It's Taxing
Original Jeopardy Category: DOUBLE "H"
This tax is removed from the paychecks of salaried workers; how much depends on the number of W-4 exemptions
What is withholding?
Original Jeopardy Category: THE QUOTABLE FRANKLIN
"In the world nothing is certain but" these 2 things
What are Death & Taxes?
Original Jeopardy Category: FINANCIAL MATTERS
This alphanumeric clause of the 1978 Tax Reform Act now enrolls over 40 million Americans
What is 401(k)?
Original Jeopardy Category: THE PATRIOT LEAGUE
1760s political activist James Otis is credited with the phrase "taxation without" this "is tyranny"
What is representation?
Original Jeopardy Category: WHAT, ME HURRY?
In 2009 I filed Form 4868 & got an automatic 6-month extension on my tax return--now it's not due until this date
What is 15-Oct?
Original Jeopardy Category: "FOOL"ISHNESS
It comes exactly 2 weeks before federal income taxes are usually due
What is April Fool's day?
Original Jeopardy Category: SALT
In 1930 this Indian pacifist marched 200 miles to the sea to protest Britain's salt tax
Who was Gandhi?
Original Jeopardy Category:"I" REMEMBER
This tax shelter for later in your life was created in 1974 to assist those without company pension plans
What is an IRA?
Original Jeopardy Category:3-LETTER ABBREV.
For tax purposes, the total amount you earned less deductions: AGI
What is Adjusted gross income?
Original Jeopardy Category: HOPE
Barack Obama's 2008 tax return shows he earned $1.5 million in royalties from this book
What is The Audacity of Hope?
Original Jeopardy Category: NEW TESTAMENT
This Roman emperor sent out a decree "that all the world should be taxed"
Who was Caesar (Augustus)?
Original Jeopardy Category: Bare
Leofric's wife, this Anglo-Saxon woman of the 1000s took a clothing-optional ride to protest taxes
Who is Lady Godiva?
Original Jeopardy Category: 1980
The IRS said the cost of maintaining a cat trained to alert these people to possible dangers is tax deductible
Who are deaf people?
Original Jeopardy Category: AUTO FIRSTS
In 1908 the federal government taxed this for the 1st time
What is Gasoline?
Original Jeopardy Category: BRING YOUR "A" GAME
Give him a beer! This patriot became tax collector of Boston in 1756
Who was Samuel Adams?
Original Jeopardy Category: ANCIENT VIP's
This Hebrew king taxed his people into rebellion, which may not have been too wise
Who was King Solomon?
Original Jeopardy Category: 1980s FADS
Greed was good: Trump taught "The Art of the Deal", & she said, "Only the little people pay taxes"
Who is Leona Helmsley?
Original Jeopardy Category: CELEBRITIES IN THE SLAMMER
Charged with bigamy with Carlo Ponti, she later served time in Italy for tax evasion
Who is Sophia Loren?
Original Jeopardy Category: WE THINK
In July 1846 he spent a night in jail rather than pay a tax; that led to his essay "Civil Disobedience"
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
Original Jeopardy Category: GUINNESS RECORDS
Guinness was bottled in stoneware until 1834, when a tax on this was repealed
What is glass?
Original Jeopardy Category: GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
Created July 24, 1789, it's the main committee in the House that deals with tax bills
What is Ways and Means?
Original Jeopardy Category: 1791
In March, Congress passed an excise tax on this, provoking a rebellion in 1794
What is Whiskey?
Original Jeopardy Category: THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY, MAN
After Judah refused to pay taxes in 602 B.C., this Babylonian king took over the kingdom
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
Original Jeopardy Category: THE BIBLE
Jesus asked this disciple to follow him as he sat in his tax office
Who was Matthew?
Original Jeopardy Category: AUTHORS
In 1594 he took a job as a tax collector in Andalusia
Who is Miguel de Cervantes?