Through the Ages
Tom Brokaw called the people who contributed to this war effort "The Greatest Generation."
World War II
This Roman god of beginnings can see forward in time as well as back in time.
Janus
No one wanted to hang out with someone who was this, a word meaning "boring" or a "buzzkill".
A drag
This is the word for the ancient Greek marketplace.
Agora
In this 1996 film, Tom Cruise plays a slick sports agent navigating big-money contracts and personal redemption, delivering the famous line, "Show me the money!"
Jerry Maguire
Members of this generation were born roughly between 1965-1980.
Generation X (Gen X)
This Greek god rules Mount Olympus.
Zeus
This group was known as the "Fab Four."
The Beatles
This is the largest online marketplace in North America and one of the largest in the world.
Amazon
In this 1983 film starring Eddie Murphy, two commodity-broker brothers make a $1 bet to determine whether heredity or environment determines the course of a man's life.
Trading Places
This descriptor is given to people who reach 100 years of age.
Centenarian
The Greek god Poseidon and his Roman counterpart Neptune are gods of this place.
The sea
When we stayed out past curfew, our parents did this to their lids, meaning "get upset."
Flip
During the 1970s, this large brokage began to lead the industry in market trades without a broker, slashing fees and allowing clients the freedom to choose their own investments without interference and guidance.
Charles Schwab
In 2005 film The Smartest Guys in the Room is a true story about this company, once headed by Ken Lay.
Enron
The 50th wedding anniversary is often called this.
Golden anniversary
The Roman god Pluto rules the underworld; his ancient Greek counterpart is this god.
Hades
They were known as "heat."
Police
It's the largest online auction marketplace in the world.
eBay
In this 1987 film, Michael Douglas plays Gordon Gekko and says, "Greed is good."
Wall Street
Generation Y follows Generation X and is often referred to by this name.
Millennials
Aphrodite and Venus are the goddesses of this emotion.
Love (or romance)
Teenage boys in their muscle cars did this, meaning leaving tire marks on the road from a fast start or stop.
"Laid rubber"
This company launched in 1997 as a DVD-by-mail rental service and is now a streaming platform with an app, offering original films, TV shows, and popular studio content.
Netflix
This actor of Titanic fame plays the lead role of Jordan Belfort, an ex-con who teams up with a partner to open a brokerage in the 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street.
Leonardo DiCaprio