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Thanksgiving Trivia

INSIDE Where was the first skyscraper built? 50 State Fun Facts . . . . . . Page 2

Is that an alligator or a crocodile? Wha t’s t he D i ffer en ce? . . 5

By Kane Casolari Football or parades? Turkey or tofur- • key? Sleep in the next day or shop? While you ponder these and other difficult questions, take a break with Gist Weekly’s Thanksgiving fun facts. •

Why are blue ribbons awarded for first place? By the N um bers . . . . . . . 6

Which famous invasion was planned 65 years ago this Sunday? Thi s Week i n Hi stor y . . . 7

Which American Idol winner turns 30 this week? Cel ebrity Bi rthdays. . . . . . 7 Plus games including: Trivia Quiz— PAGE 2 Crossword— PAGE 3 Scavenger Hunt— PAGE 3 Sudoku— PAGE 6 ...And More!

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Today, football is a Thanksgiving tradition. There has been a Thanksgiving NFL game every year since the NFL was created in 1920, with the exception of 1941–1944 because of World War II. The Detroit Lions have played a home game on Thanksgiving every year since 1934 (except during World War II); the Dallas Cowboys have hosted games on Thanksgiving all but two years since 1966.

Many people know that the story of the first Thanksgiving involves the Wampanoag tribe and the Puritan Pilgrims who came to Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620. Y o u might e v e n k n o w that the feast it• If you’re self took not a football place in fan (or live 1 6 2 1 , with someafter the one who’s P i l grim s not), you The First Thanksgiving by Jean had endured one might watch the Macy’s Leon Gerome Ferris harsh winter. What Thanksgiving Day Pamost people don’t know, howrade instead. The parade has been ever, is that Thanksgiving didn’t held annually since 1924, except become an annual federal holiday from 1942 to 1944 to conserve for over 240 years. President materials needed for the war. The Abraham Lincoln declared the first giant balloon used in the palast Thursday in November as rade—Felix the Cat—debuted in Thanksgiving Day in 1863 and it 1927. has been a federal holiday since. • Not all of the foods eaten at President Franklin Roosevelt, in modern Thanksgiving feasts were order to extend the holiday shopeaten by the Pilgrims and Wamping season during the Deprespanoags, but most of the tradision, moved Thanksgiving to the tional foods—including turkey second-to-last Thursday of Noand stuffing, mashed potatoes vember in 1939. In 1941, Conand gravy, sweet potatoes, corn, gress set Thanksgiving as the cranberry sauce, and pumpkin fourth Thursday of November, pie—are native to the Americas. where it has stayed to this day.

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Thanksgiving Humor On the last school day before Thanksgiving Break, a grade school teacher asked her students to each write down at least one thing that they were thankful for. Most of the students had the standard answers; they were thankful for their mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, cats and dogs, friends, teachers, and extended family, thankful to have a roof over their heads and enough to eat, and thankful for their material possessions such as their favorite toys, movies, and video games. One student, however, simply wrote, “The thing that I am most thankful for this Thanksgiving is that I’m not a turkey.” Two friends were sitting around t a l ki ng t he w ee k be f or e Thanksgiving. The first one said to the second, “Hey, I have an idea. How about we go out and shoot our own turkeys this year?” The second friend said, “No way, not after what happened last year.” “What happened last year?” “Well, I went to shoot a turkey. . .” “And?” “Let’s just say I don’t think I’m welcome at that grocery store anymore.”

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The Gist about Gist Weekly Fifty States Fun Facts:

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Illinois was the 21st state to join to the Union, doing so in 1818.

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Approximately one-fourth of Illinois’s population lives in the city of Chicago, the largest city in the state and the third most populous in the United States. Nearly twothirds of the state’s residents live • in the Chicago metropolitan area.

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Despite Abraham Lincoln being born in Kentucky, Illinois is nicknamed “The Land of Lincoln” because Illinois is where he got his political start. Lincoln served four terms in the Illinois House of Representatives and one term representing Illinois in the U.S. House.

Ronald Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois and attended Eureka College—which just happens to be the alma mater of Gist Weekly’s editor—in Eureka, IL before moving to California to pursue acting and later politics. Illinois is the nation’s leading producer of soybeans, with roughly 500 million bushels produced per year. While corn is Illinois’s biggest crop—with about 2.3 million bushels in 2007—Iowa produces slightly more, beating out Illinois for the number one spot by less than four percent.

Two other past presidents have had ties to Illinois. President Ulysses S. Grant, although born in Ohio, lived in Galena, Illinois between the Mexican-American War and the Civil War. President

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While i t’s probably not the first thing most people think of when they hear “Illinois,” Joliet Lincoln’s poCorrectional Center Illinois’s State Flag litical career in has become someIllinois wasn’t what famous. It was featured in all successful, though—he tried the 1980 film The Blues Brothers unsuccessfully to become a memand—after closing in 2002— ber of first the Illinois General stood in for the fictional Fox Assembly and then the U.S. SenRiver State Penitentiary during ate. He lost the latter race to the first season of the television Stephen Douglas, who would series Prison Break. later be an opponent of Lincoln’s in the 1860 presidential election.

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Chicago was the home to the world’s first skyscraper, the Home Insurance Building. Built in 1885, it would be considered small by today’s skyscraper standards—it was only ten stories high. By comparison, the Sears Tower is 108 stories.

MATCH UP Match the native Illinoisans on the left to their years and places of birth on the right Cindy Crawford

1940, Peoria

Walt Disney

1878, Galesburg

Richard Pryor

1899, Oak Park

Carl Sandburg

1901, Chicago

Ernest Hemingway

1966, De Kalb

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I’m sick of following my dreams, man. I’m just going to ask where they're going and hook up with ’em later.

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This shirt is “dry-clean only,” which means it’s dirty.

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My manager saw me drinking backstage and he said “Mitch, don't use liquor as a crutch.” I can't use liquor as a crutch, because a crutch helps me walk. Liquor severely [messes] up the way I walk. It ain’t like a crutch, it’s like a step I didn’t see.

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THANKSGIVING TRIVIA QUIZ 1. Which character has had the most Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons?

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2. Was Canada’s first Thanksgiving before or after the first one in what is now the United States? 3. Who was the first female character to have a balloon in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade? 4. In what month do Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving? 5. What was the first video game character to have a balloon in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade? 6. What was the name of the ship the Pilgrims took to Plymouth? 7. Who was depicted by the largest balloon ever to appear in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade at over 100 feet long? 8. What is the only Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon said to be “life-sized”?

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By the Numbers: 1 First place Olympians receive gold medals today, but that wasn’t • always the case. Branches and ribbons, not medals, were awarded in BASED ON IMAGE BY MS the ancient Greek Olympics. In the first modern Olympic Games, winners received silver medals and second place got bronze. The second modern Olympics awarded trophies or cups rather than medals. • Gold medals became the standard first place prize in the 1904 Olympics, when the familiar gold, silver, and bronze medals were all used together for the first time. • •

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Blue ribbons are often the first place prize in other types of competitions. This tradition comes from The Blue Riband, which was awarded to passenger ships for holding the fastest transatlantic crossing record starting in the 1860s. The Blue Riband, in turn, • came from the French Cordon Bleu (meaning “blue ribbon”) that was worn by knights of the Order of the Holy Spirit. The Cordon Bleu may have become associated with first-class cooking due to the feasts that the knights held. “One” is a popular name for songs, including Billboard Top 100 hits by U2, Metallica, Three Dog Night, Creed, and the Bee

Gees. Somewhat surprisingly, “One,” was not a number-one hit for any of the above bands. The Beatles compilation album 1 fared better; the 2000 collection of the Fab Four’s 27 number-one songs was the number one album in over 35 countries. It was the fastest-selling album of all time and the 15th best-selling album of all time worldwide. As of this writing, no album since has sold better. One is the only positive real number that is neither prime (having two factors) or composite (having more than two factors). It has only one factor: itself. BBC One is the main television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation. It has created several shows that became hits on both sides of the Atlantic, including Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Doctor Who (both the classic and new series), and Teletubbies. Why doesn’t the U.S. have a broadcast Channel One? The short version is that we did, for a short while. In 1945, however, the FCC decided that TV signals were using up too much of the radio spectrum. It reassigned the portion of the airwaves allotted to Channel One (44 to 50 MHz), assigning it to police and other mobile radios. The remaining channels were never renumbered.

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November 26, 1983: In one of the biggest heists in British history, roughly 6,800 gold bars weighing a total of over 10 tons and worth almost £26 million (about $45 million) are stolen from Heathrow Airport’s Brinks Mat vault. The perpetrators are later caught, but over three tons of the gold is never recovered. November 27, 1868: Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on a Cheyenne village on reservation land in what is now Oklahoma. The Battle of Washita River leaves 21 US Army soldiers dead. Estimates on the number of Cheyenne killed vary widely, ranging from 13 to 150. Among the dead are Cheyenne Chief Black Kettle and his wife, who are shot in the back while attempting to flee. November 28, 1893: Women vote in the New Zealand general election, the first time in history that women have the right to vote • in a national election. November 29, 1877: Inventor Thomas Edison first demonstrates his new invention, the phonograph, an “ancestor” of the • record player. November 30, 1943: During the Tehran Conference, Allied leaders President Franklin D. Roosevelt

This Week’s Celebrity Birthdays Singer Natasha Bedingfield ("Unwritten," "Pocketful of Sunshine") . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . November 26, 1981 Actor Fisher Stevens (Lost, Early Edition) . . . . November 27, 1963 Composer Randy Newman (scores for Cars and the Toy Story films) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . November 28, 1943 Actor Don Cheadle (Ocean's films, Hotel Rwanda) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . November 29, 1964 Singer Clay Aiken . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . November 30, 1978 Comic book writer, artist, and Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Joe Quesada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . December 1, 1962

Thomas Edison with one of his first phonographs, unveiled to the world 121 years ago this Saturday.

of the United States, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom, and Premier Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union agree on plans for an invasion code-named Operation Overlord. The invasion takes place on June 6, 1944 on the beaches of Normandy, France and today is best known as “D-Day.” December 1, 1988: Benazir Bhutto becomes Prime Minister of Pakistan, making her the first female leader of a predominantly Muslim country. December 2, 1908: Pu Yi becomes Emperor of China at the age of two. He is not only one of the youngest emperors in history, but also China’s last emperor.

Actress Lucy Liu (Charlie's Angels films, Ally McBeal) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . December 2, 1968 CLIPART: MS

Historic Birthdays This Week Director and producer Bruce Paltrow (St. Elsewhere, Homicide: Life on the Street) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . November 26, 1943 Guitarist Jimi Hendrix (“Purple Haze,” “All Along the Watchtower”). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . November 27, 1942 Poet and painter William Blake (“The Tyger,” “Jerusalem”). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . November 28, 1757 Author Madeleine L'Engle (A Wrinkle in Time) . . . November 29, 1918 Writer and satirist Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . November 30, 1667 Singer Lou Rawls (“You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine,” “Love Is a Hurtin' Thing”) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . December 1, 1933 Circus owner Charles Ringling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . December 2, 1863

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November 26, 2008

Coming Next Week in Gist Weekly:

Paper or Plastic? Neither!

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The holiday shopping season is here, so Gist Weekly has trivia about famous Malls.

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Find out how to use an online tool to protect yourself from a hard drive failure in the first edition of Best of the ’Net.

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In Birthdays, a rock legend celebrates his 60th birthday and a famous poet turns 400.

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How common are twins? What’s the second-highest mountain? Find out the answers to these questions and more as By the Numbers examines topics related to the number two.

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This Week in History looks at “a date which will live in infamy” and other historical events that took place between December 3 and December 9.

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Where is the United Arab Emirates? What is an “emirate,” anyway? Find out in International Info’s feature on the UAE.

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Bring your own Eco-Bags String Bags made with 100% cotton!

Plus the usual assortment of puzzles and games, including a crossword, sudoku, scavenger hunt, and more.

Look for Issue #2 on December 3, or get it delivered to your email by going to www.gistweekly.com/subscribe!

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Available in four colors:Natural, Red, Green, and Mango Only $5.00 each with free shipping while supplies last. Call Jamie at (815) 368-3283. No calls after 8:00pm please.

All planned upcoming features are tentative and subject to change.

Game and Quiz Answers —CROSSWORD PUZZLE— Solution

—TRIVIA QUIZ— Answers 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

—WORD SEARCH— Solution

Cindy Crawford—1966, De Kalb Walt Disney—1901, Chicago Richard Pryor—1940, Peoria Carl Sandburg—1878, Galesburg Ernest Hemingway—1899, Oak Park

Snoopy Before (1578) Olive Oyl in 1982 October Sonic the Hedgehog in 1993 The Mayflower Superman Clifford the Big Red Dog

—MAZE— Solution

—MATCH UP— Answers

—NONOGRAM— Solution

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

—SUDOKU— Solution