Business and Finance Trivia

  • Touching or feeling money can help you overcome negative, physical and emotional experiences.
  • The highest denomination of currency issued by the U.S. is the $100,000 bill.
  • Advertising, circumstantial, compromise, design, employer, misquote, luggage, worthless and swagger are all words coined by Shakespeare
  • In Palestine, tax rates were so high in 1600s under Ottomans that peasant abandoned fertile land to move up into the hills to escape levies.
  • If you had $1 billion and spent $1,000 a day, it would take 2,740 years to go broke.
  • Pranab Mukherjee was the first Rajya Sabha member to hold finance portfolio.
  • Studies at Princeton University have found that money can buy happiness when you make at least $75,000 a year.
  • Only 8% of the world's currency exists as physical cash, the rest is electronic.
  • Employees of the Vatican pay no income tax.
  • The note with the most zeros is a Yugoslavia 500,000,000,000 Dinara, issued in 1993 with 11 zeros
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