This type of spending allows you to physically see the amount of money that you're paying, and helps you keep track of your expenses.
What is paying in cash?
100
This ancient empire used metal rings as money.
What is Ancient Egypt?
100
True or False:
American women today have higher overall education attainment than men.
True
100
The average debt of a college student.
What is $29,400?
100
This is the most counterfeited bill in the United States.
What is the $20 bill?
200
This is the amount of your income that should go towards your essential expenses. It should also not exceed this amount.
What is 50%?
200
This act established the coinage system in the United States and made the dollar its official currency.
What is the Mint Act?
200
The difference in income per year between men and women.
What is $11,000?
200
This is the amount that college tuition has gone up since 1982.
What is 400%?
200
These diseases have appeared in traces on the surface of money.
What are salmonella and e. coli.?
300
This is an easy way to keep track of your credit. The most common way is online, and the most common issue is that it is usually not necessarily "free".
What is a credit check?
300
This bill accounts for 48% of the paper bills printed by the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing. It also lasts for about 18 months before it wears out and contains the "all seeing eye".
What is the dollar bill?
300
True or False:
Native Americans will make more money than Asians in the United States.
False
300
This is the unemployment rate of college graduates under the age of 25.
What is over 9%?
18 million college students
>1.62 million will be unemployed
300
This phrase first appeared on U.S. money between 1864-1873 on a two-cent coin. It reappeared in 1955 and has been on all U.S. money since 1963.
What is "In God We Trust"?
400
This is the amount of money, on average, parents spend raising a child from birth to age 18.
What is $225,000?
400
He is the only non-president to appear on a bill and definitely knows how to light up the room.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
400
The difference of average incomes between the wealthiest congressional district (Upper East Side, New York) and the poorest congressional district (South Bronx, New York).
What is $42,000?
400
The amount, per second, that student loan debt increases.
What is $2,853.88?
400
This is the number that the U.S. landed in for The World's Happiest and Saddest Countries 2013.
What is eleven?
500
Trusting your instincts is important. This allows you to do that while making a purchase.
What is timing yourself?
500
She is the first woman to ever be on a U.S. coin.
(Bonus 300 pts.: Where is she from?)
Who is Queen Isabella of Spain?
500
True or False:
U.S money is made from paper.
False. Currency is 3/4 cotton and 1/4 linen, with red and blue synthetic fibers woven through.
500
These are typically the worst paying majors. (10)
What are social work, theology, elementary education, music, Spanish, horticulture, fine arts, education, hospitality/tourism, and drama?
500
This is the reason that no living president is allowed on U.S currency.
What is to ensure that the United States did not appear to be a monarchy?