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People on Money by Country

Can you name the countries that feature (or once featured) these people on their currency?
Answer must correspond to the yellow box
Each country is used only once
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Last updated: January 2, 2020
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First submittedOctober 29, 2019
Times taken26,803
Average score57.1%
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Person
Country
Mahatma Gandhi
India
Mao Zedong
China
Genghis Khan
Mongolia
Peter the Great
Russia
Nelson Mandela
South Africa
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Turkey
Ho Chi Minh
Vietnam
Kim Il-sung
North Korea
Ruhollah Khomeini
Iran
Ramesses the Great
Egypt
Che Guevara
Cuba
Edmund Hillary
New Zealand
Toussaint Louverture
Haiti
Nursultan Nazarbayev
Kazakhstan
Person
Country
Nikola Tesla
Serbia
Sun Yat-sen
Taiwan
Benito Juárez
Mexico
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Pakistan
Manuel L. Quezon
Philippines
José de San Martín
Argentina
Patrice Lumumba
D.R. Congo
Niels Bohr
Denmark
King Stephen I
Hungary
Abdullah II ibn al-Hussein
Jordan
Edvard Munch
Norway
Casimir the Great
Poland
Greta Garbo
Sweden
Hannibal
Tunisia
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Level 71
Nov 1, 2019
There seems to be an error. I got 5 points, getting only 22 right. maybe thats because the quiz is so new?
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Level ∞
Nov 1, 2019
Probably. You can get 5 points by being in the 95th percentile, which is a moving target.
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Level 72
Jan 2, 2020
Aw, I only got 4 points with 27 right. Should have taken this sooner!
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Level 78
Nov 2, 2019
Rather a shame that the euro-countries are excluded. Pre-euro there was certainly a good amount of people on their currency.
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Level 71
Nov 2, 2019
If ever there was a quiz of two halves that is it. First column is pretty straight forward. The second column jesus! A few I guessed every country in their region bar the answer but that's a tough tough second column.
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Level 55
Jan 2, 2020
The answer Niels Bohr, Denmark has not been correct for about 10 years. The 2009 series does not contain pictures of persons, but danish bridges instead. See them here: http://www.nationalbanken.dk/en/banknotes_and_coins/Danish_banknotes/Pages/50-krone-banknote.aspx
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Level ∞
Jan 2, 2020
Edited the quiz description. Bridges? That is truly boring.
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Level 55
Jan 2, 2020
And the an addition - the older series are of course still valid, but will be taken out of use whenever a bank gets their hands on them ;-)
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Level 44
Jan 2, 2020
Loved that quiz! I only got 12, but enjoyed it nonetheless. Time to sharpen my skills after being gone from JetPunk for a while ;)
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Level 67
Jan 2, 2020
Nice quiz. Missed Hillary, Louverture, al-Hussein, Jinnah and Casimir in the first attempt
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Level 45
Jan 2, 2020
Why is Nikola Tesla on Serbian money?
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Level 72
Jan 2, 2020
They're big fans of electric cars in Serbia.

(just kidding, it's because he grew up an ethnic and cultural Serb in the Austro-Hungarian Empire)

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Level 45
Dec 26, 2021
And there is s Tesla Museum in Belgrad as far as I can remember. So that one was an easy one for me.
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Level 43
Jan 3, 2020
Fun fact: us Americans have Toussaint L'Ouverture to thank for about a third of our land.

The Louisiana Purchase was made possible when France's attention was diverted from their American territory to Haiti where L'Ouverture was leading a slave revolt.

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Level 44
Jan 7, 2020
I know it is no longer a country, but could Yugoslavia also be accepted for Nikola Tesla?? He was featured on their money after all!
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Level 40
Feb 5, 2020
I'm Polish and i did not recognise Casimir The Great, becuase of completely different pronounce than in Polish
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Level 63
Sep 24, 2020
On polish money I'd expect Marie Curie, Copernicus or F. Chopin.
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Level 56
Jul 6, 2023
In Poland we have only former kings on money
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Level 66
Oct 11, 2021
Norway no longer has Edward Munch, or any people for that matter on money. Exception being two coins, where the king is depicted.
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Level 83
Dec 26, 2021
Born in Austria-Hungary, on land that is now Croatia, died a citizen of the USA... put on money from some country that is neither Austria, nor Hungary, nor Croatia, nor the US, but that has nothing else to feel proud of apparently. Who is... ?
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Level 72
Dec 27, 2021
It seems like someone doesn't know what an ethnicity is.
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Level 83
Dec 27, 2021
seems like someone doesn't know what a country is
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Level 78
Dec 26, 2021
Only missed King Stephen... I tried nearly every European country but managed to miss the hungry one!!
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Level 75
Dec 27, 2021
So if you call out someone for ridiculing a country (however implicit it was) and point out the hypocrisy of them not tolerating someone else even slightly criticising their country (of which there's ample proof on this site's comments), you get your comment deleted.

I was never disrespectful in any way, but it doesn't matter I guess, cause apparently there's a double standard and some veterans on this site are untouchable. Good to know.

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Level 83
Dec 27, 2021
baloney. but regardless of whatever your first comment was, the implication in this one is demonstrably wrong. Not that I haven't seen people make it (and be wrong) before. Probably QM didn't feel like seeing me go through the proof again.

Also, if there ever were stats published, I feel pretty confident that I may hold the record for most deleted comments of anyone on this site.

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Level 75
Jan 3, 2022
Fair enough on the second point, I can only go by what you say.

As for the first one, I've seen this before, it's quite prevalent with people in the US (and my gf, who's from the US, has attested to it) that think themselves quite critical of their own country and yet are blind to their own nationalistic bias. American exceptionalism is ingrained in your culture, often in very subtle and insidious ways, which makes it in some ways a lot more problematic than your run of the mill jingoism.

Also, you say "demonstrably" when nothing has been demonstrated in this comment section, not even my comment, which is an opinion, as is yours. But apparently you seem to be under the impression you are the sole possessor of the truth, which is why you so often make snarky condescending replies, like the one you made to FedericoGuzman up there (btw pointing out something irrelevant to the issue being argued).

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Level 55
Dec 27, 2021
i knew casimir was polish because of civilisation 5! video games can be educational too
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Level 56
Mar 22, 2023
More people knows DRC than Hungary and Poland?
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Level 56
Jul 6, 2023
And Polish jetpunk is one of the biggest
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Level 56
Jul 6, 2023
I had to think for a while to realise who Casimir the Great is xD