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Fourteen years ago, I started the tradition of giving Rochester Business Journal readers a quiz on the year’s local business news. I’ll admit it has not been easy to ace this test. So this year I’m making it a bit easier by putting the quiz in the same issue as our article on the top local business news stories of the year. So, simply reading the article found on page one will give you a decided edge.
As always, the quiz tests your knowledge of the year’s significant local business news, drawing on articles published in our newspaper over the past 12 months. Each correct answer earns one point; a perfect score is 20 points. For the answers, turn to page 12. Good luck!
1. In February, the city of Rochester walked away from an option-which cost it $250,000-giving the city exclusive rights to buy Midtown Plaza. Under the contract, what was the price tag for Midtown?
2. The city sold the fast ferry to a German company for $30 million. Name the company.
3. Bausch & Lomb Inc. agreed to be acquired by Warburg Pincus LLC. What company made a rival bid for Bausch & Lomb?
4. Name the company whose chief strategy and development officer said: “The United States requires more energy. It requires more clean energy. … The opportunities are there.”
5. Who was named president of Xerox Corp. and became heir apparent to CEO Anne Mulcahy?
6. Carestream Health Inc. was formed with the sale of Eastman Kodak Co.’s former health group. Who owns Carestream?
7. GateHouse Media’s $18 million purchase of Messenger Post Newspapers was just one of several acquisitions by the Perinton-based company. Who is GateHouse Media’s CEO?
8. What was Rochester mayor Robert Duffy referring to when he said: “It has been an albatross. It has been something we drive by consistently and have not seen any bright light.”
9. One of the largest private companies in Rochester filed for bankruptcy. At its peak, the firm’s annual revenues were more than $700 million. Name the company.
10. Jean-Claude Brizard, hired as new Rochester City School District chief, is a native of what country?
11. Name the person who said: “In my world, the business world, these things are settled with a glance and an eyebrow. In the academic world I think it requires an act of Congress.”
12. Kodak made its long-awaited, and long-promised, entry into what market?
13. Adam Bersin sold the Medley Centre. Who purchased the struggling mall?
14. Name the person who said: “I have the money, but I’ve been trying to spread it around the community. These government officials try to rip it off.”
15. After going public in a merger with US Lec Corp., Paetec Holding Corp. completed an acquisition that roughly doubled its size. Name the firm it acquired.
16. Under Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks’ F.A.I.R. plan, by what percentage was the share of sales tax revenues received by suburban school districts reduced?
17. Who gave the commencement address at Rochester Institute of Technology as its retiring president, Albert Simone, prepared to hand the reins to William Destler?
18. Name the person who said: “Together we’re going to transform this city from the Flower City to one of the great cities of the 21st century. Everyone is singing from the same page.”
19. Name the company that officially opened a nearly $100 million facility in Livingston County.
20. What was Kodak chairman and CEO Antonio Perez referring to when he said: “It was going to drop like a rock”?
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The Editor’s Notes column published Dec. 28 contained an error.
Paetec Holding Corp.’s acquisition of McLeodUSA Inc. is expected to
be completed in the first quarter of 2008.

12/28/07 (C) Rochester Business Journal