Irish Times Business Xmas Quiz/ C. Hancock

macdonagh2007

Stuck on photo picture Q.34
Name the Business Leader in the photograph...guy with rimmed glasses

vinpaul

Any help on a few:
No 5 Patrick Coveney's birth year, 1968, 1969 1970 or 1971. I think its 1971
No 9 Owner of Race Horse pictured
No 10 Line from Tom Cruise Film Elderfield told Quinn Insurance it needed more capital
No 12 Ballygown Executive Pictured
No 30 Which Company closed a venture capital investment worth €2.8 billion.
No 32 How much did Anglo Irish Bank receive in state backing in 2010
No 34 Business leader Pictured
No 37 Is Blackrock the name of company that closed in 2010 with the same name as a well known Royal Estate in England.
No 40 ISE changed name of it's market for growth companies.What's it called.

bazza1

10 Show me the money

65bl

vinpaul wrote: »

Any help on a few:
No 5 Patrick Coveney's birth year, 1968, 1969 1970 or 1971. I think its 1971
Seen a line which said he was 37. That would be 1973! my guess is 1971 but it is only a guess
No 9 Owner of Race Horse pictured
Michael O Flynn
No 10 Line from Tom Cruise Film Elderfield told Quinn Insurance it needed more capital
"Show me the money"
No 12 Ballygown Executive Pictured
Andrew Richards
No 30 Which Company closed a venture capital investment worth €2.8 billion.
Need help with this one!
No 32 How much did Anglo Irish Bank receive in state backing in 2010
€29.3 billion - you should verify this for yourself but i believe it is the right answer
No 34 Business leader Pictured
Need help here too
No 37 Is Blackrock the name of company that closed in 2010 with the same name as a well known Royal Estate in England.
Balmoral International Land
No 40 ISE changed name of it's market for growth companies.What's it called.
Enterprise Securities Market

Hope these help

bl

bazza1

30 might be ILFS not sure though

macdonagh2007

What does ILFS stand for. Who are they. I am stuck on this question and getting nowhere it.

Cute Hoor

Q30 - Twitter

macdonagh2007

Q 30....Can't see how Twitter is the answer to this question or ILFS as mentioned earlier.
Could the correct answer be Bank of Ireland.....they raised capital during the year....Help on this one please

Cute Hoor

macdonagh2007 wrote: »

Q 30....Can't see how Twitter is the answer to this question or ILFS as mentioned earlier.
Could the correct answer be Bank of Ireland.....they raised capital during the year....Help on this one please

http://www.efinancialnews.com/story/2010-12-16/twitter-new-funding

macdonagh2007

Cute Hoor, can't argue with you. That looks like the correct answer alright.
I owe you one! Tired now, have to get up at 5.00am to leave son in Shannon Airport for flight to London. Off to bed.

Cute Hoor

macdonagh2007 wrote: »

Cute Hoor, can't argue with you. That looks like the correct answer alright.
I owe you one! Tired now, have to get up at 5.00am to leave son in Shannon Airport for flight to London. Off to bed.

Sweet dreams!

Sorta stuck on Q24 (as well as Q34) - What is the highest yield reached by 10 year Irish Government Bonds on world markets before the signing of the IMF-EU bailout deal.

I'm having trouble finding out when this bailout was 'signed' never mind the rate on the day.

Any help appreciated.

macdonagh2007

Q 24....Rate hit 9.26% on the 11th Nov 10. As far as I can see that was the highest.
Q 34. Have no answer yet.
On the road to Shannon. Will check in later when I get home.

65bl

macdonagh2007 wrote: »

Q 24....Rate hit 9.26% on the 11th Nov 10.

I believe this is correct.

Can anyone enlighten me as to what SRR stands for?

bl

Cute Hoor

65bl wrote: »

I believe this is correct.

Can anyone enlighten me as to what SRR stands for?

bl

Special Resolution Regime

vinpaul

macdonagh2007 wrote: »

What does ILFS stand for. Who are they. I am stuck on this question and getting nowhere it.

Discovered what ILFS stands for:
Infrastructional Leasing & Financial Services _
also mentioned as having value of €2.8 billion.
Could this be correct, although TWITTER might seem a better answer!!

HOOL75

Stuck on 14, 17 & 34. Any help please?

Gah

14 Flight EI205 earned a place in Irish aviation history in 2010. Why?
It was the fit flight to land at Dublin Airport T2

17 Why did just more than 4,000 farmers gather in Kildalton College, Co Kilkenny, on May 10th?
They were farmer shareholders who met and rejected a move to convert the Irish businesses of Glanbia plc into a farmer-owned co-operative

HOOL75

Thanks Gah, really appreciate it.

Still stuck on no. 34

McNab416

Stuck on 34 too - anybody with any ideas?

vektarman

I'm stuck on 34 also, if anyone has a scanner could they scan the picture, somebody glancing through this thread might recognise him.

Waltons

Also stuck on 34, any help appreciated!
Picture below

vektarman

Thanks for the picture Waltons, hopefully we'll be taken out of our misery soon.

vinpaul

Just found solution to Q 34 It' David Hodgkinson new Chairman of AIB.

Happy new year to all and best of luck on quiz. Can anyone confirm Patrick Coveney's year of Birth.

Waltons

vinpaul wrote: »

Just found solution to Q 34 It' David Hodgkinson new Chairman of AIB.

Happy new year to all and best of luck on quiz. Can anyone confirm Patrick Coveney's year of Birth.

You're a lifesaver, vinpaul! I've been on the AIB execs website about half a dozen times now, and Hodgkinson is the only one without a picture. Devastated.

bazza1

Hi

Stuck on Q 32

Loads of different sums on various sites!

What one is correct?

Thanks

vinpaul

Help!!

What is Patrick Coveney's year of birth. I'm going with 1971, but need confirmation. Last one for me;););)

bazza1

I had 1971 also

HOOL75

Thank you so, so much! I would never have known who was in that photo!

vinpaul

Am doing Sunday Independent Business Quiz 2010 from Dec 26th's paper, Closing date Jan 7th.

Any offers on Q28: "Which of these companies is the biggest by stockmarket value? Petrochina, Ormonde Mining, Prime Active Capital or Zamano. My choice is Petrochina but cant confirm. Would appreciate confirmation.

bazza1

I have Petrochina also . $1 trillion valued apparently

justaq

Petrochina is correct, it has a market cap of €226bn, the others are only tens of millions.

vinpaul

Thanks to Bazza1 and Justaq.
Will go with that answer. Good luck with entries

Quiggers59

macdonagh2007 wrote: »

Stuck on photo picture Q.34
Name the Business Leader in the photograph...guy with rimmed glasses

It looks a little like Chris Horn of Iona Technology,but its a tough one to guess I wish the person pictured would own up:)

Crania

Anyone know the answer to question 39: Which assets was Bank of Ireland ordered to sell by the European Commission earlier this year as a condition for the approval of state aid for the institution?

I think the answer is New Ireland Assurance Company plc and ICS Building Society but I'm not sure. Perhaps there's more assets they have to sell as well that I have left out.

For this, I can help with other questions if you need them.

Cheers!

vinpaul

Quiggers59 wrote: »

It looks a little like Chris Horn of Iona Technology,but its a tough one to guess I wish the person pictured would own up:)

After much searching I found him after a tip off. Its David Hodgkinson New Chairman of AIB

vinpaul

Crania wrote: »

Anyone know the answer to question 39: Which assets was Bank of Ireland ordered to sell by the European Commission earlier this year as a condition for the approval of state aid for the institution?

I think the answer is New Ireland Assurance Company plc and ICS Building Society but I'm not sure. Perhaps there's more assets they have to sell as well that I have left out.

For this, I can help with other questions if you need them.

Cheers!

ALSO "Bank of Ireland Asset Management" and "US Foreign Exchange". Dont know if these would need to be included in answer!!!!

asteroid

Any ideas yet on no 34. Have tried everything. desperate

asteroid

Still stuck on number 34. Does anyone out there know the answer?

Crania

asteroid wrote: »

Still stuck on number 34. Does anyone out there know the answer?

It's David Hodgkinson, the new Chairman of AIB. If you do a Google Image search, the same picture of him comes up so it's definitely him.

Anyone have a concrete answer for 39? DO people think "Bank of Ireland Asset Management" and "US Foreign Exchange" need to be included as part of it?

nickih

Question 32... How much in the end of this disastrous year will Anglo have received?.... this quiz can be so depressing

asteroid

Thanks Crania. It looks good.
Only 2 more to go!

bogfire

I think 34 was the new AIB chairman David Hodgkins

So does anyone know if the competition winner was announced or when it will be announced - will we get the list of correct answers.

vinpaul

bogfire wrote: »

I think 34 was the new AIB chairman David Hodgkins

So does anyone know if the competition winner was announced or when it will be announced - will we get the list of correct answers.

Closing date was Jan 7th so I assume result should be in next week's paper. I guess they will issue answers at the same time.

Crania

Hope everyone got their entries in in time. Best of luck everyone!

pog it

Does anyone know did they annouce the winner of either of the quizzes?

Fenno

pog it wrote: »

Does anyone know did they annouce the winner of either of the quizzes?

Yup. See http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2011/0121/1224288007189.html -- has the winner (and it wasn't me, sadly!) plus the correct answers.

asteroid

Ah well. Better luck next year! :mad: