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Tax Day Trivia

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By Kane Casolari

Where does Gist Weekly get its puzzles? Photo: MS

Ask Kane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PAGE 3

Which European town is the origin of the English word “coach”?

Wednesday, April 15 is Tax Day. Once you’ve filed your return, take a break with this Tax Day trivia. •

International Info. . . . . . . . PAGE 4

Who took the throne 500 years ago this week? This Week in History . . . . . PAGE 5

Which legendary actor would be 120 this week? Birthdays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PAGE 5

What presidential “curse” did Reagan narrowly escape? By the Numbers. . . . . . . . . PAGE 6 And more including: Crossword—PAGE 2 Community Events—PAGE 3 Trivia Quiz—PAGE 3 Classifieds—PAGE 4 Sudoku—PAGE 6

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In 1789, Benjamin Franklin wrote what is probably the most-quot ed statement about taxes in history when he said that “in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except 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 paper 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 Company put fake Social Security

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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 Sixteenth Amendment. A famous man once said, “The hardest thing in the world to understand 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 fashions to be more like those of Western Europe.

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cards in the wallets it manufactured to show people that the cards would fit. They used the number 078-051120, the real Social Security number of Hil da S chrader Whitcher, a secretary at the company. Many people mistakenly thought that the Social Security number on the card included in their wallet was their own, and used it on their tax returns.

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Word Search: Tax Day

APRIL 15, 2009

FUN AND GAMES Scavenger Hunt

Find the following words in the grid above. They may be forward, backward, up, down, or diagonal.

Search this issue of Gist Weekly to find the pictures and words listed below. They may be anywhere in the issue, in articles, Image: MS games, or ads. (No, finding them in this box doesn’t count.) Answers are on page 8. Text

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A. Dragons

D. Jump rope

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F. Pizza

Income

Wages

Accountant

IRS

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Money

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Two friends, one French and one American, were jokingly discussing 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 return 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

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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

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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

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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. 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 SpanishAmerican 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 Birthdays (Page 5): Director Edgar Wright (who turns 35 this Saturday) 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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Dear Kane, Where do you get the crosswords, sudokus, and other puzzles and games for Gist Weekly? —Will S. Will,

By Gist Weekly editor Kane Casolari clues are marked with a star in each week’s crossword.) Then it fills in the rest of the crossword with words from the standard dictionary. For the word search, I pick the words (generally related to the front page article) and the size—and sometimes, shape—of the grid, and Crossword Express puts the words in the word search.

I make the puzzles myself, with the help of some computer programs. Since Gist Weekly’s budget is (very) To make the sudoku, all I have to do limited, I only use free programs, is choose the difficulty. I choose the combined with some scripts that I level of difficulty randomly, using a wrote myself to automate some tasks. num ber generator that favors For most puzzles, I use a program medium-difficulty puzzles: sudokus called Crossword Express. It is a free with a difficulty of three stars are program (though donations are most likely, followed by two- and e n c o u r a g e d ) a v a i l a b l e a t four-star puzzles, with one- and fivewww.crauswords.com. The program star difficulties being the least doesn’t do all of the work, but it does common. make constructing, for instance, a The mazes are created using a crossword much easier than it would combination of a custom JavaScript be by hand. I have created several application and the Gnu Image custom dictionaries for Crossword Manipulation Program (the GIMP). Express to draw from, and I make a custom dictionary for each specific For nonograms, I have used a couple issue. The program tries to fit as of different programs. I currently use many the words pertaining to that Japon Cross—that’s not a typo; it issue in the puzzle as possible. (Those really is spelled “Japon,” not “Japan.”

The program works pretty well, but sometimes opens with all the menus in Russian. It’s easy to change the language to English (at least, once you know where that option is on the menu), but it is a little irritating to have to do so. I make the scavenger hunt without help from programs; I just pick out a few pictures and words that only occur once in the issue. For most puzzles, I use CutePDF to save them as PDF files and do some editing with the GIMP to get them looking the way I want them before I put them in the issue. A lot of the process is automated with a script I wrote using AutoHotKey (AHK). All of the programs mentioned in this article are freely available online, so you can download and use them to make your own puzzles if you want. Have a question you would like answered? Email [email protected] or go to www.GistWeekly.com/Contact and editor Kane Casolari may answer your question in a future issue. Mark questions “okay to print.” Questions may be edited for space, clarity, or other considerations.

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Hungary was a Soviet-influenced Communist country (known as the People’s Republic of Hungary) from 1949 to 1989.

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From 1867 until just after the end of World War I Hungary’s flag • H u n g a r y in 1918, Hunjoined the Eurogary was part pean Union along with nine other of the empire of AustriaEastern European and MediterraHungary. nean countries in 2004, making it part of the EU’s largest expansion Hungary’s capital city of Budapest so far. was formed in 1873 from the merging of three cities: Buda, • Hungary has one of the highest Óbuda, and Pest. standards of living in Eastern Europe. The name of the spice paprika, made from ground pepper pods, • Hungarian inventor László Bíró comes from the Hungarian word invented the modern ballpoint papar, meaning “pepper.” pen, presenting it at the Budapest International Fair in 1931. BeHungary has produced many facause of their inventor’s name, mous mathematicians and scienballpoint pens are called “biros” tists, including Edward Teller in the United Kingdom in Austra(“the father of the hydrogen lia. bomb”) and Paul Erdős.

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Hungarian sculptor Ernő Rubik • invented the Rubik’s Cube in 1974. To date, about 350 million Rubik’s Cubes have been sold worldwide.

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The Republic of Hungary is landlocked and surrounded by seven other countries: (starting to the • north and going clockwise) Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Austria.

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The English word “coach” and the Spanish word coche (“car”) come from the Hungarian town of Kocs, which became famous for its horsedrawn vehicles in the 15th century.

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.

MATCH UP In honor of Tax Day (April 15), match these tax- and moneyrelated songs (left) to the artists/bands that originally performed them. (Answers on page 8.)

“If I Had a Million Dollars”

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“Money”

Barrett Strong

“Money for Nothing”

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“Money (That’s What I Want)”

Dire Straits

“Taxman”

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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 Tiananmen Square. The protests eventu• ally grow to include roughly 100,000 people, hundreds of whom (the exact number is unknown) are killed in clashes between the protesters and the soldiers and police sent to disperse the crowd before the protest is broken up after nearly two months on June 4.

April 18, 1924: Simon & Schuster publishes the first book of crossword puzzles, over 10 years after crossword puzzles first appeared in newspapers.

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April 16, 1924: Marcus Loew, founder of Loews Theatres, buys Mayer Pictures. Combined with two companies Loew bought earlier in the year—Metro Pictures Corporation and Goldwyn Pictures—the resulting company becomes Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, or MGM.

April 20, 1999: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 12 students and one teacher and injure 23 other people in a shooting rampage 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 17, 1964: William A. Shea • Muni ci pal S tadi um —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 21, 1509: Following the death of King Henry VII of England, his son, Henry VIII, becomes king. Henry VIII is known to most Americans today for having six wives and for creating the Church of England.

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.)

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Humans generally have 20 deciduous 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 Address, which begins “Four score and seven years ago…” (in other • words, 87 years ago). The twenty-year curse is a legendary 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, respectively—though assassination attempts 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 Tippecanoe”) following the Tecumseh 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 question eliminates half of the potential 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 20sided (icosahedral) dice. The 20th President of the United States was James Garfield. Garfield died after about six months in office, making his the secondshortest presidential term in history, after William Henry Harrison. The 20th wedding anniversary is traditionally the china anniversary.

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APRIL 15, 2009

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Earth Day is Wednesday, April 22. To celebrate, Gist Weekly presents some information about this eco-holiday.

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Are all those “Strange but True” trivia items in other publications and online really true? Gist Weekly puts some of them to the test.

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Where is Area 51 said to be? Find out in Fifty State Fun Facts.

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This Week in History takes a look at the 220th anniversary of a famous mutiny and other events that took place between April 22 and April 28.

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In Birthdays, a Simpsons star turns 45 and a famous writer would be 445.

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By the Numbers features card games, currency, and Clemente in trivia related to the number 21.

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

Look for Issue #21 in one week! All planned upcoming features are tentative and subject to change. Planned publication/delivery date may be delayed due to weather or other circumstances.

Game and Quiz Answers —WORD SEARCH— Solution

—MAZE— Solution

—CROSSWORD PUZZLE— Solution

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

—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

Page 6 (“By the Numbers”) Page 4 (Grosenbach’s Auto Repair ad) Page 3 (“Ask Kane”) Page 7 (AdCouncil PSA) Page 1 (Photo accompanying “Tax Day Trivia”) Page 8 (Hunt Brothers Pizza ad)

—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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—SUDOKU— Solution

—NONOGRAM— Solution