The Money Quiz

• kuanes
  April 3rd, 2008 at 11:47 am

  11/12

  did you miss the $1000?

  that’s the only one i couldn’t remember. darn.

• JoBo S
  April 3rd, 2008 at 11:48 am

  9 out of 12!

• JoBo S
  April 3rd, 2008 at 11:48 am

  Guess I need to start paying attention to those faces…

• NeonCat
  April 3rd, 2008 at 12:16 pm

  100%! Woo-hoo!

• luke
  April 3rd, 2008 at 12:40 pm

  I only got 58% Once you get past 5 dollars I don’t see many of those bills

• probinu
  April 3rd, 2008 at 12:49 pm

  I have a picture of a golf ball on my credit card, this thing cash you speak of. I have not seen much of it.

• Miss Cellania
  April 3rd, 2008 at 1:01 pm

  kaunes, yes, that was the one I missed!

• Sofar
  April 3rd, 2008 at 2:18 pm

  I can’t believe we used to have a one-hundred-thousand-dollar bill. And that it had Woodrow Wilson on it. I did remember who was on the two-dollar bill, though. And I remember what’s on the back, the signing of the Declaration of Independence. I get a lot of them in my cash register at work for some reason, so I take them out and spend them for the sake of novelty. I also get a lot of half dollars.

  Interesting fact: The one-hundred-thousand-dollar bill was a gold certificate rather than a silver certificate, and was red on the back rather than green. Nothing was on the back but a stylized number 100,000 and the usual fancy engraving, such that I notice has all but disappeared from modern notes.

• Caitlin
  April 3rd, 2008 at 2:26 pm

  nine out of twelve

• su.wei
  April 3rd, 2008 at 2:59 pm

  you’d think i’d know more of em, considering how much i like money haha

• Xayzer
  April 3rd, 2008 at 3:32 pm

  Even though I’m not american, never been to the states and haven’t used US bills (or coins) other than the 50 and 100 I got 10 correct answers (By guessing on two of them). That’s pretty good if I can say so myself

• Thespian24601
  April 3rd, 2008 at 3:57 pm

  I got ten out of twelve. Wow, those last ones really were hard. I couldn’t remember the last two for the life of me. I may have seen a picture of them once before in my lifetime.

• ted
  April 3rd, 2008 at 4:08 pm

  58%. Not completely awful for a foreigner.

• NeonCat
  April 3rd, 2008 at 4:15 pm

  The Wilson $100k was never released to the public, it was only used to facilitate exchanges between branches of the Federal Reserve.

• Sofar
  April 3rd, 2008 at 5:04 pm

  Since the thirties it’s all been done by wire, though.

• empty-minded
  April 3rd, 2008 at 5:06 pm

  I think the Federal Reserve should bail me out of my ignorance by throwing copious amounts of money at me in a desperate attempt to get me to learn my dead presidents (and other persons of high importance).

• xander
  April 3rd, 2008 at 6:11 pm

  I got all 12 and the bonus!

• xander
  April 3rd, 2008 at 6:12 pm

  did Alex say he’d only not seen one of those before! I doubt ive ever seen a 50 in real life.

• Miss Cellania
  April 3rd, 2008 at 6:54 pm

  No, that was me. I said I only MISSED one question, and it was because I’d never seen the $1000 bill. I haven’t seen the other high bills, either, but I guessed them right. You can see them through the pixilation, if you squint hard enough.

• SenorMysterioso
  April 3rd, 2008 at 8:20 pm

  Would have like to see the pictures after the quiz was over. I got all the change right

• Viola
  April 3rd, 2008 at 9:18 pm

  Little Miss Musician over here is loving the Beethoven race. Unfortunately, the 5th isn’t the most upbeat, speed-inspiring music. I’ve never been a fan of Bond, but here’s a great use for their music-butchering! Finally!

• Viola
  April 3rd, 2008 at 9:19 pm

  Wow. that comment was totally supposed to be in the race post.

• Viola
  April 3rd, 2008 at 9:21 pm

  But, so as not to leave this one out, I did horribly. Couldn’t get anything over the $50 bill.

• andrewdoane
  April 4th, 2008 at 7:21 am

  10/12 - turns out I didn’t know who was on the dime, and am therefore an idiot.

• Cindy
  April 4th, 2008 at 4:13 pm

  75%…not that bad

• Thomas
  April 4th, 2008 at 5:07 pm

  I missed the $5000 bill, just because I REALLY wanted Millard Fillmore to be on it.

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