The Money Quiz

By Miss Cellania in Mentalfloss on Apr 3, 2008 at 11:34 am

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The Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss is on American money. How well do you know the faces on your money? I got 11 out of 12 right; I only missed a bill that I’d never seen before. To be honest, there are several I’d never seen before, but I guessed right on some. Link


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  1. kuanes
    Apr 3rd, 2008 at 11:47 am

    11/12

    did you miss the $1000?

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

  2. JoBo S
    Apr 3rd, 2008 at 11:48 am

    9 out of 12!

  3. JoBo S
    Apr 3rd, 2008 at 11:48 am

    Guess I need to start paying attention to those faces…

  4. NeonCat
    Apr 3rd, 2008 at 12:16 pm

    100%! Woo-hoo!

  5. luke
    Apr 3rd, 2008 at 12:40 pm

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

  6. probinu
    Apr 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.

  7. Miss Cellania
    Apr 3rd, 2008 at 1:01 pm

    kaunes, yes, that was the one I missed!

  8. Sofar
    Apr 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.

  9. Caitlin
    Apr 3rd, 2008 at 2:26 pm

    :( nine out of twelve

  10. su.wei
    Apr 3rd, 2008 at 2:59 pm

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

  11. Xayzer
    Apr 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 :-)

  12. Thespian24601
    Apr 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.

  13. ted
    Apr 3rd, 2008 at 4:08 pm

    58%. Not completely awful for a foreigner.

  14. NeonCat
    Apr 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.

  15. Sofar
    Apr 3rd, 2008 at 5:04 pm

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

  16. empty-minded
    Apr 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).

  17. xander
    Apr 3rd, 2008 at 6:11 pm

    I got all 12 and the bonus!

  18. xander
    Apr 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.

  19. Miss Cellania
    Apr 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.

  20. SenorMysterioso
    Apr 3rd, 2008 at 8:20 pm

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

  21. Viola
    Apr 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!

  22. Viola
    Apr 3rd, 2008 at 9:19 pm

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

  23. Viola
    Apr 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.

  24. andrewdoane
    Apr 4th, 2008 at 7:21 am

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

  25. Cindy
    Apr 4th, 2008 at 4:13 pm

    75%…not that bad

  26. Thomas
    Apr 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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