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1. MOVIES: Who is the director of the Oscar-
winning movie “Parasite”?
2. FOOD & DRINK: What is miso?
3. LITERATURE: What are the names of the
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4. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Which city’s
nickname is “Pearl of the Orient”?
5. HISTORY: In what year were the first
modern Olympic Games held?
6. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Before becoming
president, Barack Obama served as a
senator from which state?
7. GEOGRAPHY: Which peninsula is the
largest in the world?
8. MYTHOLOGY: Who is the Greek god of
war?
9. MUSIC: Who composed the opera “The
Ring of Nibelung”?
10. ACRONYMS: In computer emails, what
does the acronym “CC” stand for?
ANSWERS 7. Arabian Peninsula. 8. Ares. 9. Richard Wagner. 10. Carbon Copy (once used in typewriters).

5. 1896 in Greece. 6. Illinois.
4. Manila, Philippines.
3. Heathcliff and Catherine.
2. Fermented soybean paste.
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Besides the VA, the Department of Labor, the titution. One pharmacist was sentenced to 17
Post Office and the IRS were involved. There
were bribes and kickbacks paid by unscrupulous years in prison and will repay $115 million in
pharmacy owners, unnecessary prescriptions restitution. The other pharmacist will serve 15
written by the doctor (an orthopedic surgeon)
FAKE PRESCRIPTIONS SCAM and, of course, thieves don’t pay taxes on their years in prison. Together with his thief phar-
How much would you trust a prescription ill-gotten millions.
cream compound that was whipped up in a back The operation was a well-oiled machine de- macist buddy, they will forfeit $405 million in
room by a bunch of untrained teenagers? Sounds voted to making money. Special prescription
dangerous, and it turned out to be just that by pads were provided to the doctor that referred seized assets.
patients who used the fake cream and ended up patients to a specific pharmacy, and the doctor’s So there is some justice here. TITLE: None
with painful rashes. It was a real moneymaker staff were instructed to write prescriptions for
for some scammers however: Have some kids each patient seen that day, whether or not they of them will be out of prison quickly, and when
mix up $15 worth of ingredients in the back of even needed the compounded cream. One of
a pharmacy, and then charge the government the pharmacists checked several times a day to they are out, their fancy homes and cars won’t be
$16,000 for each prescription. see how much had been billed that day. If out
The VA Office of Inspector General (VAO- of the office, staff would text him the amount of there, and neither will the millions they stashed
IG) was one of a handful of agencies who in- money made. in multiple accounts and shell companies.
vestigated a doctor who was part of this $145 The doctor was sentenced to eight years in
million scam, as well as his pharmacist pals. prison and has to pay back $13 million in res- (c) 2026 King Features Synd., Inc.