Mind & society
The “Money: from shells to bitcoin” quiz — Mind & society. It has 25 questions in five categories: Before coins, Mint and metal, Paper money, Symbols & slang, Plastic & crypto. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
What is the name of the glossy shells used as currency across Africa and Asia for millennia?
Which beans served as money in the Aztec Empire, where a hundred of them could buy a turkey?
On which remote Pacific…
In the gameWhich popular beverage was…
In the gameWhich shell beads, woven…
In the gameWhich sacred nocturnal bird of wisdom was stamped on ancient Athens' famous silver tetradrachms?
Which natural alloy of gold and silver was used to strike the world's earliest official coins in Lydia?
Which Roman general and…
In the gameWhich illicit practice of…
In the gameWhich legendary physicist served…
In the gameIn which country were the world's first official government banknotes, known as jiaozi, issued under the Song dynasty?
Which Venetian traveler astonished medieval Europe by describing Kublai Khan's paper currency made from mulberry bark?
In which European country…
In the gameWhich country became the…
In the gameFounded by Johan Palmstruch…
In the gameWhich common currency uses a symbol based on the Greek letter epsilon with two horizontal lines?
Which global currency got its name from silver thaler coins minted in the Bohemian valley of Joachimsthal?
The symbol £ for…
In the gameWhich nickname for US…
In the gameThe slang word 'buck'…
In the gameIn May 2010, programmer Laszlo Hanyecz made history by spending 10,000 bitcoins on two delivered orders of what?
Which pseudonym was used by the creator of Bitcoin, whose name also denotes the smallest unit of the currency?
ATM inventor John Shepherd-Barron…
In the gameAfter forgetting his wallet…
In the gameWhich cryptographer received the…
In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.
