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200

A financial institution inside an armored vehicle.

What is tank bank?

200

Episodes of this Nickelodeon cartoon often ended with the titular character writing in his journal about lessons learned during his adventures with his friend, Skeeter Valentine, dog, Porkchop, and love interest, Patti Mayonnaise.

What is Doug?

200

In this city, you will find Wisconsin's largest mall.

What is Wauwatosa?

200

Over 1,000 financial institutions failed after taking on too much interest rate risk during the period which has been come to be known as this.

What was the Savings and Loan Crisis?

200

This team is the reigning World Series champions.

What is the Los Angeles Dodgers?

400

Credit taken to buy a mobile.

What is a phone loan?

400

This animated series got its start as a segment on The Tracey Ullman Show, with the family's first appearance on April 19, 1987.

What is The Simpsons?

400

Located near Rib Mountain, this city has played host to the Badger State Winter Games since 1989 and the summer games since 2012.

What is Wausau?

400

Way before the Federal Reserve System, the First Bank of the United States was the nation's central bank and the brainchild of this founding father and subject of a 2015 musical.

Who is Alexander Hamilton?

400
After Babe Ruth was sold to the New York Yankees in 1920, baseball fans thought this team was cursed because it didn't win another World Series until 2004.

What is the Boston Red Sox?

600

The current DFI Secretary has become very flexible after she attended her eighth yoga class.

What is bendy Wendy?

600

Created by the same man who created Let's Go Luna and Camp Lazlo, this show follows the surreal life of an easily frightened wallaby.

What is Rocko's Modern Life?

600
The Trek Bicycle Corporation is headquartered in this city.

What is Waterloo?

600

After a 9 day bank run, this bank was seized by the Office of Thrift Supervision on September 25, 2008. It's failure was the largest in US history.

What is Washington Mutual?

600

The volume of space directly above home plate from the batter's knees to the mid-point between the tops of the shoulders and the tops of the pants forms a pentagonal prism known as this.

What is the strike zone?

800

Network signal that floats through the air and a potential nickname for the DOB examiner who inspects it.

What is Wi-Fi Bri?

800

This Cartoon Network show features a bespectacled boy-genius, who is at odds with his older and more extraverted sister, Dee Dee.

What is Dexter's Laboratory?

800

This city is the only Wisconsin city that fits the category that is also home to a public, 4-year university.

What is Whitewater?

800

According to former FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg, the 2023 failures of Silicon Valley Bank and others highlighted the vulnerabilities that can result when banks have a heavy reliance on these for funding.

What are uninsured deposits?

800

After a public vote, the record breaking 756th homerun ball hit by this former major leaguer was branded with an asterisk before being sent to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Who is Barry Bonds?

1000

The current FDIC chairman purchased a controlling share of the maker of Cheerios and Lucky Charms then added his name.

What is Travis Hill's General Mills?

1000

Two animated short films featuring a dim-witted, middle-aged man named Larry and intelligent dog named Steve led to the creation of this series that debuted on January 31, 1999.

What is Family Guy?

1000

In 1996, a train derailment caused 2,300 citizens of this city to be evacuated for 18 days.

What is Weyauwega?

1000

While effectively already dead, this act, which prohibited the comingling of commercial and investment banking activities, was officially repealed in 1999 by the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act.

What is the Glass–Steagall Act?

1000

The most recent of four major leaguers to hit a homerun as a teenager and after turning 40, he hit his first dinger at the age of 19 on June 12, 1995 and also went yard one day after his fortieth birthday, on July 28, 2015.

Who is Alex Rodriguez?