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- The largest U.S. banknote in circulation is
- the $100 bill
- the $1000 bill
- the $500 bill
- the $1000000 bill
- The largest Canadian banknote is
- the $1000 bill
- the $100 bill
- the $50 bill
- the $1000000 bill
- The wealthiest individual in the world is
- the Sultan of Brunei
- Bill Gates
- Queen Elizabeth II
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- The richest woman in the world is
- Queen Elizabeth II
- Oprah Winfrey
- Doris Duke
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- The earliest known coins were used in
- ancient Lydia (now Turkey)
- Mesopotamia (now Iraq)
- ancient Egypt
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- The first paper money was used by
- the Chinese people
- the English people
- the Jewish people
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- Making false or fake money is called
- forgery
- minting
- printing
- photocopying
- In mythology the man who could turn things he touched into gold was
- King Midas
- King Solomon
- King Henry VIII
- Merlin
- To betray Jesus, Judas was paid
- 30 pieces of silver
- 300 gold coins
- one million dollars
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- A person who hoards money is called
- a miser
- a millionaire
- a businessman
- a philanthropist
- The very first official U.S. dollars were made of
- paper
- gold
- silver
- nickel
- Which weighs more?
- 1 pound of dollar bills
- 1 pound of gold
- 1 pound of silver
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- U.S. supplies of gold are stored at
- Fort Knox
- Disneyland
- Fort Sumter
- Washington, D.C.
- Gold was discovered in California in
- 1848
- 1849
- 1949
- 1066
- The currency of Germany is the
- mark
- yen
- franc
- dollar
- The currency of France is the
- franc
- peso
- dollar
- ruble
- The currency of Mexico is the
- peso
- pound
- rand
- aztec
- Coins are made in a place called a
- mint
- foundry
- mine
- counting house
- The currency of Japan is the
- yen
- ruble
- rupee
- shilling
- The currency of India is the
- rupee
- yuan
- pound
- baht
- The first paper money in Europe was issued in
- Sweden
- England
- France
- Germany
- The patron saint of coinmakers was
- St. Eligius
- St. Midas
- St. George
- St. Peter
- The Yukon Gold Rush began in
- 1898
- 1849
- 1867
- 1902
- Pieces of eight were
- Spanish coins
- Inca tokens
- Aztec monuments
- English pirates
- Gold-seekers who took part in the California gold rush were known as
- forty-niners
- immigrants
- conquistadors
- sooners
- Black gold refers to
- oil
- coal
- loam
- soil
- In 1922, Howard Carter discovered the buried treasures of
- Tutankhamen
- Pancho Villa
- Treasure Island
- King Solomon
- The pirate story Treasure Island was written by
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Mark Twain
- Charles Dickens
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- The most valuable painting in the world is
- Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa
- Claude Monet's Dans le Prairie
- Pablo Picasso's Acrobate et Jeune Arlequin
- Pierre Auguste Renoir's Au Moulin de la Galette
- The biggest selling single record of all time was
- White Christmas
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- Home on the Range
- Happy Birthday
- The biggest selling record album of all time was
- Thriller by Michael Jackson
- Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles
- Greatest Hits by the Eagles
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- The largest diamond ever found was the
- Cullinan diamond
- Hope diamond
- Golden Jubilee diamond
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- The largest retailer in the world is
- Wal-Mart
- Sears
- Hudson's Bay Company
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- The largest commercial bank in the world is the
- Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi
- State Bank of India
- Bank of Montreal
- First U.S. National Bank
- The youngest person ever to accumulate a million dollars was
- Jackie Coogan
- Shirley Temple
- Bill Gates
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- A coin collector is known as
- a numismatist
- a philatelist
- an aristocrat
- a miser
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