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Quiz: Commoners on Banknotes
- In 2017, who was unveiled on the new British £10 banknote on the 200th anniversary of the that person's death?
- As of 2023, all Bank of Scotland notes bear a portrait of which famous Scot?
- Who featured on the last British pound notes?
- Who features on the reverse of the British £50 polymer notes first issued on 23 June 2021?
- Whose image appears on the Australian 10 dollar note, along with an illustration inspired by "The Man From Snowy River"?
- Name the 18th President of the United States who features on the front of an American 50 dollar bill?
- In 2006, the Ulster Bank issued one million £5 notes featuring which famous person?
- Which famous Norwegian featured on the 1000 kroner notes printed between 2001 and 2019?
- Which New Zealander has been on New Zealand's five-dollar note since 1992?
- Can you name the first historical woman to feature on a British banknote?
- Where in the world would you see Horatio Nelson on the reverse of a £20 note issued in 1995?
- Which actress is on the obverse of Sweden's 100 krona notes issued in 2016?
- Which famous person is on the reverese of the £5 notes issued in the United Kingdom in 2016?
- Who featured on the reverse of the £5 notes in circulation in the UK between 2002 and 2016?
- As of 2013, a portrait of Hannibal features on the 5 dinar banknotes of which country?
- Which accomplished historical figure appeared on the back of United Kingdom £50 notes from 1981 to 1996?
- Chinese money displays the face of which influential figure?
- The £20 banknote first issued in June 1999, carried the portrait of which composer?
Answers
- Jane Austen
- Sir Walter Scott
- Sir Isaac Newton
- Alan Turing
- Banjo Paterson's
- Ulysses S. Grant
- George Best
- Edvard Munch
- Sir Edmund Hillary
- Florence Nightingale (appeared on the £10 note between 1975 and 1992)
- Gibraltar
- Greta Garbo
- Winston Churchill
- Elizabeth Fry
- Tunisia
- Sir Christopher Wren
- Mao Zedong, or Mao
- Sir Edward Elgar