The winner of the 2006 Business This Year Christmas quiz is Sinéad Windle from Raheny, Dublin. Ms Windle works in Depfa Bank, and previously worked in business research. She was runner-up in a past Christmas Quiz.
She will receive a Berry Brothers & Rudd mixed case of claret.
The winner of the participant's prize is Christopher Kidney, who will receive a bottle of William Pickering 20-year-old Tawny port.
The answers are as follows:
(1) Charlie McCreevy said: "I didn't allow the experts to muck it up. It was a Charlie McCreevy idea and I played it and it worked."
(2) The name of the MS drug returned to the market by Elan was Tysabri.
(3) The Competition Authority warned that the ESB should be broken up.
(4) It was false to say that Bank of Ireland's Brian Goggin said that "it is in our interest to see customers borrow at a level they cannot afford"; true to say that Slovenia is to adopt the euro in 2007; and false to say that domestic gas prices increased by 68 per cent in October.
(5) The annual rate of inflation to mid-November was 4.4 per cent.
(6) Anglo Irish Bank sponsored the Irish Cancer Society's Nightingale Ball, at which model Roberta Rawat provided the visual impact.
(7) Aer Lingus breached takeover rules by the use of a graph showing the valuation of various European airlines based on their expected earnings in 2007 in its defence document.
(8) Thierry Breton said there should be "collective vigilance" over the euro's exchange rate.
(9) It is true to make these three statements: that RTÉ expects to earn €195 million from licence fees in 2007; that consumers were reimbursed €118 million by 36 financial services providers between May 2004 and July 2006; and that West Ham United accepted an £85 million bid from WH Holdings, a consortium of Icelandic businessmen.
(10) Micheál Martin said: "We cannot continue to have faith in agreements if they are not acted upon."
(11) The employees silhouetted were at an Aer Lingus celebration.
(12) CRH's first-half profits rose by 37 per cent to €526 million.
(13) It was at an Irish Press agm that a shareholder said: "Summon your courage, do the manly thing, pay O'Reilly the money and get him off our backs."
(14) It is false to say that David Went took over as chief executive of Irish Life & Permanent from Denis Casey; it is also false to say that Cosgrave Property Group did not purchase a shopping centre in Romford, east London, for €281 million; and false to say that top managers increased their salaries by 63 per cent in the 12 months to June.
(15) The closed fist belongs to Sir Anthony O'Reilly.
(16) A union accused Greencore of displaying a "voracious appetite for greed".
(17) Vista is the name of the new versions of Windows launched by Microsoft.
(18) The government of Guyana awarded a mobile licence to Digicel, a company controlled by Denis O'Brien.
(19) David Doyle was appointed as secretary general of the Department of Finance.
(20) Pat Byrne said Aer Lingus was "not behaving like a real plc".
(21) The name of the pub sold for €12 million is Bad Bobs.
(22) It is Michael O'Leary's opened hand.
(23) It was an action group from Smart Telecom that sought to facilitate "the visibility of actions taken by directors, shadow directors . . ."
(24) Tourism Ireland plans to have 50,000 Chinese visitors in Ireland in 2009.
(25) Former Enron chief executive Jeffrey Skilling who was sentenced to 24 years, has an electronic monitor on his ankle.
(26) Five Irish companies have been accused of trying to bribe foreign officials in the past year, according to a report from Transparency International.
(27) Treasury Holdings plans to build an eco-city in Chonming, China
(28) The goat was pictured with Vincent Cleary.
(29) The protest over a remuneration policy, described as a "yellow card", was against Vodafone.
(30) Cordis is to employ 460 people at the Cashel plant.
(31) It is false to say that Denis O'Brien paid €1.4 million in Malta's treasury bonds for a 2.1 per cent stake in Aer Lingus; false to say that ESB won a contract to advise the Afghanistan administration to build a powerful energy plant; and false to say that DCC purchased a waste-recycling business from Fyffes.
(32) Denis O'Brien received an honorary doctor of law at UCD.
(33) Batchelors won a €1 million order to supply Tesco with smoothies.
(34) The Quarterly National Household Survey showed almost half of new jobs were accounted for by foreign nationals.
(35) It took 23 years to wind up PMPS.
(36) Edward Twomey & Co, the famous Clonakilty black pudding company, served 300 kilos of its puddings to golfers and fans at the Ryder Cup.
