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APRIL 8, 2009 A Free Paper of Trivia, Humor, Puzzles, and More ISSUE #19

INSIDE Easter Trivia

Who became president By Kane Casolari
by one electoral vote?
Presidential Trivia . . . . . PAGE 3
Easter is Sunday, April 12. To cele-
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• You’ve probably noticed that
Since chickens kept laying eggs, it can be!
Easter isn’t on the same date
something had to be done with all
Which sports record every year—or even in the same
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was broken 35 years

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month. Easter
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is always on a
This Week in History . . . PAGE 5 longer; they could you would like to see in this
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women the right to vote? The survey is only 10
By the Numbers . . . . . . . PAGE 6 Easter is on the of the United States
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first Sunday traditionally holds
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Plus games including: full moon of on the White questions as you like, so it
Crossword— PAGE 2 spring. House lawn on takes only a few minutes to
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The Egg Roll is a
Sudoku— PAGE 6 “Easter” comes A decorative egg from the 1998 White
race; children push
...And More! from Ēostre, an House Easter Egg Roll
an egg with a long
Anglo-Saxon
spoon or stick. President Ruther-
goddess of spring. The Anglo-
ford B. Hayes and his wife Lucy
Saxons celebrated a holiday in
started the tradition of annual egg
honor of Ēostre on the vernal
rolls in 1878.
(spring) equinox.
• The famous Fabergé eggs are
• The celebration of Ēostre also
made of precious metals and
gives us some of our Easter tradi-
gems. They were originally Easter
tions, including the holiday’s as-
gifts for the Russian royal family
sociation with bunnies and eggs,
from jeweler Carl Fabergé starting
both of which are fertility sym-
in 1885.
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CROSSWORD 40. Bedouin 10. The Da Vinci Code author*

42. Homerun hitter Hank* 11. Olive genus
44. Bright star 12. Group or band
45. ___ Lama 13. “Sprechen ___ Deutsch?”
47. Comedienne Silverman* 21. Beasts of burden
49. Annoy by persistent faultfinding
23. Lines of thought, for short?
50. Thick slices 27. Using
51. In ___ way 28. Much may follow it
53. Pound sounds 30. Great age
57. Iranian money 31. Molten rock
61. Seriously 32. Male deer
63. Coin 33. Physics units
64. Thousand 34. Asia’s ___ Sea
65. Actress and singer Mandy* 35. Festive occasion
67. Scrutinize 37. ___ la la
68. Chinese leader? 38. Israeli round dance
69. Tolerate 41. Infancy
70. Sicilian volcano 43. Arrest
71. Colored 46. “Aha!”
72. Go over 48. Musical instrument
73. Aspiring atty.’s exam 52. Fuel oil
54. Truman’s Missouri birthplace
DOWN 55. Examine thoroughly
1. Actor Martin of The West Wing* 56. Zeno follower
ACROSS 19. Hawaiian goose
2.Colonial statesman who said, 58. Bank holdings: abbr.
1. Actor John of Lois and Clark and 20. Before this time
“Give me liberty or give me 59. Woody vines
Mutant X* 22. Feed bag
death!”* 60. Foreign assembly
5. The Old Man of the Mountain, 24. A Verizon predecessor
3. Consumed 61. ___ Tim*
formerly* 25. ___ Majesty’s Secret Service
4. Made up (for) 62. Kind of shoppe
10. Canines 26. Hindu mother goddess
5. Ship’s company 63. Ooze
14. Warmth 29. Scores
6. Apollo vehicle 64. Young goat
15. Occur again 33. Worthless piece of cloth
7. Prefix meaning “likeness” 66. Food stat.
16. Jai ___ 36. New Hampshire, in terms of
8. Sleep on it
17. Inner: Prefix statehood* *Starred clues have answers that can be
9. Newly made found elsewhere in this issue
18. Show emotion 39. Hard work Solutions to all puzzles are on page 8
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TRIVIA QUIZ
Each question below relates to the
Presidential Trivia:
topic of a feature in this issue of
Gist Weekly, but is not answered in
Rutherford B. Hayes
it. Answers are on page 8. • Rutherford Birchard Hayes was ments to allow only whites to
1. Easter Trivia (Page 1): What the 19th President of the United vote. Many such laws remained in
marshmallow candy is, accord- States. His term lasted from 1877 effect into the 1960s. These dis-
ing to its manufacturer, the best- to 1881. criminatory laws went against
selling brand of non-chocolate Hayes’s views; during his career as
• Hayes was elected by the narrow-
Easter candy? governor he had tried to amend
est margin in presidential election
the state constitution to give peo-
2. Presidential Trivia: Ruther- history. His opponent, Samuel
ple of all races the right to vote.
ford B. Hayes (Page 3): Be- Tilden, won the popular vote, but
fore becoming president, Hayes the electoral votes of three Hayes was a man of few—if
Photos: WC/PD (Hayes, Presidential Seal),, MS (Girl)

•
was a Brigadier General during states—Florida, Louisiana, and any—vices. He never smoked,
which war? South Carolina—were in dispute. gambled, or drank alcohol. His
3. Fifty State Fun Facts: New wife, Lucy, was similarly inclined,
• An Electoral Commission was
Hampshire (Page 4): Which earni ng her the ni cknam e
formed by Congress to determine
state is sometimes considered “Lemonade Lucy” for her refusal
who should receive the contested ning each of those elections by
New Hampshire’s “twin” due to to serve alcohol in the White
votes. The Commission—made less than one percent.
its proximity to New Hampshire House. Lucy Hayes also started
up of eight Republicans and seven
and similar—but rotated— • Hayes helped heal some of the the annual Easter egg roll on the
Democrats—voted along party
shape? Civil War’s wounds by removing White House lawn that continues
lines, giving all of the disputed
federal troops that had been in to this day, as detailed on page
4. This Week’s Celebrity Birth- electoral votes to the Republican
the South for over a decade. This one.
days (Page 5): Actress Tricia candidate, Hayes. Hayes won the
officially ended the period of Re-
Helfer turns 35 this week. On election by just one electoral vote, • During his 1876 campaign, Hayes
construction.
Battlestar Galactica, her character with 185 to Tilden’s 184. pledged that he wouldn’t run for a
(Number Six) belonged to what • When he withdrew troops, Hayes second term. He kept that pledge
• The presidential election was not
race of mechanical humanoids? also promised that he wouldn’t and retired from politics when his
the first that Hayes won by a nar-
5. By the Numbers: 19 (Page 6): interfere with Southern elections. first term ended. He served on
row margin. Before running for
In the 2002 film K-19: The Wid- Unfortunately, less federal in- Ohio State University’s Board of
president he had served three
owmaker, what was K-19? volvement in the South made it Trustees until his death of a heart
terms as Ohio’s governor, win-
easier for state and local govern- attack in 1893.

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New Hampshire

• New Hampshire was the first col- native. New Hampshire was also
ony in the Americas to declare its the birthplace of the first civilian
independence from the Kingdom chosen to go into space, Christa
of Great Britain, doing so in McAuliffe, who died in the Space
January of 1776. Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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coming up? comes from Revolutionary War

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• New Hampshire was the ninth
state to ratify the Constitution.
New Hampshire’s ratification
gave the Constitution the re-
quired number of states’ approval
for the new government to go
into effect.
• The state of New Hampshire is
the only one in the U.S. not to
have either a general state sales
tax or a state income tax.
• New Hampshire has been the
birthplace of one U.S. president,
Franklin Pierce. It was also the
home state of at least one fic-
tional president, Josiah Bartlet of
The West Wing (played by Martin
Sheen).
• Alan Shepard, the first American
in space, was a New Hampshire
other famous people, including
The Da Vinci Code
a u t hor Dan
Brown, Saturday
Night Live star Seth
Myers, Olympic
skier Bode Miller,
s i ng er /a c tr e ss
Mandy Moore,
and comedienne
Sarah Silverman.
• New Hampshire gets its name
from the county of Hampshire in
England.
• The first free public library in the
United States was established in
Dublin, New Hampshire in 1822.
• New Hampshire plays an impor-
tant role in the presidential prima-
ries as the first state to hold its
primary each election year.
• One of New Hampshire’s most
famous landmarks was the “Old
Man of the Mountain,” a granite
cliff resembling the profile of a
face. The Old Man of the Moun-
tain is pictured on the New
Hampshire state quarter. It col-
lapsed in 2003.
• New Hampshire leads the nation
in per capita alcohol sales.

MATCH UP
Franklin Pierce was the only president born in New
Hampshire. Each of these other presidents were also the only
ones born in their respective states. Match them to the states
where they were born.
(Answers on page 8.)

Abraham Lincoln California

Herbert Hoover Illinois

Richard Nixon Iowa

Ronald Reagan Kentucky

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This Week in History This Week’s

• April 8, 1974: Hank Aaron hits
his 715th career home run, break-
ing Babe Ruth’s record of 714.
Aaron finishes his career with a
total of 755 home runs, a record
that stands until 2007, when it is
broken by Barry Bonds.
• April 9, 1959: NASA announces
The Mercury Seven, introduced to the public
the selection of its first group of
astronauts for its Mercury pro-
gram. The group, dubbed “the
Mercury Seven,” is comprised of • April 12, 1934: A wind gust of
Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper,
John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wal-
ter Schirra, Alan Shepard, and
Deke Slayton.
• April 10, 1874: The first Arbor
Day is observed with a celebra- • April 13, 1974: Westar 1, the first
tion organized by Julius Sterling
Morton in Nebraska City, Ne-
braska. Due to his political and
agricultural activities, Morton
later becomes Secretary of Agri-
culture under President Grover
Cleveland.
• April 14, 1894: In New York City,
• April 11, 1899: The peace treaty
between the United States and
Spain comes into effect following
the Spanish-American War. The
treaty gives the U.S. control of
Guam, the Philippines, and
50 years ago this Thursday
Puerto Rico.
231 miles per hour is observed on
Mount Washington in New
Hampshire. It is the highest sur-
face wind speed ever officially
recorded in the world.
American commercial geosyn-
chronous communications satel-
lite, goes into space. It is launched
by Western Union and NASA
after being built by Hughes Air-
craft Company.
the Holland Brothers open the
first commercial motion picture
house to the public. It uses the
Kinetoscope, a precursor to the
video camera invented by Tho-
mas Edison.
Celebrity
Birthdays
Former child actor Taran Noah Smith, best known as Mark on Home
Improvement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 8, 1984
Actor Dennis Quaid (Yours, Mine, and Ours; The Rookie) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 9, 1954
Singer and actress Mandy Moore (Racing Stripes, Saved!) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 10, 1984
Actress Tricia Helfer (Battlestar Galactica, Burn Notice) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 11, 1974
Actress Jennifer Morrison (House, Urban Legends: Final Cut) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 12, 1979
Author and columnist Christopher Hitchens . . . . . . . . . April 13, 1949
Actor John Shea (Mutant X, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman) . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 14, 1949
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Birthdays This
Week
Neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing, nicknamed “the father of modern
neurosurgery” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 8, 1869
Turkic conqueror Tamerlane (aka Timur) . . . . . . . . . . April 9, 1336
Ruler of Florence Cosimo de’ Medici, the start of the Medici dynasty . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 10, 1389
Film director Howard W. Koch (Ghost, The Manchurian Candidate) . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 11, 1916
Musician Tiny Tim (“Tiptoe Through the Tulips”) . . . . April 12, 1932
Writer Eudora Welty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 13, 1909
Helen Keller’s teacher Anne Sullivan Macy (aka Annie Sullivan) . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 14, 1866

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