Mixology 101
Legend has it this cocktail was invented in Florence in 1919 when Count Camillo asked a bartender to stiffen his Americano by swapping out the soda water for gin.
What is a Negroni?
If you sell a stock, bond, or piece of real estate for a profit, the IRS will expect you to pay this specific two-word type of tax on the difference.
What is Capital Gains tax?
Decades before earning an R-rating for the violent, mob-driven Goodfellas, this legendary auteur directed the PG-rated, 3D family adventure Hugo.
Who is Martin Scorsese?
In anatomy, it’s an adjective meaning "lying face upward"; in personality, it means failing to act or protest due to moral weakness.
What is supine?
Still unsolved, the 1990 theft of 13 masterpieces—including Rembrandt's only known seascape—took place when two men disguised as police officers bluffed their way into this Boston museum.
What is the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum?
To properly make this New Orleans classic, you must rinse the glass with an anise-flavored liqueur or Absinthe before adding rye whiskey, a sugar cube, and Peychaud's Bitters.
What is a Sazerac?
ntroduced in England in 1696 to tax the wealthy without an income tax, this levy notoriously led to homeowners bricking up specific parts of their houses to avoid paying it.
What is the Window Tax?
He won an Oscar for directing the hard-R dystopian nightmare Mad Max: Fury Road, but in 1998, he directed the wholesome, G-rated sequel Babe: Pig in the City.
Who is George Miller?
Derived from the Latin word for donkey, this 7-letter adjective is used to describe behavior that is extremely foolish, stubborn, or stupid.
What is asinine?
In 1971, an unidentified man hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines flight, extorted $200,000, and parachuted into the freezing Pacific Northwest night, cementing this alias in American folklore.
Who is D.B. Cooper?
Hugo Ensslin’s 1916 recipe for this gin-based cocktail owes its distinct, pale-sky hue to the inclusion of crème de violette.
What is an Aviation?
Form 1099-MISC used to be the standard for freelancers, but in 2020, the IRS revived this specific four-letter suffix form exclusively to report non-employee compensation.
What is the 1099-NEC?
Known for surreal, disturbing adult thrillers like Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, he took a sharp turn in 1999 to direct The Straight Story, a G-rated Disney film about a man driving a lawnmower across Iowa.
Who is David Lynch?
Found heavily in the bark of cinchona trees, this bitter, crystalline alkaloid was historically used as an antimalarial drug and is what gives tonic water its distinct taste.
What is quinine?
In 1911, Vincenzo Peruggia successfully stole this iconic painting by hiding in a Louvre broom closet overnight and simply walking out with it hidden beneath his smock the next morning.
What is the Mona Lisa?
Named after a 19th-century firearm, this cocktail combines gin, lemon juice, and simple syrup, topped with Champagne—a bubbly twist on a classic Tom Collins.
What is a French 75?
Savvy real estate investors use Section 1031 of the tax code to perform a "like-kind" swap of properties, allowing them to legally delay paying capital gains; a maneuver commonly called this.
What is a tax deferment? (Acceptable: What is a 1031 Exchange?)
Before he was directing sweeping, R-rated historical epics like Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan, his first theatrical feature was this 1974 PG-rated crime drama starring Goldie Hawn as a mother trying to reclaim her baby.
What is The Sugarland Express? (Director: Steven Spielberg)
If you are describing something relating to, or resembling a cow or an ox, you would use this 6-letter adjective.
What is bovine?
Leonardo Notarbartolo and his crew bypassed 10 layers of elite security, including infrared heat detectors and a seismic sensor, to pull off a $100 million diamond heist in 2003 in this Belgian city.
What is Antwerp?
Often mistaken for a tropical vacation drink, this classic originally required rum, lime, and a specific almond-flavored syrup called orgeat, invented at Trader Vic's in 1944.
What is a Mai Tai?
In 1990, Congress attempted to tax high-end jewelry, furs, and private jets with this "luxurious" levy, but repealed it in 1993 after it devastated the American yacht-building industry.
What is the Luxury Tax?
Long before creating the brutal, R-rated post-apocalyptic film Children of Men and the tense space thriller Gravity, this Mexican director helmed the 1995 PG-rated adaptation of A Little Princess.
Who is Alfonso Cuarón?
A favorite word of Gothic novelists, this 10-letter adjective describes something highly intricate, labyrinthine, or resembling the complex twists of a certain underground maze in Crete.
What is serpentine?
Orchestrated by mobster Jimmy Burke and famously immortalized on screen in the movie Goodfellas, this 1978 robbery at JFK Airport netted nearly $6 million in untraceable cash and jewels.
What is the Lufthansa heist?