Roman Numerals Make Words

1. This is the fourteenth, not the eleventh, letter of the Greek alphabet. 2. According to Freud, this inaccessible part of our personality goes by the pleasure principle, so if we were all guided solely by it, we’d all be criminals to the 499th power. 3. Hollywood’s first cowboy star appeared in 282, not 1009, silent Westerns and paved the way for people like John Wayne. But unlike Wayne, this actually was his real surname, and the town in which he was born. 4. This military fort, officially named for a prominent veteran of both the Civil War and the US Senate, has a couple of times been the object of failed terrorist plots. Today it’s a training camp for the Army Reserves and the National Guard, and houses more than 509 families. 5. In 1988, this company was founded as the American Mobile Satellite Corporation. About 990 weeks later, and subsequent to an FCC investigation to ensure it wasn’t a monopoly, the company merged with its biggest rival. 6. Her Playboy model, Studio 54 disco queen mom gave her this first name and Todd Rundgren’s last name. But at age 8, she met her real dad and later took his surname. 7. A tax assessor knows that if this rate is 10 and your car is valued at $1049, then you owe the town $10.49 in car taxes.