TAX - AUDIT
POP CULTURE
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100

This is the deadline for filing individual income tax returns in the United States, unless extended.


What is April 15?

100

This actor slapped Chris Rock on live TV at the 2022 Oscars, shocking audiences worldwide.

Who is Will Smith?

100

The process of spreading investments across different asset classes to reduce risk.

What is diversification?

100

This famous singer nickname was known as “the Boss” this New Jersey native wrote the Oscar‑winning song ‘Streets of Philadelphia’.”

Who was Bruce Springsteen?

100

“Why so serious?” is a line delivered by this iconic villain in a 2008 superhero film.

 Who is The Joker?

200

This form is used to report wages, tips, and other compensation paid to employees.

What is Form W-2?

200

This reality TV show, which premiered in 2007, followed the lives of a Los Angeles family and launched a media empire.

What is Keeping Up with the Kardashians?

200

This account type allows tax-deferred growth and is commonly used to save for retirement in the U.S.

What is an IRA?

200

This rapper and actor starred in Boyz n the Hood and later became a prominent figure in West Coast hip-hop.

Who is Ice Cube?

200

In Creed (2015), Michael B. Jordan plays Adonis Creed, the son of this famous boxer from the Rocky series.

Who is Apollo Creed?

300

This type of tax is levied on goods and services at the point of sale.

What is sales tax?

300

Name the father and son duo that rose to fame in 2024 through social media from their videos at Costco. #bringtheboom

Who is Big Justice and Big Boom AJ?

300

When an investor only reads articles proving that their meme stock is “definitely going to the moon,” they’re not doing research — they’re demonstrating this common behavioral bias.

What is confirmation bias?

300

This artist made history as the only solo singer to have a #1 hit on a U.S. Billboard chart in seven consecutive decades.  Their 1998 album featured the hit title track that popularized Auto-Tune and became her biggest-selling single.  The song was about moving on from heartbreak and finding strength after a failed relationship.

Who is Cher?

300

This Italian actor, known for his fiery temper on screen, won an Oscar for Goodfellas in 1991.  Some other popular movies he featured in consist of My Cousin Vinny and Home Alone.

Who is Joe Pesci?

400

This type of audit provides the highest level of assurance on financial statements.

What is an external audit?

400

This handheld gaming device, released by Nintendo in 1989, became a global phenomenon and came with Tetris.

What is the Game Boy?

400

These accounts allow tax-free growth when funds are used for qualified medical expenses.


What is a Health Savings Account?

400

this super bowl between the Bills vs Cowboys halftime show in 1993 until this year was the most viewed halftime show in NFL history with 133.4 million viewers.  Kendrick Lamar had 133.5 million viewers

Who was Michael Jackson?

400

True Lies (1994), Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a secret agent living a double life. This actress — who won a Golden Globe for her role as his unsuspecting wife — performs a memorable and awkward “spy mission” dance scene.

Who was Jamie Lee Curtis?

500

This type of letter,  is required to be sent by auditors to management and those charged with governance to communicate significant deficiencies or material weaknesses found during an audit. 

What is a 265 communication letter (or internal control deficiency letter)?

500

Every Thanksgiving, families gather around the TV not just for football, but to debate whether this giant New York City tradition is about the floats, the bands, or spotting which celebrity is clearly lip-syncing.

What is the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade?

500

This factor-based model expands on CAPM by adding size and value factors to explain excess portfolio returns.


What is the Fama–French Three-Factor Mode?

500

This pop superstar’s performance of the national anthem at the 1993 Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving Day game became legendary, foreshadowing her reign as the “Queen of Christmas” thanks to her record-breaking holiday album released the following year.


Who is Mariah Carey?

500

This film, which won an Academy Award for Best Original Story, features a courtroom battle over the identity of a department store Santa Claus and has become a Thanksgiving-to-Christmas classic.

What is Miracle on 34th Street?

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