Anyone like Coin Trivia?

[longnine009]

I have the CoinWorld Triva game and can post more questions if there is any interest in it. It was published in 1985 which must be kept in mind for some questions such as the first one.

1)What is the column which Michael (Miles) Standish writes for CoinWorld?
2) When did the Royal Canadian Mint switch to a pure nickel dollar?
3) What coin has on the reverse "400 cents"?
4) What percentage of the copper nickel 3-cent piece is nickel?
5) How many pence are in a groat?

Next is  the question from hell. It's my own question and anyone who can answer it will be granted three wishes from the Imperial Leprechaun  Tim Geithner.

Two members of the BIE Guild were credited with discovering the "Jack and Jean" 1/4 center (C1/4) BIE on the 1964D Lincoln cent. What were the full names of Jack and Jean.

[Paint Your Wagon]

My gosh I don't know the answer to any of those questions

That reminds me of a 1970 ies something game called Lazy Larry in the land of the Lounge Lizards
somebody had installed on a shared computer
To start the game you had to prove you were an adult by answering questions
I failed 50% of the time because the questions were american oriented

[longnine009]

I never read all the questions--there's suppose to be more than 2,500 of them. But I'll see if can find any on Belgium or French coins.

[Paint Your Wagon]

I have a Belgian one (to which I do not know the answer )

When did Belgium stop to make coins with holes in the middle ?

I used them with a rubber band as a kid to make the coin disappear instanteneously 

[longnine009]

I have a Belgian one (to which I do not know the answer )

When did Belgium stop to make coins with holes in the middle ?

I used them with a rubber band as a kid to make the coin disappear instanteneously 

Why do coins have holes at all in them. And why are some round and others square?   

[longnine009]

I'm believe  Trivia games might  become pretty popular again in the  U.S once people figure out that the so called recovery is nothing but a Snickers commercial--"Not going anywhere for awhile?"   During the other Great Depression there was puzzle craze going on the U.S. There was even a court case over a husband who was hiding some pieces to his wife's puzzle just to piss her off. Apparently it worked.  

[Triggersmob]

4) What percentage of the copper nickel 3-cent piece is nickel?

25%

5) How many pence are in a groat?

Four Pence

When did Belgium stop to make coins with holes in the middle ?

Could be this one...finished in 1947


That's me done. Someone else can answer the hard ones. LOL

[Paint Your Wagon]

I played with those 25 cent coins with a hole in them around 1953

So I looked up the online catalogue and the 1947 is marked minted but never put in circulation

http://users.telenet.be/egmp/belgie/cat/indexeb-.htm

[longnine009]

I have the CoinWorld Triva game and can post more questions if there is any interest in it. It was published in 1985 which must be kept in mind for some questions such as the first one.

1)What is the column which Michael (Miles) Standish writes for CoinWorld?
2) When did the Royal Canadian Mint switch to a pure nickel dollar?
3) What coin has on the reverse "400 cents"?
4) What percentage of the copper nickel 3-cent piece is nickel?
5) How many pence are in a groat?

Next is  the question from hell. It's my own question and anyone who can answer it will be granted three wishes from the Imperial Leprechaun  Tim Geithner.

Two members of the BIE Guild were credited with discovering the "Jack and Jean" 1/4 center (C1/4) BIE on the 1964D Lincoln cent. What were the full names of Jack and Jean.

Triggersmob's answers for #4 an 5 are correct. Here's all the answers.

1) At the time the game was published Miles Standish  [ a TPG grader today?] wrote a column for CoinWorld called Under the loupe.
2) 1968
3) The $4 gold piece or "Stella."  [I would have thought this was a give me.  How many $4 U.S coins are there? ]
4) 25%
5) 4

The answer to the question from hell is Jack E. Sams and Mrs. Jean Campbell. Both discovered the BIE error at the same time on coins in different die stages so both were credited with the find.