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100
The Duke of Wellington's victory at this 1815 battle brought an end to the Napoleonic era
What is Waterloo
100
Doom's proverbial rhyming partner
What is Gloom
100
A coin, an aroma & mailed
What is cent/scent/sent
100
The current record in this event has lasted 24 years (29 feet, 4.4 inches)
What is Long Jump
100
Did you buy $2,100 of stock in this Washington-based tech company in 1986 & sell in 1999? You made $1.4 million
What is Microsoft
200
A decisive victory at this January 1815 battle made Andrew Jackson a national hero
What is the Battle of New Orleans
200
It's a 5-letter word meaning "keen distress", Charlie Brown! Good...!
What is grief
200
To calculate relative mass, a specific road & a part of milk
What is weigh/way/whey
200
One degree of it is equal to about 69 miles at the equator
What is longitude
200
Forbes Magazine said Steve Jobs' best investment was buying this animation company in 1986 for $10 million
What is PIXAR
300
A Soviet victory, the Aug. 1942-Feb. 1943 battle of this Russian city reversed the Nazis' advance on the Eastern Front
What is Stalingrad
300
Dreary, like an 1852 title "House"
What is Bleak
300
Something worn to conceal the face, a low area & a ski resort of Colorado
What is veil/vale/Vail
300
Term for a 33 1/3 rpm phonograph disc
What is a Long Playing record (an LP)
300
This 2-named Wall Street investment bank said that in 2014 it "advised on... transactions valued at more than $1 trillion"
What is Goldman Sachs
400
A turning point of the Civil War was the Union victory in this 1862-1863 campaign in Mississippi
What is Vicksburg
400
his sad 10-letter state of mind is from the Greek for "black"
What is melancholy
400
A czar's tenure, a stallion stopper & a sprinkle
What is reign/rein/rain
400
This literary character has a parrot named Cap'n Flint
What is Long John Silver
400
He quit school at age 11 &, as a teen in 1810, bought his first boat; later, as a "commodore", he'd be worth $100 million
What is Cornelius Vanderbilt
500
Victory over Mark Antony in this 31 B.C. naval battle made Octavian the undisputed ruler of Rome
What is the battle of Actium
500
Like in the old song, "I am a man of constant" this
What is Sorrow
500
A sense, a place & to quote
What is sight/site/cite
500
Oyster Bay laps at its shores
What is Long Island
500
In English the name of this Mexican magnate means thin, but his wallet is fat--he & his family are worth $75 billion
What is Carlos Slim