# Odd Man Out **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 13, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-man-out/757277 "2016-06-13T18:58:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-man-out/757277/122 "2016-06-23T03:51:32Z")
I doubt this is the intended answer, but all except Lincoln served as school presidents or trustees (Franklin at the University of Pennsylvania, Eisenhower at Columbia, Anthony at a reform school in Rochester). ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-man-out/757277/123 "2016-06-23T03:59:04Z")
Eisenhower is the only one who hasn’t been, and isn’t scheduled to be, featured on both coins and paper currency of the U.S. Anthony was on the $1 coin and is scheduled to be on the back of the [new $10 bill](https://modernmoney.treasury.gov/new-bills/10-bill); Lincoln is on the penny and the $5 bill, Franklin is on the $100 bill and used to be on the half dollar coin. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-man-out/757277/124 "2016-06-23T04:13:02Z")
> [@bibliophage](#): > > Eisenhower is the only one who hasn’t been, and isn’t scheduled to be, featured on both coins and paper currency of the U.S. Anthony was on the $1 coin and is scheduled to be on the back of the [new $10 bill](https://modernmoney.treasury.gov/new-bills/10-bill); Lincoln is on the penny and the $5 bill, Franklin is on the $100 bill and used to be on the half dollar coin. No. Eisenhower was briefly on a $1 coin. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-man-out/757277/125 "2016-06-23T04:14:14Z")
> [@bibliophage](#): > > Franklin was on the half dollar from 1948 to 1963. I’ll be damned. I’ve never seen on of those, and they were minted until '63. I used to see Kennedy half-dollars when I was young. Either there weren’t many Franklins or they stopped circulating pretty quickly. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-man-out/757277/126 "2016-06-23T04:15:36Z")
> [@bibliophage](#): > > I doubt this is the intended answer, but all except Lincoln served as school presidents or trustees (Franklin at the University of Pennsylvania, Eisenhower at Columbia, Anthony at a reform school in Rochester). That wasn’t my intended answer at all. The ones with coins are on the right track, but no one has quite gotten it (I didn’t think it would be this hard). I love when there’s a really off-beat alternate answer. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-man-out/757277/127 "2016-06-23T04:15:56Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > No. Eisenhower was briefly on a $1 coin. Yes, but only on a coin; the rest have been (or will be) on coins and paper currency. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-man-out/757277/128 "2016-06-23T04:18:18Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > That wasn’t my intended answer at all. The ones with coins are on the right track, but no one has quite gotten it (I didn’t think it would be this hard). I love when there’s a really off-beat alternate answer. They’re all on coins; Eisenhower is the only one facing left, the others all face right. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-man-out/757277/129 "2016-06-23T04:27:27Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > They’re all on coins; Eisenhower is the only one facing left, the others all face right. That wasn’t what I had in mind either. It’s simpler than that. I could have said Washington or Jefferson instead of Lincoln. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-man-out/757277/130 "2016-06-23T08:58:57Z")
Franklin. All the others have appeared on a $1 note or coin [including Lincoln](http://www.antiquemoney.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/1899-1-Silver-Certificate-Very-Fine.jpg). Oops, that doesn’t conform with your Jefferson hint. OK, just replace “$1” above With “$1 or $2” 😛 (Or, since Jefferson appeared on a 1¢ stamp, change “$1 note or coin” to “1-unit coin, note or stamp.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-man-out/757277/131 "2016-06-23T09:11:19Z")
Actually, what I was thinking of was that Eisenhower, Anthony, and Franklin had all been put on coins, but then replaced by someone else. Lincoln was given the cent in 1909 (the first real person depicted on a US coin, FWIW) and he’s still there. Washington and Jefferson, and Franklin Roosevelt too, are still on their coins after quite a long time, although not nearly as long as Lincoln. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-man-out/757277/132 "2016-06-23T11:48:22Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Dwight Eisenhower > Susan B. Anthony > Benjamin Franklin > Abraham Lincoln > ETA: And no, it’s not that Susan B. Anthony was a woman. Benjamin Franklin CV-13 Dwight Eisenhower CVN-69 Abraham Lincoln CVN-72 Susan B. Anthony - no aircraft carrier named after her ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-man-out/757277/133 "2016-06-23T12:21:23Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Benjamin Franklin CV-13 > Dwight Eisenhower CVN-69 > Abraham Lincoln CVN-72 > Susan B. Anthony - no aircraft carrier named after her Well now that’s just sexist. If anyone deserves an aircraft carrier, it’s Anthony. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-man-out/757277/134 "2016-06-23T12:27:54Z")
I’ll give you the odd man out, rather than the whole list of fifty, and a hint. Odd man out: Ohio. Why? Hint: Sheldon Cooper would know this immediately, but it has nothing to do with physics. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-man-out/757277/135 "2016-06-23T12:46:18Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > I’ll give you the odd man out, rather than the whole list of fifty, and a hint. > Odd man out: Ohio. > Why? > Hint: Sheldon Cooper would know this immediately, but it has nothing to do with physics. All the other states have rectangular state flags. Ohio’s is a pennant, or gonfalon, or burgee-shaped, something. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-man-out/757277/136 "2016-06-23T16:20:58Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > No. Eisenhower was briefly on a $1 coin. I think you misunderstood my answer. Eisenhower was on a coin but never on a bill. Each of the others has been (or soon will have been) on _both_ bills and coins. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-man-out/757277/137 "2016-06-23T17:29:14Z")
Here’s another list with at least five solutions: Elisabeth James John Michael Robert ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-man-out/757277/138 "2016-06-23T18:31:12Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Here’s another list with at least five solutions: > > Elisabeth > James > John > Michael > Robert Robert is the only one that isn’t derived from a Hebrew name. Elisabeth is “House of Elisha”; James is Ya’acov (I don’t know how, but it is), aka Jacob; John is Yo-chanan (Grace of G-d); Michael is “Mi cha-El?” (Who is like G-d?); Robert is either Anglo-Saxon or Norman, IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-man-out/757277/139 "2016-06-23T18:52:20Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Robert is the only one that isn’t derived from a Hebrew name. 😉 That was one of the answers I had in mind. (Though I would have phrased it more ignorantly as “Biblical name.”) ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-man-out/757277/140 "2016-06-23T18:56:40Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > I thought of putting Pesach, but few non-Jews are familiar with the term, while religious Christians usually know what the other holidays are. I guess it’s the way Christian bibles are translated. That change would not have affected me — I’d never even heard of the Seven Feasts! :smack: I did remember that Purim was too recent for Beta Israel to celebrate and Googled from there. (Rosh Hashanah threw me off at first, since Wikipedia uses a completely different name for that feast.) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-man-out/757277/141 "2016-06-24T21:33:39Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Elisabeth > James > John > Michael > Robert The easy one is Elisabeth. the only one that’s primarily a female name. Harder: Michael’s the only one that hasn’t been used by a monarch who reigned over Scotland. (Though Elizabeth II was never actually queen of Scotland as a separate crown as such, and Elizabeth I was never ruler of Scotland, at all…and it’s also spelt differently, so I suspect that’s not what you’re going for)… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-man-out/757277.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-man-out/757277.md?page=8)