What is the national currency of Romania?
Answer: B
It is the Romanian leu.
Leu means lion, from the Dutch lion thalers that circulated in the principalities. The currency was redenominated in 2005 at ten thousand to one.
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What is the national currency of Cuba?
Answer: A
It is the Cuban peso.
Cuba ran two currencies for a quarter century - the peso and the convertible peso for tourists and foreign trade - until unification in 2021 left the peso alone.
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What is the national currency of Taiwan?
Answer: C
It is the New Taiwan dollar.
It replaced the old Taiwan dollar in 1949 at forty thousand to one, at the end of the hyperinflation that accompanied the Nationalist retreat to the island.
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What is the currency of United Kingdom?
Answer: D
It is pound sterling.
Sterling is the oldest currency still in use. The United Kingdom kept it when the euro was introduced, having negotiated an opt-out at Maastricht.
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What is the national currency of South Korea?
Answer: A
It is the South Korean won.
The won was reintroduced in 1962 at ten hwan to one. It has no subdivision in practice, the jeon having become worthless, and the smallest circulating coin is ten won.
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What is the national currency of Hong Kong?
Answer: C
It is the Hong Kong dollar.
The Hong Kong dollar is pegged to the US dollar in a band around 7.80 and is issued not by the central bank but by three commercial banks, each printing its own designs.
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What is the national currency of Japan?
Answer: A
It is the Japanese yen.
The yen was adopted in 1871 in the Meiji reforms, replacing a complex feudal system of coinage. The word means round object, and the same character gives the Chinese yuan and Korean won.
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What is the national currency of Poland?
Answer: D
It is the Polish zloty.
Zloty means golden, and the currency dates in name from the Middle Ages. Poland is obliged by its accession treaty to adopt the euro eventually but has set no date.
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What is the national currency of Greece?
Answer: C
It is the euro.
Greece adopted the euro in 2001, two years after the first wave, replacing the drachma - a name in use since antiquity and among the oldest currency names in the world.
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What is the national currency of Myanmar?
Answer: A
It is the Myanmar kyat.
The kyat, which was also a traditional unit of weight, returned as the currency in 1952. Its 1987 demonetisation of most notes, without compensation, was among the causes of the uprising the following year.
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