Family Forum 257/SOMC Family Forum 257 - Disc 1.iso/SCREENS/QUIZ/L2QUEST.TXT

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@If you could spend a dollar every minute, how long would it take to spend a billion dollars?
+2 years
+20 years
|2,000 years

#\6
@Which of the following is not a very nice thing to say?
+You look like a million bucks
|You're a real penny pincher
+I'll give you a penny for your thoughts

#\7
@Where do you think all our U.S. dollars made?
|Washington D.C.
+Wall Street
+The FBI

#\8
@Obelas were the smallest form of money ever used. Greek people carried their Obelas around in:
+Tiny silk purses
+Their shoes
|Their mouths

#\10
@Think a dime weighs nothing? The lightest form of money ever used was:
+Cat hair
|Bird feathers
+Tree bark

#\11
@Think your mom's purse is heavy? The heaviest form of money ever used was:
|A twelve foot tall hunk of stone
+A brick
+Steel pipes

#\13
@The first American gold coin, the regal Eagle, was worth:
|$10
+$1
+25 cents

#\39
@Today, all our paper money is printed on a special kind of paper made from:
+Pine tree bark
|Linen and cotton
+Sycamore pulp

#\41
@What does the Federal Reserve Bank do with damaged dollar bills?
|Shreds and burns them
+Repairs them
+Stores them in an air-tight vault

#\42
@Where does the dollar slang term "buck" come from?
|Buckskin
+Buccaneer
+Buckle

#\45
@About how much do you think a 64-color box of crayons costs?
+10 cents
|$5.00
+$100.00

#\54
@If early money wasn't hairy, why did people shave it?
|So they could sell the scraps
+To keep it clean
+Because it was polite

#\55
@The proud quarter gets its name from:
|What it's worth
+An section of the town where it was first minted
+A river near Philadelphia

#\57
@How many checking accounts do you think there are in the entire country?
+A billion
|125 million
+12 million

#\58
@What's an ATM?
|Automated Teller Machine
+A kind of checking account
+The biggest bank in the world

#\59
@Before people invented cold, hard cash, they used a trading system called:
+Bantering
|Bartering
+Bickering

#\60
@Coins first rolled onto the scene in the year:
|700 B.C.
+0
+1904

#\61
@Gold, the most precious metal, was first used as money in:
+England
+Nevada
|Turkey

#\63
@In 1626, Peter Minuit, a Dutch settler, bought the island of Manhattan for:
|$24
+$24,000
+$240,000


#\76
@You have a friend who gets $2 a week allowance and saves every penny. She's:
+No fun
+Wasteful
|Wise

#\78
@When someone is very successful at making money, we say that they have:
+A green thumb
+Dumb luck
|The Midas touch

#\79
@Which of the following has never been a U.S. coin?
+Three cents
+Half a cent
|Four cents

#\82
@What metal are pennies made of?
+Iron
+Brass
|Copper

#\83
@When someone tries to pass off a copy of money as the real thing, we call that money:
+Counterweight
|Counterfeit
+Counterclock-wise

#\84
@The tiny dime gets its name from:
+The lyrics of a song
|A Latin word
+The name of one of the Founding Fathers

#\86
@What's so special about the kind of ink used to print our dollar bills?
+It's made of soy beans
|It never completely dries
+It turns blue during a full moon

#\87
@"Pieces of eight" are:
+Pirate slang for gold coins
+Bits of broken glass
|Spanish dollars

#\88
@Paper money is sometimes called a "greenback" because:
|The back of the original U.S. dollar bill was green
+The people who make it wear green uniforms
+The first bills were printed on St. Patrick's Day

#\89
@To "nickel and dime" someone means to:
+Toss coins at them
|Be cheap with them
+Ask for your change in nickels and dimes

#\90
@"Your bottom dollar" means:
|Your last dollar bill
+A dirty dollar bill
+The balance of your checking account

#\91
@All the coins we know, love and use today were first introduced in:
|1900
+1875
+1956

#\92
@If someone says something costs "a dime a dozen" they probably mean:
+You get twelve items for a dime
+You get ripped off if you buy the item
|The item is easy to come by

#\93
@When you tell someone "A penny for your thoughts," you're really saying:
+Your thoughts are worthless
|I want to know what you're thinking
+Can I borrow a penny?

#\94
@The average life of a one dollar bill is:
+Ten years
+Sixteen days
|One and a half years

#\96
@Who didn't want his picture on a coin?
|George Washington
+Alexander Hamilton
+Abraham Lincoln

#\97
@We get the word "bank" from the Italian word for:
+Vault
+Pasta
|Bench

#\98
@When you deposit your hard-earned cash in a bank, it:
+Just sits there
|Gets lent out to other people
+Is locked up in a vault with your name on it

#\99
@Bouncing a check means:
+Taking money from one account and putting it in another
+Throwing a check at a cashier in anger
|Writing a check when you don't have enough in your account to pay for it

#\100
@The word "credit" as in "credit card" comes from:
+The Italian word for pizza crust
|The Latin word for trust
+The German word for marching in place

#\166
@If you took $1 million dollar bills and laid them end to end they would stretch from:
|New York to Philadelphia
+New York to Los Angeles
+One end of New York City to the other

#\103
@How many $10,000 bills are in circulation in the U.S. today?
+None
+34,000
|345

#\107
@What's a budget?
|A plan that helps you spend your money exactly the way you want
+An excuse for not spending money
+Something that's inexpensive

#\109
@What's the easiest way to earn money?
+Mow lawns
+Newspaper route
|Savings account

#\110
@What's interest when it comes to money?
+All money is interesting
|The money that money earns in the bank
+The cleanest dollar bills available

#\33
@Your mom takes you to the toy store during a sale and says you can spend $8. What might you be able to afford?
+A two-story wooden dollhouse
|A set of watercolors
+A leather baseball glove

#\34
@Which is the best deal on ice cream cones?
+One scoop for a dollar
+Two scoops for a dollar
|Three scoops for a dollar

#\56
@Your sister offers to pay for just one thing when you go to the movies. Which would be worth the most?
|The movie ticket
+A bag of popcorn
+A root beer

#\62
@Which of the following are NOT slang words for money:
+ Spondulux, Simoleons, Shekels
+Beans, Bits, Berries
|Hip, Hop, Hot

#\65
@Which is worth more on a rainy day?
|Fourteen pennies
+Two nickels
+One dime

#\66
@Which would you rather find in the street?
|A one dollar bill
+Three quarters
+Nine dimes

#\67
@Which would you rather find under your bed?
+Twenty pennies
+Four nickels
|Three dimes

#\68
@Tell me now--which would you rather earn in an hour?
+A dollar
+A dollar and a quarter
|130 pennies

#\69
@What's a dollar worth to you at the grocery store?
|Ten dimes
+75 pennies
+Three nickels

#\70
@Your brother wants to make you a trade. Which is the best deal?
+Your beat-up dollar for his shiny quarter
+Your beat-up dollar for a rock
|No trade at all

#\71
@Your grandmother gives you $14 for your birthday and asks that you save half of it. How much should you save?
|One $5 bill, one $1 bill and 4 quarters
+Two $5 bills and a dime
+Five $1 bills, four quarters and a nickel

#\72
@You've got a brand new penny and your little brother wants to trade you for a dollar. What should you do?
+Yell at him
+Take his dollar
|Tell him to hang onto his money

#\73
@Which would you rather the tooth fairy bring?
+Five quarters
|50 dimes
+13 pennies and a nickel

#\74
@You get $5 a week allowance. If you saved all your allowance for the whole month of February, what would you have?
|Twenty dollars
+Fifty dollars
+A headache

#\77
@Which would you rather your Aunt Martha give you for your birthday?
+Twelve crisp $1 bills
+ One worn-out $10 bill
|A check for $15

#\105
@What should a cashier give you back if you buy an 85 cent soda and you give her a dollar?
+A dozen pennies
|A nickel and a dime
+A quarter

#\106
@What should a cashier give you back if you buy a $14 poster and you give her a twenty dollar bill?
+Five dollars
|Six dollars
+Seven dollars