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APRIL 15, 2009 ISSUE #20 A Free Paper of Trivia, Humor, Puzzles, and More
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Tax Day Trivia By Kane Casolari
Wednesday, April 15 is Tax Day. Once you’ve filed your return, take a
break with this Tax Day trivia.
• In 1789, Benja-min Franklin
wrote what is probably the mos t - quot ed
statement about taxes in history
when he said that “in this world nothing
can be said to be certain, ex-
cept death and taxes.”
• E-filing your taxes has become
more popular in recent years. It is not only faster, but apparently more accurate, too. According to
the IRS, about 21 percent of pa-per returns have errors, compared
to only about half of a percent of e-filed returns.
• In 2003, the IRS issued refunds
to about 78% of individuals who filed tax returns. Don’t get too excited though; a refund just
means that you paid too much before and are entitled to get it
back.
• Over 40,000 people have used the same Social Security number on
their taxes. That’s because in 1938—just three years after the Social Security Act was signed
into law—the E. H. Ferree Com-pany put fake Social Security
cards in the wallets it manufac-tured to show people that the
cards would fit. They used the number 078-05-1120, the real Social
Security number of Hilda Schrader
Whitcher, a secre-tary at the com-pany. Many people
mistakenly thought that the Social Se-
curity number on the card included in their wallet was
their own, and used it on their tax re-
turns.
• The first income tax in the U.S. was enacted in 1862 to finance
the Civil War. The U.S. began having a permanent income tax in 1913, after the passage of the Six-
teenth Amendment.
• A famous man once said, “The hardest thing in the world to un-
derstand is the income tax.” Who said it? Albert Einstein.
• In the early 1700s, Tsar Peter I of
Russia—also known as Peter the Great—enacted a “beard tax,”
hoping to change Russian fash-ions to be more like those of Western Europe.
• Will Rogers once quipped, “Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing and
that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.”
Photo: MS
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Find the following words in the grid above. They may be forward,
backward, up, down, or diagonal.
ACROSS
1. Actor Seth of Fanboys*
6. Hip bones 10. Nashville-based awards org.
13. Certain Arab
14. Narcotics agent 15. Auto import
16. Dancing done as an exercise
18. ___ Major (constellation) 19. Chang’s Siamese twin
20. Burden
21. Edit
23. Adherents 24. Letter-shaped girder
25. Just so
28. Feebleness 31. Living in a city
32. Milk dispensers
33. Driver’s need: abbr. 34. High school subj.
35. Put off, as a motion 36. Limousine
37. Atmosphere: Prefix
38. Jazz instruments 39. Sharp-edged instrument
40. More sinuous
42. Pertaining to Nicaea 43. Highlanders
44. Soliloquy start
45. Passes over 47. Sharp bristle
48. Photo
51. Prefix for small 52. National loyalty
55. Former Russian ruler
56. “The jig ___!” 57. Put the kibosh on
58. NL Central team: abbr.
59. “Untouchable” Eliot* 60. More cunning
DOWN
1. Part of verb to ride
2. Arab League member
3. Group or band 4. abbr. at the bottom of a letter
5. Kind of rating
6. Ancient Peruvians 7. Put down
8. Tax agcy.*
9. Make sour 10. Convert into caramel
11. Gender abbr.
12. Blind as ___ 15. Arab League member
17. Routine
22. Fun house sounds 23. Emphatic type: abbr.
24. Makes well
25. Big brass 26. Bay window
27. Native
28. Economist who wrote The
Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of
Capitalism*
29. ___ & Schuster* 30. Group of twenty*
32. They are due April 15*
35. Sudden collapse into failure 36. Ornamental fabric
38. ___-Ball
39. Streamers 41. Lowest point
42. Me neither
44. Infield protectors 45. CPR pros
46. Catalog
47. Air conditioner capacity, for short
48. Sprite
49. “Aha!” 50. USN rank
53. Enzyme ending
54. Up to, in ads
*Starred clues have answers that can be found elsewhere in this issue
Solutions to all puzzles are on page 8
Accountant
Audit
Deduction
Forms
Income
IRS
Money
Return
Taxes
Wages
CROSSWORD
Word Search: Tax Day
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Search this issue of Gist Weekly
to find the pictures and words
listed below. They may be
anywhere in the issue, in articles,
games, or ads. (No, finding them in this box doesn’t
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FUN AND GAMES
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Text
A. Dragons
B. Exhaust
C. Japan
Images
D. Jump rope
E. Pen
F. Pizza
Two friends, one French and one American, were jokingly discuss-
ing their countries’ flags.
The French friend said, “The colors on our flag represent our
taxes: blue for how they make us feel, white for the color we turn when we get our bill, and red for
the color of our faces when we talk about our taxes.”
“Ours is the same,” said the
American. “But we see stars, too.”
“The IRS sent back my tax re-turn saying I owed $800. I said,
‘If you’ll notice, I sent a paper clip with my return. Given what you’ve been paying for things
lately, that should more than make up the difference.’ ”
—Emo Philips
“It’s income tax time again,
Americans: time to gather up those receipts, get out those tax forms, sharpen up that pencil,
and stab yourself in the aorta.” —Dave Barry
Tax Jokes
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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. Tax Day Trivia (Page 1):
Which now-common household items did the U.S. government
first tax as luxuries in 1898 to
help pay for the Spanish-
American War?
2. International Info: Hungary
(Page 4): Ehrich Weiss was
born in Budapest, Hungary in
1874. He later became famous
under what stage name?
3. This Week in History (Page
5): MGM was formed 85 years
ago this Thursday. What is the
name of MGM’s lion mascot?
4. This Week’s Celebrity Birth-
days (Page 5): Director Edgar
Wright (who turns 35 this Satur-
day) is best known for his work
with which two actors?
5. By the Numbers: 20 (Page 6):
Which band with “Twenty” in the name features lead singer
and songwriter Rob Thomas?
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Canal Boat Launches April 17 The LaSalle Canal Boat Volunteer will have its first trip of the season on Fri-day, April 17. From the canal boat website (www.lasallecanalboat.org):
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Spring Valley Church to Hold Spaghetti
Dinner on April 19 The Spring Valley United Church of Christ will host its 25th annual spaghetti dinner in the church hall on Sunday, April 19th.
The menu will consist of “all-you-can-eat” spaghetti, salad, bread, butter, as-
sorted homemade desserts and beverage. The donation for the meal is $6.00. A child’s portion for children under age 6 is $3.00. Carry out orders are avail-able.
Tickets are available from church members or at the door. Serving will be from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. Carry-outs are available at no additional charge.
The church is located at the corner of Erie and Power streets. Those attend-
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Illustrations: MS
By Gist Weekly editor Kane Casolari
Dear Kane,
Where do you get the crosswords, sudokus,
and other puzzles and games for Gist Weekly?
—Will S.
Will,
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I make the scavenger hunt without help from programs; I just pick out a few pictures and words that only
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MATCH UP
In honor of Tax Day (April 15), match these tax- and money-related songs (left) to the artists/bands that originally
performed them. (Answers on page 8.)
“If I Had a Million Dollars” The Beatles
“Money for Nothing” Bare Naked Ladies
“Money (That’s What I Want)” Dire Straits
“Taxman” Pink Floyd
“Money” Barrett Strong
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• The Republic of Hungary is land-locked and surrounded by seven
other countries: (starting to the north and going clockwise) Slova-kia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia,
Croatia, Slovenia, and Austria.
• Hungarian sculptor Ernő Rubik
invented the Rubik’s Cube in
1974. To date, about 350 million Rubik’s Cubes have been sold
worldwide.
• From 1867 until just after
the end of World War I
in 1918, Hun-gary was part of the empire of Austria-
Hungary.
• Hungary’s capital city of Budapest was formed in 1873 from the
merging of three cities: Buda, Óbuda, and Pest.
• The name of the spice paprika,
made from ground pepper pods, comes from the Hungarian word
papar, meaning “pepper.”
• Hungary has produced many fa-mous mathematicians and scien-
tists, including Edward Teller (“the father of the hydrogen
bomb”) and Paul Erdős.
• Goulash is a traditional Hungar-
ian stew, usually made with meat, various vegetables, and spices in-
cluding paprika. The name comes from the word gulyás, referring to
the cattle herders who originated the dish.
• Hungary was a Soviet-influenced
Communist country (known as the People’s Republic of Hun-
gary) from 1949 to 1989.
• The English word “coach” and the Spanish word coche (“car”)
come from the Hungarian town of Kocs, which
became famous for its horse-
drawn vehicles in the 15th century.
• H u n g a r y
joined the Euro-pean Union along with nine other Eastern European and Mediterra-
nean countries in 2004, making it part of the EU’s largest expansion
so far.
• Hungary has one of the highest standards of living in Eastern
Europe.
• Hungarian inventor László Bíró invented the modern ballpoint
pen, presenting it at the Budapest International Fair in 1931. Be-cause of their inventor’s name,
ballpoint pens are called “biros” in the United Kingdom in Austra-
lia.
• Hungary has had a tradition of spas for thousands of years. The
country is home to about 1,500 hot springs that have been used as natural hot tubs for millennia.
Hungary’s flag
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• April 15, 1924: Following the death of Hu Yaobang—a political
leader who supported reform—mourners and protesters begin to gather in Beijing, China’s Tianan-
men Square. The protests eventu-ally grow to include roughly
100,000 people, hundreds of whom (the exact number is un-known) are killed in clashes be-
tween the protesters and the sol-diers and police sent to disperse
the crowd before the protest is broken up after nearly two months on June 4.
• April 16, 1924: Marcus Loew, founder of Loews Theatres, buys
Mayer Pictures. Combined with two companies Loew bought ear-
lier in the year—Metro Pictures Corporation and Goldwyn Pic-tures—the resulting company be-
comes Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, or MGM.
• April 17, 1964: William A. Shea Municipal S tadium—bette r
known as Shea Stadium—opens in Queens, New York. The day’s game ends with the Pittsburgh
Pirates beating the New York Mets 4-3.
• April 18, 1924: Simon & Schuster publishes the first book of cross-
word puzzles, over 10 years after crossword puzzles first appeared in newspapers.
• April 19, 1999: The German Bundestag (parliament) returns to Berlin for the first time since the
country’s split into East and West Germany in 1949. (Germany was
reunited in 1990, but the Bundestag continued to meet in the former West German capital
of Bonn for several years.)
• April 20, 1999: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 12 students
and one teacher and injure 23 other people in a shooting ram-
page at Columbine High School near Littleton, Colorado, before turning their guns on themselves.
The shooting is the deadliest mass murder at an American high
school in history.
• April 21, 1509: Following the death of King Henry VII of Eng-
land, his son, Henry VIII, be-comes king. Henry VIII is known to most Americans today for hav-
ing six wives and for creating the Church of England.
This Week’s Celebrity Birthdays
Historic Birthdays This
Week
This Week in History
Blues singer Bessie Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 15, 1894
Actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin (Modern Times, The Great Dictator) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 16, 1889
Premier of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev . . . . . . April 17, 1894
Politician Henry Hyde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 18, 1924
Lawman Eliot Ness, leader of “The Untouchables” . . . . April 19, 1903
Singer Luther Vandross (“Power of Love/Love Power,” “Endless Love” [with Mariah Carey]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 20, 1951
Economist and sociologist Max Weber (The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 21, 1864
Actor and writer Seth Rogen (Fanboys; Freaks and Geeks) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 15, 1982
Actor Jon Cryer (Two and a Half Men, Pretty in Pink) . . . . . . . . . April 16, 1965
Singer Victoria Beckham, known as “Posh Spice” of the Spice Girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 17, 1974
Director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Spaced) . . . . . . . . . . . April 18, 1974
Actress Kate Hudson (Bride Wars, Almost Famous) . . . . . . . . . . April 19, 1979
Actor Andy Serkis (Inkheart, The Lord of the Rings films) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 20, 1964
Actor James McAvoy (Wanted, The Last King of Scotland) . . . . . . April 21, 1979 Clipart: MS
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Oglesby
Papa John’s 930 Shooting Park Rd.
Peru
Pennzoil 10-Minute Oil Change Center
4239 Venture Dr. Peru
The “New” Pine Cone 206 LaSalle Rd.
LaSalle
Quad City Prosthetics 2200 Marquette Rd.
#112 Peru
Quiznos 5255 State Rt. 251 #11
Peru
The Root Beer Stand 225 Columbia Ave.
Oglesby
Salon Patrice 1525 Peoria St.
Peru
Shear Wizards 2007 4th St.
Peru
Smitty’s Service Station 756 Crosat St.
LaSalle
Sparkle Cleaners 225 E. Walnut St.
Oglesby
Steak ‘n Shake 4240 Venture Dr.
Peru
Tiki Motel Rts. 80 & 51st
LaSalle
Waldorf Hair Co. 2129 4th St.
Peru
William White, DDS 225 Gooding St
LaSalle
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• Twenty is the atomic number of calcium.
• A visual acuity of 20/20 is con-
sidered “normal” vision. It means that the person is able to read
from 20 feet away something that a person with normal visual acuity can read from that distance. Hav-
ing 20/20 vision is not “perfect” vision—it is possible to have bet-
ter eyesight than that. Visual acu-ity numbers are usually expressed as 20 over a number, with lower
denominators corresponding to better vision: 20/40 vision is half
as good as 20/20 and 20/10 vi-sion would be twice as good as normal visual acuity.
• Humans generally have 20 de-ciduous teeth—more commonly called “baby teeth”—that fall out
in childhood and are replaced by 32 permanent teeth.
• Another name for a group of
twenty is a “score.” While the word has fallen out of use, it is
still remembered as part of Abra-ham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Ad-dress, which begins “Four score
and seven years ago…” (in other words, 87 years ago).
• The twenty-year curse is a legen-
dary curse dooming presidents to die if they are elected in a year
divisible by 20. From 1840 to 1960, each president who won an election in a year ending in zero
(which happens every 20 years) died in office, from Abraham
Lincoln to John F. Kennedy. The curse was broken by Ronald
Reagan and George W. Bush—elected in 1980 and 2000, respec-tively—though assassination at-
tempts were made on both. The curse is also known as the Curse
of Tippecanoe or Tecumseh’s Curse in reference to a supposed hex placed on William Henry
Harrison (nicknamed “Old Tip-pecanoe”) following the Tecum-
seh War, said to doom future presidents.
• In the game 20 Questions, players
ask up to 20 yes/no question to attempt to deduce what item one person has chosen. If each ques-
tion eliminates half of the poten-tial answers, the questions can
distinguish between 1,048,576
(220) items.
• People with normal hearing can detect sounds ranging from about
20 Hertz (Hz) to roughly 20,000 Hz.
• Dungeons & Dragons and some
other roleplaying games use 20-sided (icosahedral) dice.
• The 20th President of the United
States was James Garfield. Gar-field died after about six months in office, making his the second-
shortest presidential term in his-tory, after William Henry Harri-
son.
• The 20th wedding anniversary is traditionally the china anniversary.
By the Numbers: 20
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—SCAVENGER HUNT LOCATIONS—
A. Page 6 (“By the Numbers”) B. Page 4 (Grosenbach’s Auto Repair ad)
C. Page 3 (“Ask Kane”)
D. Page 7 (AdCouncil PSA)
E. Page 1 (Photo accompanying “Tax Day Trivia”)
F. Page 8 (Hunt Brothers Pizza ad)
—MATCH UP— Answers
“If I Had a Million Dollars”—Bare Naked Ladies
“Money”—Pink Floyd “Money for Nothing”—Dire Straits “Money (That’s What I Want)”—
Barrett Strong (The Beatles also performed this song, but Strong was the original artist)
“Taxman”—The Beatles
—TRIVIA QUIZ—
Answers
1. Telephones
2. Harry Houdini
3. Leo the Lion
4. Simon Pegg and Nick
Frost
5. Matchbox Twenty
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in Gist Weekly: • Earth Day is Wednesday, April 22. To celebrate, Gist Weekly
presents some information about this eco-holiday.
• Are all those “Strange but True” trivia items in other publications and online really true? Gist Weekly puts some of them to the test.
• Where is Area 51 said to be? Find out in Fifty State Fun
Facts.
• This Week in History takes a look at the 220th anniver-sary of a famous mutiny and other events that took place between April 22 and April 28.
• In Birthdays, a Simpsons star turns 45 and a famous writer would be 445.
• By the Numbers features card games, currency, and Clemente in trivia related to the number 21.
• Plus the usual assortment of puzzles and games, including a crossword, sudoku, scavenger hunt, and more.
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