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).
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; 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.
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.
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.
Yes, but only on a coin; the rest have been (or will be) on coins and paper currency.
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.
Franklin. All the others have appeared on a $1 note or coin including Lincoln.
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.” ![]()
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
That was one of the answers I had in mind. (Though I would have phrased it more ignorantly as “Biblical name.”)
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.)
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)…