was true to say the following: PJ Mara was named Jamaican trade representative; Cantrell & Cockrane purchased Findlater Wine Merchants; and three senior directors of Galen, and a charity, netted a £100 million sterling (€162 million) payout by selling shares in the company.
(15) A shareholder at Oakhill's a.g.m, with exasperation in his voice, said: "Hamlet without the Prince."
(16) AIB chairman Lochlann Quinn and his wife, Brenda, donated £4 million (€5.08 million) towards a new undergraduate school at University College Dublin.
(17) Minister for Public Enterprise, Ms O'Rourke, said: "In the social-economic integration, the banks should seek to give subvention to the upkeep of post offices where they are pulling out, far above the payment of transaction fees."
(18) The closure of Gateway's Dublin plant was estimated to cost the Irish economy in lost salaries and payments to local supply firms and contractors who did business with the multinational more than $50 million (€56 million).
(19) Kerry Group paid €245 million (£192.9 million) for Golden Vale.
(20) Aer Lingus sold its Jack B Yeats painting, By Merrion Strand, for £290,000 (€368,224).
