Some former NBA players are worth a lot

Look closely below for clues to two silver bars hidden somewhere in the Big Horn Basin. New clues will appear each week in April. See Big Horn Basin Treasure Hunt on Facebook for more information.

Questions:

Name all the U.S. Presidents who served during the first decade of the 21st century.

Who are the four richest former NBA players alive today?

How did a British chemist named James Smithson, who died in 1829, become famous in America?

What two cities on opposite sides of the Danube River merged in 1873?

How many pairs of chromosomes do humans have? How many do most other great apes have?

Fun Facts:

The five largest rivers that cross the Wyoming–Montana border are all flowing north: the Yellowstone, Big Horn, Tongue, Powder and Little Missouri.

Germans call their country Deutschland, but when one of their own discovered an element, he named it germanium using the Latin Germania, not Deutschland.

Most last names have evolved in spelling over time. Going back to the 16th century, there are more than eight different spellings of my German last name, Bernhisel. It continued changing even after my fifth great-grandfather was living in Pennsylvania before 1776.

Beneath the waters of Utah’s Lake Powell lies a remarkable relic: a long stone staircase carved more than 250 years ago by two Catholic priests to guide their animals safely down a steep cliff to the Colorado River.

For math fans, there are two rare two-digit numbers with a strange property: No matter how high you raise them to a power, they always end in themselves. One of them is 76. For example, 76² = 5,776 and 76³ = 438,976.

Because many early post offices operated out of private homes, roughly one-third of the founding postmasters in Big Horn Basin communities were women.

There are at least 50 locations in the Big Horn Basin that once had U.S. post offices that no longer do.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire occurred on March 25, 1911, in New York City and killed 146 garment workers, most of them young immigrant women from Italy and Eastern Europe. With exits blocked and doors locked, some workers were forced to jump from the upper floors to escape the flames.

Answers:

Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton

Michael Jordan ($4.3 billion), Magic Johnson ($1.5 billion), Junior Bridgeman ($1.4 billion), Shaquille O’Neal ($500 million)

He left his entire fortune (about $500,000) to the United States to create an institution for the “increase and diffusion of knowledge,” which became the Smithsonian Institute.

Buda and Pest became Budapest. (It is the largest city in Hungary.)

Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes. Most other great apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans) have 24 pairs.