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Lunchtime Quiz: Bill Backs
by Sandy and Kara - April 29, 2009 - 11:30 AM

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Most other nations of the world use different colors and sizes of bills in order to distinguish the values of their paper money. By comparison, it can be difficult to tell a $5 from a $50 bill at a passing glance. Granted, the new designs and color shades adopted by the U.S. Treasury have helped a bit in this regard. Still, the notes look quite similar when one examines only certain elements. In this case, we’ve extracted the buildings depicted on the back of five U.S. currency notes; can you identify their values?

Take the Quiz: Bill Backs

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  1. Haha…when I saw the quiz name, my first thought was “who’s Bill Backs?”

    Didn’t do too well on the quiz…probably comes from the fact I rarely see money. Stupid economy.

    posted by Shelly on 4-29-2009 at 11:54 am

  2. 100 Percent! I normally use a card for everything so this was extra hard. I just tried to associate the person on the front of the bill with the building on the back as best I could.

    posted by Nick on 4-29-2009 at 12:38 pm

  3. 100! I just matched them up based on quality of the picture. Yes!

    posted by Jeff on 4-29-2009 at 1:01 pm

  4. I’m living in Japan and haven’t seen American money in over a year and still got 100%! Yay!

    posted by Elsa on 4-29-2009 at 1:09 pm

  5. I was able to remember the building on the $20 bill because of that 9/11 money-folding thing. It seems that you can fold a 20 such that a creepy image of the twin towers burning appears.

    I never thought that such a silly trick I learned in middle school could come in so handy.

    (The fold is described at foldmoney(dot)com)

    posted by Andy on 4-29-2009 at 1:14 pm

  6. How come I can not get these quizzes to work often using Firefox and OS 10.5?
    I can’t find the boxes to enter the answers.

    posted by bob on 4-29-2009 at 5:42 pm

  7. I’m suprised I knew all of them–I’m abroad right now and back home, honestly, I pretty much only have $1 or $5 bills on me!

    posted by sarah on 4-29-2009 at 7:38 pm

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