Numbers by First Appearance of Letters

I did your seconed strategy as well and got twenty questions right :-)!

hahahaha I actually started crying when I read this

I don't get the reference.

kgoodsir, Zimbabwe used to use the Zimbabwean dollar as currency, but discontinued using it after a period of hyperinflation. When they changed currencies, the exchange rate was one US dollar to 35 quadrillion Zimbabwean dollars.

That would still be almost 30 billion US dollars, 30,000 times more than the song's million.

Both ways are correct; there's different usage by country (I think the US is the only place where the 'and' is usually omitted).

Why is 'and' not part of the word though, especially if people add the 'and' when they say it (except some Americans). The French use 'et un' for their numbers '21', '31', '41', '51' and '61', and for '71' they use 'et onze'... it's part of the written format. Back in the olden days of cheques (which can still be used today if people so choose', you have to write out the whole number, including the 'and's for the bank, who deal with numbers every single day. Nothing against you personally, by the way, just getting the point across to those making the same point as you and yours is the first...

Anyway, the answer is one thousAND

In the UK the "correct" way is definitely to use "and". Excluding the word is fine, but I think people saying it is "incorrect" to include "and" are definitely wrong.

"And" in numbers is only for separating fractions.

I wouldn't trust your trivia set to tell you that including the word "and" in a number is incorrect.

What technicality makes it incorrect?

Nought (or Naught) is not really slang, it means nothing and can be used as a number. It is not a slang term for zero but a word for nothing...... as in "All his worry was for nought" or "It was all for naught" etc.