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INSIDE Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PAGE 3

Where did reggae and ska get started? International Info . . . . . P AGE 4

This week is the 35th anniversary of which life-saving technique? This Week in History . . . . . PAGE 5

What famous musician would be 100 this week? Birthdays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PAGE 5

How many small cubes are in a Rubik’s Cube? By the Numbers. . . . . . . . . PAGE 6 And more including: Crossword—PAGE 2 Trivia Quiz—PAGE 3 Cectic comic strip—PAGE 5 Sudoku—PAGE 6 Classifieds—PAGE 7

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By Kane Casolari This Tuesday is the fifth anniversary of the beginning of Ken Jennings’ record 74game winning streak on Jeopardy!, which earned him over $3 million. In recognition of this anniversary, Gist Weekly has some Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak (center) and two contestants during Armed Forces Week interesting facts about the show debuted in 1983. (A difJeopardy! and other game shows past ferent, network-owned version and present. ran from 1975 to 1991.) The • In the 1950s, quiz shows such as wheel is divided into 24 wedges Twenty-One were among the earliand weighs about 2 tons. est and most popular forms of game show. In late 1956, contest- • The “Monty Hall problem” is a famous probability paradox that ant Herb Stempel revealed that gets its name from the host of Twenty-One was fixed. Later, anLet’s Make a Deal. The problem other contestant named James goes like this: a game show conSnodgrass was found to have sent testant can choose between three himself the answers in advance doors. Behind one is a car; the via registered mail. Investigations others have goats behind them. and lower ratings for the quiz The contestant chooses a door. shows soon followed, leading to Then the host opens one of the most quiz shows being canceled. other doors, revealing a goat, and • Merv Griffin came up with the gives the contestant the option of idea for Jeopardy! a few years after changing his or her choice. Surthe quiz show scandals. He says prisingly, switching doubles the that he and his wife Julann talked odds of winning the car from one about how there had not been in three to two-in three. any successful “question and answer” shows since. They came up • The top prize in the U.S. version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is, with the idea of switching the forof course, one million dollars. mat, having contestants come up The show originated in the with the questions that matched United Kingdom, where the top provided answers. prize is worth even more: one • Wheel of Fortune has featured hosts million British pounds is worth Pat Sajak and Vanna White since almost 1.5 million U.S. dollars. the current, syndicated version of

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Word Search: Game Shows

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FUN AND GAMES Scavenger Hunt

Find the following game show names in the grid above. They may be forward, backward, up, down, or diagonal. Cash Cab

Newlywed Game

Deal or No Deal

Password (The) Price is Right

Family Feud

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Jeopardy (Who Wants to be Wheel (of Fortune) a) Millionaire Pyramid

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Family Feud Category: Something you’d yell at if it stopped working. Contestant’s Answer: Spouse. Category: An animal with three letters in its name. Contestant’s Answer: Alligator. Category: During what month of pregnancy does a woman begin to look pregnant? Contestant’s Answer: September. Category: A former president that most people would say is honest. Contestant’s Answer: Nixon. Category: Something that packrats have a hard time throwing out. Contestant’s Answer: Corn. Category: The age when a man might start to lose a lot of hair. Contestant’s Answer: Fourteen. Category: Something you should drink a lot of when you’re sick. Contestant’s Answer: Alcohol.

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ACROSS 1. The 26th Amendment lowered the age to do this* 5. Cannabis, to a Rastafarian* 10. Understood 14. Santa ___ (hot winds) 15. Land measures 16. Iditarod terminus 17. Kind of support 18. Repasts

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19. Notion 20. Like some curves 22. Desk with slanted top 24. Language of Lermontov: abbr. 25. Good ___ 26. Untidy 30. Goodies 34. Dot follower 35. Accumulate 37. Understood

38. Chest bones 40. Pat Sajak and Vanna White’s show, for short* 42. Repeat 43. Asian palm 45. Single 47. Worthless piece of cloth 48. One of the Gorgons 50. Gathering 52. Competitor 54. ___ Paulo 55. Weeping 58. Greeting 62. Prefix with pad 63. Navigation acronym 65. Leg joint 66. Malarial fever 67. Shadow 68. Biol. branch 69. Doctrines 70. Relaxed 71. Moist with dew DOWN 1. Distillery items 2. Singles 3. Dash gauge: abbr. 4. F equivalent 5. Jeopardy! or The Price is Right* 6. Breezed through 7. Big DC lobby 8. Solidifies 9. Acquiesce

10. Clothing made of knitted fabric 11. Protuberance 12. Like a 911 call: abbr. 13. Withdraw gradually 21. Thrust 23. Like some checks: abbr. 25. Situated near the kidneys 26. Go away 27. France’s longest river 28. Fix firmly 29. Island of Hawaii 31. Biting 32. Like some currents 33. Inexpensive cigar 36. Moistens, in a way 39. Hightails it 41. Diminished 44. “Dream on!” 46. Let’s Make a ___* 49. Tear away forcibly 51. Ridiculed 53. Greetings 55. Popular cuisine 56. Lines of thought, for short? 57. Grad 58. Retired baseball player Boggs* 59. A single time 60. Sound of a cat 61. Evasive 64. Dorm VIPs *Starred clues have answers that can be found elsewhere in this issue Solutions to all puzzles are on page 8

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TRIVIA QUIZ Each question below relates to the topic of a feature in this issue of Gist Weekly, but is not answered in it. Answers are on page 8. 1. Game Shows (Page 1): Which game show features such games as Cliff Hangers and Plinko? 2. International Info: Jamaica (Page 4): Which member of Jamaica’s musical Marley family sings the opening theme song to the children’s television series Arthur? 3. This Week’s Celebrity Birthdays (Page 5): Christa Miller plays Jordan Sullivan, the exwife of which Scrubs character? 4. Historical Birthdays This Week (Page 5): Marilyn Monroe did not grow up with that name. What name was she known by as a child? 5. By the Numbers: 26 (Page 6): A marathon is just over 26 miles long. According to legend, the race traces its origins to a messenger’s run to deliver news of the Battle of Marathon to which city?

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Editorial: Running Out of Time By Gist Weekly editor Kane Casolari

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By population, Jamaica is the third largest country in North America with an English-speaking majority (after the U.S. and Canada).

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Jamaica is well known for its contributions to music, including the creation of reggae and ska.

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The name “Jamaica” comes from the island’s native Taíno inhabitants’ name for their island, Xay• maca, which translates to “Land of the Springs” or “Land of Wood and Water.”

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at the 2008 games, with a time of 37.10 seconds. Jamaica has had trouble with crime and violence in recent years. In 2005, it had the highest homicide rate in the world. Though it has fallen somewhat since then (fifth in the world, according to the most recent statistics), it still has about 49 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants— roughly eight times the homicide rate of the United States.

Rastafarianism origiJamaica’s flag nated in Jamaica. Many of its adherents—including the late Bob Marley—wear dreadlocks Some of Jamaica’s most famous and smoke ganja (cannabis/ past and present residents have marijuana) as a spiritual act. been reggae and ska musicians, most notably Bob Marley and Lee • Like Canada, Australia, and New “Scratch” Perry. Several of MarZealand, Jamaica considers the ley’s children, including Damian, monarch of the United Kingdom Stephen, and David (better (currently Queen Elizabeth II) to known by his nickname, “Ziggy”) be its ruler, though in a largely have also become musicians. figurehead role. •

Another famous Jamaican is • Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt, who won three gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and holds the world records for both the 100 meter (9.69 seconds) and 200 meter (19.30 seconds) races. The Jamaican men’s 4 × 100m relay team (of which Bolt was a member) also broke the world record

While it is unusual for a tropical country, Jamaica does have an Olympic bobsled team. The team’s story was fictionalized in the 1993 film Cool Runnings. Though they crashed in their first Olympics in 1988, in 1992 they finished 14th—better than some Winter Olympics powerhouses such as the U.S. and Russia.

MATCH UP Match each Saturday Night Live cast member or guest on the left to a celebrity he has played on SNL’s “Celebrity Jeopardy” skits. (Answers on page 8.)

Will Ferrell

Sean Connery

Darrell Hammond

Burt Reynolds

Tom Hanks

Alex Trebek

Norm Macdonald

Himself

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May 27, 1999: In a tribunal held in The Hague, the Netherlands, the I nte r na ti ona l Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia indicts S l o b o d a n Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity com m i tt ed i n Kosovo. May 28, 1754: In the first battle of the French and Indian War, British troops led by A photo of the 1919 eclipse that helped confirm predictions made by Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Lieutenant Colonel G eorge Washi ngton defeat nine-and-a-half-year diary, conFrench forces at the Battle of Jucluding that he must stop writing monville Glen in Fayette County, due to poor eyesight. Pennsylvania. • June 1, 1974: Dr. Henry Heimlich May 29, 1919: Multiple independdescribes publishes an article in ent observations made during an the journal Emergency Medicine desolar eclipse show that the Sun scribing a method of dislodging deflects light from other stars, food or other objects from a confirming predictions made by choking person’s throat using abAlbert Einstein’s 1915 theory of dominal thrusts—a method now general relativity. called the Heimlich maneuver. May 30, 1989: The 33-foot God• June 2, 2004: Ken Jennings bedess of Democracy statue is revealed gins his record 74-game winning during the Tiananmen Square streak on the popular game show protests. The foam, papierJeopardy! Jennings goes on to win mâché , and metal armature statue just over $3 million before being stands for just five days before defeated by Nancy Zerg. His total being destroyed by members of game show winnings on Jeopardy! the Chinese army. and other game shows give Jennings the record for most May 31, 1669: Samuel Pepys money won on game shows. makes the last entry in his famous

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This Week’s Celebrity Birthdays Author and screenwriter Harlan Ellison (A Boy and His Dog, Star Trek) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 27, 1934 Actress Christa Miller (Scrubs, The Drew Carey Show) . . . . . . . . . May 28, 1964 Actor Rupert Everett (Shrek the Third, My Best Friend’s Wedding) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 29, 1959 Country/Bluegrass singer Wynonna Judd . . . . . . . . . . May 30, 1964 Actor Tom Berenger (October Road, Major League) . . . May 31, 1949 Singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette (“Ironic,” “You Oughta Know”) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J un e 1 , 1 97 4 Actress Leah Cairns (Kyle XY, Battlestar Galactica) . . . . . . . . . . . . June 2, 1974 Clipart: MS

Historic Birthdays This Week Biologist and science writer Rachel Carson, whose Silent Spring helped spark the modern environmental movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 27, 1907 All-around athlete and Olympic gold medalist Jim Thorpe . . . May 28, 1888 Novelist G. K. Chesterton (The Napoleon of Notting Hill, The Man Who Was Thursday) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 29, 1874 Clarinetist and bandleader Benny Goodman, nicknamed “the King of Swing” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .May 30, 1909 Actress Marilyn Monroe (The Seven Year Itch, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 1, 1926 First American first lady Martha Washington . . . . . . . . . June 2, 1731

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Michigan became the 26th U.S. state on January 26, 1837.

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Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States. The 26-letter modern Latin alphabet is used as the alphabet for Dutch, English, French, German, Malay, and Portuguese.

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The first version of string theory, • known as bosonic string theory, predicts 26 dimensions—25 of space and one of time. •

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A standard deck of playing cards without the jokers has 26 red cards and 26 black ones.

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The 26th Amendment to the United State Constitution—the second-most recent amendment to date—lowered the voting age from 21 to 18. •

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A classic Rubik’s Cube has 26 movable cubes around a center, stationary cube. Boxing Day—a holiday celebrated in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and many other former British colonies—is usually on December 26, but may be observed the following Monday if it falls on a weekend. Hall of Fame baseball player Wade Boggs wore the number 26 during his years playing for the Boston Red Sox

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The length of a marathon was • standardized to 26 miles 385 yards long (about 26.2 miles or • 42.2 kilometers) in 1924.

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Game and Quiz Answers —WORD SEARCH— Solution

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—CROSSWORD PUZZLE— Solution

—SCAVENGER HUNT LOCATIONS— A. B. C. D. E. F.

—MATCH UP— Answers Will Ferrell—Alex Trebek Darrell Hammond—Sean Connery Tom Hanks—Himself Norm Macdonald—Burt Reynolds

Page 2 (Crossword clue 16 Across) Page 5 (‘This Week in History”) Page 8 (Metropolis ad) Page 6 (In photo accompanying “By the Numbers”) Page 1 (On Pat Sajak and contestant in photo) Page 4 (IVCH ad)

—TRIVIA QUIZ— Answers 1. The Price Is Right 2. Ziggy Marley 3. Dr. Perry Cox (played by John C. McGinley) 4. Norma Jean Baker 5. Athens, Greece

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