Money and Currency: 50 Trivia Questions to Test Yourself

50 Money and Currency trivia questions. You get 9 seconds each — pause if you need to, and post your score in the comments. 0:00 Intro 0:12 Q1. Founded in 1668, the world's oldest surviving cen... 0:24 Q2. Which Bohemian mining town, now Jáchymov, gave th... 0:36 Q3. On a coin, what is the technical name for the sid... 0:48 Q4. The word 'money' derives from Moneta, an epithet... 1:00 Q5. Which country issued the world's first polymer ba... 1:12 Q6. Whose portrait appears on the $100,000 gold certi... 1:24 Q7. In pre-decimal Britain the penny was abbreviated... 1:36 Q8. The Bank for International Settlements has its he... 1:48 Q9. What term describes a government stripping a bank... 2:00 Q10. Numismatists call which 11th-century Sichuan prom... 2:12 Q11. Europe's first banknotes were printed in 1661 by... 2:24 Q12. How many shillings made up one British guinea 2:36 Q13. Which scientist served as Master of the Royal Min... 2:48 Q14. The pound sign evolved from the initial of which... 3:00 Q15. Which country issued the 100 million B-pengő note... 3:12 Q16. Which currency replaced the Hungarian pengő in Au... 3:24 Q17. Which new German currency, introduced in November... 3:36 Q18. Zimbabwe printed a note of what record denominati... 3:48 Q19. Which Civil War era Treasury Secretary appears on... 4:00 Q20. Which assassinated president appears on the US $5... 4:12 Q21. The motto 'In God We Trust' first appeared in 186... 4:24 Q22. An 'S' mint mark on a US coin means it was struck... 4:36 Q23. Milled and reeded coin edges were introduced to s... 4:48 Q24. What percentage of a US five-cent nickel is actua... 5:00 Q25. Every Maria Theresa thaler struck since her death... 5:12 Q26. Which Boer statesman's face appears on South Afri... 5:24 Q27. Huge carved limestone discs called rai served as... 5:36 Q28. Which shell beads served as currency among the pe... 5:48 Q29. Which monetary principle states that bad money dr... 6:00 Q30. The 1944 conference that shaped the postwar monet... 6:12 Q31. Which supplementary reserve asset did the IMF cre... 6:24 Q32. The Bank of England is nicknamed the Old Lady of... 6:36 Q33. The CH in the Swiss franc's currency code CHF sta... 6:48 Q34. The euro sign is a stylised form of which letter... 7:00 Q35. Which euro banknote denomination stopped being is... 7:12 Q36. Which country adopted the euro on 1 January 2023,... 7:24 Q37. The Malagasy ariary and Mauritanian ouguiya each... 7:36 Q38. Panama's national currency is named after which S... 7:48 Q39. The ngultrum is the national currency of which Hi... 8:00 Q40. Monte dei Paschi, the world's oldest surviving ba... 8:12 Q41. Which check-digit formula, devised at IBM, valida... 8:24 Q42. Mongolia's national currency goes by what name 8:36 Q43. Which company launched the first independent char... 8:48 Q44. Which South American country abandoned its own cu... 9:00 Q45. One hundred millionth of a bitcoin is known by wh... 9:12 Q46. Which woman became the first to appear on a circu... 9:24 Q47. How many fils make up one Kuwaiti dinar 9:36 Q48. On what date did Britain and Ireland decimalise t... 9:48 Q49. The word 'salary' comes from the Latin word for w... 10:00 Q50. The edge motto DECUS ET TUTAMEN on the round Brit... 10:12 Thanks for playing New trivia every day. Subscribe so you don't miss one. #trivia #quiz #triviaquestions