Statistics for World Currencies - Multiple Choice

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Question	Answer	% Correct
What was Germany's currency before it adopted the euro?	mark	84%
A euro is divided into 100... what?	cents	80%
The won is used only by South Korea and what other country?	North Korea	80%
Which currency is named after its country's national bird?	Guatemalan quetzal	76%
What is the currency in Northern Cyprus?	Turkish lira	69%
Which country's dollar is nicknamed a "loonie"?	Canada	64%
Which of these currencies have not been replaced by the euro?	Croatian kuna	62%
Which country uses a "peso"?	Argentina	60%
Which country uses the tala - a transliteration of "dollar" into its own language?	Samoa	56%
What is the currency unit of Egypt?	pound	49%
When did United States adopt the dollar as its currency unit?	1792	42%
What is the world's 3rd most popular reserve currency, behind the US dollar and the euro?	Japanese yen	33%
What currency unit did Israel replace with the shekel in 1980?	pound	29%
India uses the rupee - which of its neighbours not also have the rupee as its currency?	Bangladesh	22%
Which currency is pegged in value to the US dollar?	Cuban convertible peso	22%