Braingle: 'Five Presidents' Brain Teaser

Five Presidents

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Puzzle ID:	#14600
Fun:	(2.82)
Difficulty:	(1.7)
Category:	Trivia
Submitted By:	mathemagician
Corrected By:	shenqiang

What replaces the ??? in the puzzle below?

1 Lincoln
+ 2 Jeffersons
+ 3 Roosevelts
+ 4 Washingtons
+ 5 Kennedys
_______________
???

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Comments

adoontourious Sep 13, 2003	lincoln is also on the 5 dollar bill
cbmorris901 Oct 03, 2003	I don't see money very often, but isn't Washington on the dollar bill?
PhilDunphy Oct 25, 2003	Bad teaser for anyone outside the US, and if the other 2 comments are true then it is doubly difficult due to it being incorrect
bluetwo Nov 13, 2003	not an incorrect teaser. while jefferson, lincoln, and washington appear on both paper and coin currency, kennedy and FDR, to my knowledge, were never on any paper currency. given these clues, there should be no confusion and the teaser is absolutely correct.
CocoaPuff Dec 08, 2003	Bluetwo is right. Also, the hint said U.S. COINS, so any paper currency is irrelevant.
beyonce Dec 08, 2003	I think that was a very nice teaser I could not solve it to save my life keep up the good work.
Golfman072 Dec 22, 2003	A snoozer and I'm from the US
batti_s Jan 19, 2004	even though i am an indian who has never stepped outside india, it was a good teaser for me because i have read a lot about us presidents, father-son pairs, assassinations.........and currencies. good one!!!!!!!!!!
kgirlca Jan 29, 2004	I knew it had to do with money, I just couldn't think of what had Roosevelt on it.
pupluver10 Dec 08, 2004	I REALLY LIKE THAT ONE!
GCAF Dec 08, 2004	Hey, c'mon how am I s'posed to do figure out that. I'm Greek and I live in Australia.
davee Dec 08, 2004	man that ones stupid im a kiwi (from new zealand) and how am i going to what coins you have there
dhang Dec 08, 2004	im not from u.s. and i dont have any paper bill from it thats y i dont have any idea and one thing more I hate math! sorry!
I_am_the_Omega Dec 08, 2004	Ach. I immediately thought of currency.. but I was thinking dollar bills. I was like... ok... Washington is $1.... Lincoln is $5... Jefferson is $2... eh, Rosevelt? Kennedy!? Didn't think of change
I_am_the_Omega Dec 08, 2004	Oh.. and as for those complaints about it being from the US... so what?? There are quite a number of teasers I have read that, unless you're from the UK/England, you really won't know the answer, because you won't have heard the idiom or recognize the reference.... soooo....
Tiggr Dec 08, 2004	I'm feeling like a total idiot, because all I knew is that they were all presidents and if I even put the currency idea together I still would've gotten it wrong because I don't know who's on what coin. And the sad thing is I'm from the U.S.
pianofox Dec 08, 2004	Back off, this is a great teaser!
imadinary Dec 08, 2004	pretty different but im a dummy so its all good!
Bastet Dec 08, 2004	It was apparent Mathemagician was talking about coins, since there is no paper currency with Roosevelt or Kennedy. Nice puzzle, even if very easy.
Punk_Rocker Dec 08, 2004	easy thats all im sayin...
stewartfreak20 Dec 08, 2004	Next time, use canadian money instead!!
RR24 Dec 09, 2004	Pretty difficult if you don't live in the US but not impossible if you're willing to do a little research.
markenna Dec 09, 2004	this was a very easy brainteaser and whoever thinks it was not fair for people outside of the us you much have not seen money because money transends all nations maybe different but spends the same everywhere
markenna Dec 09, 2004	this was a very easy branteaser and whoever thinks it wasn't fair for people outside the us must have not seen money because money transends all nations it spends the same everywhere.
Bastet Dec 09, 2004	No, it doesn't spend the same everywhere. Try paying your grocery bill with pesos and you'll see what I mean. Most people convert their country's currency to another's when they travel.
shm87funny Dec 09, 2004	That was a great one....
filetmerlot Dec 09, 2004	I thought the answer was 6 Eisenhower's since the numbers were just increasing by 1 and the presidents were on cosecutively larger coins. Eisenhower is on the silver dollar.
gwshark44 Dec 15, 2004	who is the current Australian Prime Minister and who appears on our 20 cent piece? This was to prove a point - i love the brainteasers, although am getting a bit sick of the US ones - you're not the only country in the world and not eveyone knows everything about your country,... alhtough we know a lot more than you would know about ours!
kcelf27 Apr 28, 2005	WHOA! I sence some tension!!! If people are tired of US trivia, then come up with your own. (If you aren't from the US that is) All it means is that there must be more USers who submit teasers. I got the idea of the answer but I didn't figure it out completely. GREAT JOB...KEEP IT UP!!!
libra0890 Apr 28, 2005	kclef is right. u need to simmer down. ~libra0890
sweetime Jun 22, 2005	gwshark44 - john howard and queen elizabeth II (and i think a platypus is on the back)...but then again, i'm from Australia my plan is just to submit a whole load of aussie based trivia, that way there's stuff that we'll actually understand
smarty_blondy Oct 01, 2005	Aweosme teaser. Got me stumped but i loved it. Keep them rollin'.
eyenowhour Dec 14, 2006	Great teaser. Stumped me.