Cents and Sensibility
The round title “Cents and Sensibility” is a money-themed pun on the title of this Jane Austen novel.
Sense and Sensibility
This U.S. president was shot by Charles Guiteau only months into his term and died from his wounds in 1881.
James Garfield
This French general-turned-emperor died in exile on the island of Saint Helena in 1821, likely from a stomach illness.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Seafaring raiders and explorers from early medieval Northern Europe, famous for their longships—and for a History Channel drama that shares their name.
Vikings
This planet in our solar system is famous for its large and bright ring system.
Saturn
According to the U.S. Mint, this is the thickest U.S. coin in circulation, measuring 2.15 millimeters.
Half Dollar
The 1914 assassination of this Austro-Hungarian archduke in Sarajevo helped ignite World War I.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
This leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and first head of the Soviet state died in 1924 after a series of strokes.
Vladimir Lenin
An orderly transfer of power from one ruler, monarch, or CEO to the next shares its name with this HBO drama about the Roy family.
Succession
This dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt is named after the Roman god of the underworld.
pluto
On the first issues of the U.S. Mint’s Presidential $1 coins, the motto “In God We Trust” appeared in this unusual location, instead of on the front or back.
on the edge of the coin
This Russian tsar and his family were executed by Bolsheviks in 1918, ending centuries of Romanov rule.
Nicholas II
This Ugandan dictator, who ruled in the 1970s, lived in exile in Saudi Arabia until his death from natural causes in 2003.
Idi Amin
A big public fall from grace after wrongdoing or impropriety shares its name with this political drama starring Kerry Washington.
Scandal
The boundary around a black hole beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape is called this.
The event horizon
This southern U.S. state honored Helen Keller on its state quarter, including her name in Braille, a first for U.S. coinage.
Alabama
After years as a royal rival to the English throne, this Scottish queen was executed by beheading in 1587.
Mary, Queen of Scots
This leader of the Free French forces in World War II later became president of France and died at home in 1970.
Charles de Gaulle
To have adequate reasoning for your actions is described by this word, which is also the title of a crime drama starring Timothy Olyphant as a U.S. marshal.
Justified
When light from a distant galaxy is bent around a massive object like a galaxy cluster, making the background object appear distorted or multiplied, it’s known as this phenomenon.
Gravitational lensing
“What’s the most you’ve ever lost on a coin toss?” is a famous and ominous line from this 2007 movie.
No Country for Old Men
This former Iraqi dictator was tried, convicted, and executed by hanging in 2006.
Saddam Hussein
This 12th president of the United States died in 1850 after only about 16 months in office, officially from sudden illness.
Zachary Taylor
A group of people linked by shared interests, also names the NBC sitcom set at Greendale.
community
Discovered in 2017, this cigar-shaped object was the first known interstellar visitor detected passing through our solar system.
oumuamua (oh-moo-uh-MOO-uh)