Are you sure that the stats only record first attempts? The averages for most quizzes are constantly getting higher, so I would assume that all attempts count.
george: the reason that the scores get higher is usually because when a quiz gets featured on the front page, it gets taken by everyone who visits the site regularly including many casual quiz takers and people not familiar with the subject of the quiz. This lowers the average. After it rotates off the front page, the quiz is only taken by hardcore quiz junkies who go searching for it. Yes, I'm sure it only factors in your first attempt.
I don't know about tacos but dollars come from tollars which we used here in Bohemia about 400 years ago. 1 tollar was 2 "zlatý" (golden), but nowadays 4 (Polish) zlotys equal one dollar
Some alternate spellings for Hryvnia (might explain partially why its guessed % is so low): Hryvna, Hryvnya, Grivna. I kept trying the first one, that's what shows up on my xe.com world currency converter app.
Argh! I've been to Malaysia in the past but for the life of me I couldn't remember ringgit! And I should definitely have remembered rial, krona and dirham. I actually typed "dirhan" several times because it rang a bell - I was right, just a letter off ;)
Latvia (for a while now) and Lithuania (as of 1/1/15) use the euro, having dropped their original currencies. You should probably date the quiz (with an "as of" at the top).
I think Kosovo and Montenegro should be listed as "none" since they unilaterally adopted Euro (like Ecuador or East Timor did with US Dollar): only Andorra, Monaco, San Marino and Vatican City legally adopted Euro while being outside EU.
I hardly know any of these, but due to randomly reading about Mauritania, I knew the Ouguyia. I didn't get anyother hard ones, unless you count the dong.
My spelling let me down, though 'rouble' is the way we spelt the Soviet currency here in UK when I was young, and I'd have thought allowing this spelling would not be too extreme. Is there any chance you might relent on this issue?
I've been to Kosovo a couple times lately. Not the most out of the way place I've been. It was actually nicer than I was expecting. I just wish I had gone via Albania instead of Serbia. Would have been great if I'd never gone to Serbia at all, for that matter.
As an Arabic speaker, I can tell you for sure that there's certainly no difference between Riyal and Rial. The english translation is misleading; they're written and pronounced the same way in Arabic and Farsi and we usually distinguish by saying Saudi Riyal or Omani Riyal, etc.
I think they should be accepted as the same currency. I was surprised to see Oman and other countries missing in the states, because I didn't imagine that there were spellings other than Riyal.
I'm not an English speaker, but I was coming here to ask about this point. My admittedly untrained ear certainly couldn't hear the difference in reference to these currencies. Just a matter of transliteration, I guess. I wonder if it's the same for the Macedonian Denar - although there, at least, a different language is involved.
Can you please put the dollar answers to be more specific? Keep dollar as the type in, but show what type of dollar each country uses. E.g. Australia - Australian Dollar, NZ - New Zealand Dollar, US and countless others - US Dollar
Agreed, as incredible as it may sound I am conviced that there are people leaving this quiz conviced that many countries use the us dollar. (Same thing goes for franc and others)
It's silly but in English they are used like this ... In my language all etymologically related currencies have one spelling / translation (except dollar/tolar)
I can see YUAN/WON/YEN being different since they're pronounced quite differently, though I can also see the case for making them give each other. I can also see Brazilian REAL and RIAL being distinct. But there's really no damn reason for RIYAL and RIAL not to give each other. Same word, same language, just different transliteration. Kronor and Kroner seem to be identically pronounced as well.
This might be the Quizmaster quiz with the least forgiving spelling. I at first thought that currencies that were clearly identical in all but spelling to count for each other. For example, I don't expect RIAL to give me Brazil's REAL, but I was very frustrated that I did not get RIYAL, especially since I got stuck on what currency the Saudi's used (since I was sure it was a rial--as it is). Oman and Saudi both use Arabic, both use an identical Arabic word, and each could plausibly be transliterated with the other's form. But this quiz doesn't grant it. I felt similarly about Kroner/Kronor. The quiz is about whether you know currencies, not whether you know transliterations.
We have to be somewhat strict on this one because there are so many currencies with similar names. If we were lenient, typing one would get you several.
why's that a bad thing, though? Typing in dollar or shilling or euro gets you a bunch. You don't have to go through and type "US dollar," "Canadan dollar," etc... even though these are completely different currencies... and even though that is basically what you're requiring people to do with riyals, crowns, rupees, denars, and yuan, spelled different ways in different countries or different languages.
Maybe Quizmaster hasn't had a chance to check the comments under this quiz for awhile, but the 5 people who commented that El Salvador got rid of the colón and replaced it with the US dollar in 2001, a year after Ecuador did the same thing with the sucre, are right.
Out of all things related to geography, official currencies are certainly not the most difficult to study. Studying capitals, second largest cities, and official languages requires much more effort and most JetPunkers have those all mastered like the back of their hands!
I've always wondered -- why are the Marshall Islands listed as having a currency of "None", while the Federated States of Micronesia are listed as "Dollar"? The two countries are in exactly the same position of using the US Dollar as their currency. To be consistent with the rest of the quiz (e.g. El Salvador, East Timor etc.), I would think that Micronesia should also be listed as "None".
Maybe it's official in Marshall Islands and only de facto in Micronesia? I'm not sure about this, but I was also a bit confused by the "nones" on this quiz.
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I saw an earlier comment that was never answered. Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Palau etc. all use the US dollar in exactly the same manner. But on this quiz, the Marshall Islands show "None" as the currency, the others have "Dollar". Shouldn't this be done consistently?
Interesting. Bitcoin may not be the currency of El Salvador but the quiz title has "currencies used by the different countries of the world". Doesn't Bitcoin (and USD) count as "currencies used"?
Could end up being a bit of a nightmare to maintain as and when more countries accept crypto though!
If someone does this quiz over and over eventually they remember it all, that's how I learned every country and every capital in the world, I just did the quizzes hundreds of times no cheating necessary unless memory is cheating
There seems to be a glitch with the stats. I got 15 correct (slightly embarasing but anyway...). It says that I had the same or better score as 62.6% of test takers, but also that the average score is 19.
Well, having a world coin collection pays off for this one, 79/79, had a hard time remembering the Nakfa, Dalasi and the Gourde (I only have Eritrean Cents, Gambian Bututs and Haitian Centimes) and of course, the correct spelling of Ngultrum.
It would be cool if the scoring was based on the number of countries that use a currency, rather than one point per currency. That way when you guess a popular currency you get more points. It makes the game more interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3REwSZ0A8SI
by cheating of course!
just for them points you know
i didn't get panama though?
I think they use US dollar in El Salvador
I think Kosovo and Montenegro should be listed as "none" since they unilaterally adopted Euro (like Ecuador or East Timor did with US Dollar): only Andorra, Monaco, San Marino and Vatican City legally adopted Euro while being outside EU.
I think they should be accepted as the same currency. I was surprised to see Oman and other countries missing in the states, because I didn't imagine that there were spellings other than Riyal.
Could end up being a bit of a nightmare to maintain as and when more countries accept crypto though!
Also overlooked Malaysia and had some blackout at South Africa.
dong for vietnam
mark for bosnia & herzegovina
bolivar for venezuela and boliviano for bolivia
not to mention real, rial, riel and riyal