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Exploring the Movie 'Gold' and Historical Gold Facts

Test your knowledge about the movie 'Gold' and learn interesting facts about gold's historical significance.

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1 Who played Jonathan Drake in the movie Gold?

2 What role did Alice Day play in the movie Gold?

3 Who played Charlie in the movie Gold?

4 Who played Jack Tarrant in the movie Gold?

5 Switzerland was the last country to tie its currency to gold; it backed 40% of its value until the Swiss joined the International Monetary Fund in ________.

6 ________ still hold historical gold reserves as a store of value although the level has generally been declining.

7 The legend of the ________ may refer to the use of fleeces to trap gold dust from placer deposits in the ancient world.

8 Who played Farrell in the movie Gold?

9 What role did Hooper Atchley play in the movie Gold?

10 Since the 1880s, South Africa has been the source for a large proportion of the world’s gold supply, with about 50% of all gold ever produced having come from ________.

đź’ˇ Interesting Facts

  • the Byzantine court title of protospatharios had such high prestige that an aged cleric once purchased it for over 19 kilograms (42 lb) of gold.
  • the short story "The Congress" by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges was published in a deluxe edition with the letters made of gold.
  • the Texas industrialist Jack Crichton was involved in the mining of gold, silver, nickel, copper, and zinc as well as the production of oil and natural gas.
  • the American Buffalo gold bullion coin will be the first .9999 fine 24-karat gold coin released by the United States Mint.
  • no piece of goldwork embroidery has ever actually used pure gold.
  • more than 13.5 tonnes of gold were extracted in 13 months at Poverty Reef, near the Australian town of Tarnagulla, Victoria (pictured) from an area only 3 metres wide and 120 metres deep.
  • due to Claude de Bernales' marketing of the gold fields of Western Australia in the 1930s, production increased sevenfold and employment in the industry quadrupled.
  • during the Mexican-American War, Ygnacio del Valle destroyed a gold mine on his property to prevent the Americans from gaining access to it.
  • in gold mining, cyanide may be used to extract gold in areas where gold-bearing rocks are found at the surface.
  • the Council House in Bristol, England features a blue and gold wall clock, encircled by the signs of the zodiac and equipped with its own wind indicator.
  • the Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mine is the largest current producer of gold in Colorado.
  • the period from 1999 to 2002 in Britain, when gold prices were the lowest for 20 years, has been dubbed as the Brown Bottom.
  • the world's most expensive ice cream treat, the Golden Opulence Sundae, is covered in gold.
  • upon its discovery, the Newark Torc was called "probably the most significant find of Iron Age Celtic gold jewellery made in the last 50 years".
  • the missing terminal of the golden Sedgeford Torc was found thirty-nine years after the original discovery of the artifact.
  • the first documented discovery of gold in California was at Rancho San Francisco in 1842, six years before the California Gold Rush.
  • the Mold cape (pictured) is a solid sheet-gold cape found in 1833 over the upper body of a male skeleton in a Bronze Age burial mound at Mold in Flintshire, North Wales.
  • the Perth Mint is the oldest operating mint in Australia and that it has produced over 4,500 tonnes of refined gold which represents about 3.25 percent of the total tonnage of gold ever produced.
  • the Nephila genus of long-jawed orb weaver family of spiders spins gold-colored webs.
  • before building his first railroad steam locomotive, in 1832, Matthias W. Baldwin was apprenticed as a jeweler and devised and patented a method for applying gold plating.
  • although there is no commercial mining in Equatorial Guinea, 200 kilograms (440 pounds) of gold were retrieved in 2006.
  • Billfrith, the Northumbrian saint whose name appears in the Durham Liber Vitae, is credited with providing the original gold, silver and jewel ornamentation for the Lindisfarne Gospels.
  • chryselephantine sculptures (fragments pictured) were monumental statues made of gold and ivory that depicted the gods in Ancient Greek temples.
  • Mooers House (pictured), an example of West Coast Victorian architecture, is named for its owner who struck gold after years of prospecting in the Mojave Desert.
  • Ukrainian naturalist, lecturer, artist and author John Lhotsky was credited as the first discoverer of gold in New South Wales.
  • prospector Reuben D'Aigle missed finding a huge gold deposit by only a few feet, and his boot print was found pressed into the vein when the Porcupine Gold Rush started in 1909.
  • California's Gold Country quartz-mining industry was precipitated by a quartz gold discovery on Gold Hill.
  • Indiana's Morgan-Monroe State Forest features gold panning.
  • Mongolian Ninja miners are so named because the green bowls they carry on their backs for gold panning resemble the shells of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
  • gold parting refers to the separation of gold and silver.
  • Jules Porgès was a financier central to the rise of the Randlords who controlled the diamond and gold mining industries in South Africa from the 1870s.
  • William Henry Wright and his brother-in-law were hunting rabbits when they stumbled upon a quartz outcropping that eventually would yield 13.5 million ounces of gold.
  • David Booth found the Stirlingshire Hoard of four gold Iron Age torcs on his very first metal detecting outing.
  • Henry Willard purchased the Willard Hotel with gold coins because the U.S. Supreme Court told him to.
  • William Campbell was the first acknowledged discoverer of gold in the Australian state of Victoria in 1850, but kept his discovery secret for fear a gold rush would disrupt his pastoral interests.
  • Tokugawa coinage (pictured) in Medieval Japan used a triple monetary standard, with gold, silver and bronze coins, each with their own denominations.
  • Kobyaysky Ulus in the middle of the Sakha Republic of Russia has notable gold and silver reserves.
  • Matt Brown, from Idalou, Texas, won the gold medal for discus with a prosthetic leg at the 2008 Parapan American Games in Rio de Janeiro.
  • Rancho Las Mariposas, unwanted by John C. FrĂ©mont until gold was discovered in September 1849, turned out to be the richest rancho in California.
  • alchemist James Price committed suicide by drinking prussic acid after being challenged to prove he could turn mercury into gold.
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