Statistics for History of paper money

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
First country in the world that started using it.	China	85%
Italian merchant and explorer who bought the idea from the Far East to Europe.	Marco Polo	85%
Mongol leader who issued silk-backed currency in 1227.	Genghis Khan	77%
This African country, fighting hyperinflation in 2009., issued the biggest banknote in history: 100 000 000 000 000 dollars.	Zimbabwe	62%
Economic occurence that makes paper money useless which led to the failure of all early attempts of creating a stable paper currency.	Inflation	46%
His grandson who made it the only form of payment and punished people who refused to use it by death.	Kublai Khan	38%
First European country to start issuing banknotes in 1661.	Sweden	31%
Year that first U.S. dollar bill was printed to help finance an ongoing war.	1862.	15%
European military order which offered services of depositing and guarding wealth and issued a bill of credit which allowed people to withdraw it in another place, creating the worlds first bank.	Knights Templar	15%
British ruler who founded Bank of England in 1694. and issued first pound banknotes to help him raise money for war against France.	William III	15%