Getting your questions ready
Getting your questions ready
All 10 questions with answers and explanations. Play this daily
Q 01Of which metals are Galleons, Sickles and Knuts made, respectively?
Gold, silver, and bronze
Galleons are gold, Sickles are silver, and Knuts are bronze. The system deliberately echoes pre-decimal British coinage, with its quirky, non-decimal conversion rates.
Q 02What are the gold coins of Westeros called in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire?
Gold dragons
Gold dragons are the highest-value coin in Westeros, struck with the face and name of the king reigning when they were minted. Silver stags and copper pennies make up the smaller denominations.
Q 03Which goblin-run bank holds wizards' Galleons, Sickles and Knuts in the Harry Potter books?
Gringotts
Gringotts. It is the only wizarding bank in the novels, and there a Galleon is worth 17 Sickles and a Sickle 29 Knuts.
Q 04In Frank Herbert's Dune, what is the official monetary unit of the Galactic Imperium?
Solari
Solari. It is the Imperium's official currency, yet spice is so valuable that Duke Leto says a handful of it would buy a home on Tupile.
Q 05In Brandon Sanderson's The Stormlight Archive, what are the glass-encased gemstones used as money called?
Spheres
Spheres. They double as money and lamps, because the gemstones inside soak up Stormlight whenever a highstorm passes.
Q 06In The Kingkiller Chronicle, what is the correct order of Cealdish coins from least to most valuable?
Iron drab, copper jot, silver talent, gold mark
Iron drab, copper jot, silver talent, gold mark. Ceald counts in tens, so 10 drabs make a jot, 10 jots a talent and 10 talents a mark.
Q 07In the Dragonlance novels, which metal is more valuable than gold and serves as the primary currency?
Steel
After the Cataclysm devastated Krynn, soft metals like gold lost practical value and became merely ornamental. Steel, essential for weapons and tools in a post-apocalyptic world, became the most prized monetary metal.
Q 08Worth eight triangular rubber Ningis 6,800 miles a side, the Triganic Pu is currency in which comic series?
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. With Ningis that size, no one has ever collected enough to own one Pu, and Galactibanks refuse to deal in such fiddling small change.
Q 09Which reformed con man runs the Ankh-Morpork Royal Mint and introduces paper money in Pratchett's Making Money?
Moist von Lipwig
Moist von Lipwig, first introduced in Going Postal, is manipulated by the Patrician into running the Royal Bank and Mint. He discovers the gold-backed dollar is failing and pioneers fiat paper currency for the city.
Q 10In Tolkien's notes on Gondor's money, the coin name "tharni" came from an old word meaning what?
A quarter, like the English farthing
A quarter, like the English farthing. Tolkien made the tharni Gondor's silver quarter-castar, called canath in Sindarin.