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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

Gist Weekly APRIL 15, 2009

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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MAZE Find your way from the upper-left corner to the lower-right

Scavenger Hunt

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

count.) Answers are on page 8.

FUN AND GAMES

Image: MS

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

ISSUE #20 www.GistWeekly.com

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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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-

ing are asked to use the west alley entrance when coming to the dinner.

Illustrations: MS

By Gist Weekly editor Kane Casolari

Dear Kane,

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—Will S.

Will,

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For most puzzles, I use a program called Crossword Express. It is a free

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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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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


• 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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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


—WORD SEARCH—

Solution

—SUDOKU—

Solution

—MAZE—

Solution

—CROSSWORD PUZZLE—

Solution

—NONOGRAM—

Solution

Game and Quiz Answers

Please recycle this paper or pass it on to a friend when you are done with it.

—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

Next Week

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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