Ciaran Hancock's Christmas quiz

Your chance to win an iPad; E-mail your answers along with your name, address and phone number to chancock@irishtimes.com, with 2010 Business Quiz in the subject line.

1Who is the non-executive chairman of Irish listed company IFG?

2Why was Zowington Ltd in the headlines in 2010?

3Bord Gáis opened its first gas-fired electricity generating plant this year. Where is the plant located?

4Which company has agreed to acquire Goodbody Stockbrokers?

5In what year was Greencore chief executive Patrick Coveney born? Was it 1968, 1969, 1970 or 1971?

6Who did Bill Cullen hire in this year's version of The Apprentice on TV3?

7Name the three banks that made up the syndicate of secured lenders to which McInerney Homes owed about €113 million when it went into examinership in September.

8Which global media boss said this year: "I presided over the worst deal of the century."

9Which Irish property developer owns the horse pictured on this page?

10What line from a Tom Cruise movie did financial regulator Matthew Elderfield cite when recounting that he told Quinn Insurance it needed more capital?

11What value did former Anglo Irish Bank chief executive David Drumm put on the family dog in a bankruptcy filing in the US?

12Name the senior executive who has responsibility for the Ballygowan and Club soft drinks brands in Ireland?

13How much, to the nearest thousand euro, was ESB chief executive Padraig McManus's total remuneration in 2009?

14Flight EI205 earned a place in Irish aviation history in 2010. Why?

15In what month this year was former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Seán FitzPatrick arrested at 6.30am at his home in Greystones by Garda Bureau of Fraud?

16What business was launched by Donal Lawless and Stuart Kelly this year?

17Why did just more than 4,000 farmers gather in Kildalton College, Co Kilkenny, on May 10th?

18By what English name is An tÚdarás Iomaíochta better known by the business community?

19Which Irish financial institution was fined €2 million recently by the Central Bank for overcharging?

20What does the acronym SRR stand for?

21Name the aviation leasing business which was set up by Dómhnal Slattery in 2010?

22Which two retailers commenced sponsorship deals this year with the GAA for the All-Ireland senior hurling and football championships?

23Who is the current owner of the Lisheen lead and zinc mine in Co Tipperary?

24What was the highest yield reached by 10-year Irish government bonds on world markets before the signing of the IMF-EU bailout deal?

25Who won the 2010 Ernst Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award?

26Which executive famously said: "I would like my life back" in 2010, a statement that led to him having to step down from his position a short time afterwards?

27Which car manufacturer got into hot water in 2010 after having to recall millions of vehicles because of problems with sticky accelerator pedals?

28What, according to an independent accountant's report, was Pierse Contracting's deficit when the High Court placed it in liquidation last November?

29Who said: "The HP board just made the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs many years ago?"

30Which company closed a venture capital investment this year that valued the business at €2.8 billion?

31Name the computer game for smart-phones that was downloaded more than 50 million times this year?

32By the end of 2010, how much will Anglo Irish Bank have received in four tranches of state aid approved by the European Commission?

33Which ferry ship was sold recently by Irish Continental Group?

34Name the business leader in the photograph (left)

35The UPC brand name was launched here earlier this year. But which two names had the cable TV company used in Ireland previously?

36Former AIB trader John Foy successfully pursued legal action against the bank to secure the payment of a bonus due to him from 2008. How much was he due?

37This Irish listed company began 2010 sharing a name with an affluent suburb of Dublin. But it closed the year with the same name as a well-known Royal estate in Britain. Name the company.

38Who are the joint administrators of Quinn Insurance Ltd?

39Which 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?

40In May, the Irish Stock Exchange changed the name of its market for growth companies. What is it now called?