Answers: Test your business IQ, 2009 edition

1. Boeing set the following dates for the first flight of its 787 Dreamliner:

A. Summer 2007; B. End of 2009; and C. First half of 2009. B turned out to be correct.

2. How many 787s has Boeing sold? (net orders as of Dec. 15)

B. 840

3. Microsoft launched which product this year:

C. Zune HD

4. In which country does Starbucks not have a shop?

D. Italy

5. Which statement about longtime Seattle real-estate developer Michael R. Mastro is NOT true:

B. The trustee charged with liquidating Mastro's assets says enough remains that his individual "Friends & Family" investors should get most of their money back.

6. Match the ex-bank with its size when it went under and the bank that took over its operations:

A. Bank of Clark County, Vancouver; 2. $446.5 million; Z. Umpqua Bank, Roseburg, Ore.

B. Westsound Bank, Bremerton; 3. $334.6 million; X. Kitsap Bank, Port Orchard

C. Venture Bank, Lacey; 1. $970.0 million; Y. First-Citizens Bank & Trust, Raleigh, N.C.

7. Match the quote to the speaker:

"We'd still be better off if we'd never heard of Charleston"

— Economist Dick Conway, referring to Boeing's announcement about second 787 production line going to South Carolina

Via has allowed Starbucks to "tap into new incremental use occasions and need states."

— Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz on national rollout of instant coffee

"This is not a company that needs to be pulled apart and left for the chickens."

— Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz before deal with Microsoft

"If we hadn't stopped [Lincoln Square expansion], I'd be down on my hands and knees gasping for breath."

— Developer Kemper Freeman on his mid-2008 halt to planned expansion of Lincoln Square, averting a heavy debt load.

8. Which Washington-based stock performed best (as of Dec. 22)?

C. Cell Therapeutics soared 715 percent, from 14 cents to $1.14.

9. What does Omeros do?

B. Develops drugs

10. Of the 20 worst-performing Northwest stocks in 2009 (as of Dec. 22), how many were banks?

A. 15

11. Washington's unemployment soared in 2009, to a seasonally adjusted 9.2 percent in November. Who was president the last time the state's jobless rate was that high?

C. Ronald Reagan