When was decimal coinage introduced in India?
Answer: C
It was 1 April 1957.
The rupee was divided into 100 naye paise from that date, replacing the 16 annas of 4 pice each. The word naya was dropped in 1964, once people had grown used to the new reckoning.
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What is the national currency of Greenland(Denmark)?
Answer: A
It is the Danish krone.
Greenland is a self-governing part of the Kingdom of Denmark and uses the krone. Plans for a separate Greenlandic krone were abandoned in 2011.
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What is the national currency of Iraq?
Answer: B
It is the Iraqi dinar.
The dinar replaced the Indian rupee in Iraq in 1932. New notes were issued in 2003 after the fall of the Ba'athist government, replacing those bearing Saddam Hussein's portrait.
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What is the national currency of Philippines?
Answer: A
It is the Philippine peso.
The peso descends from the Spanish colonial coinage and is called piso in Filipino. It is divided into 100 sentimo.
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What is the national currency of Zimbabwe?
Answer: A
It is the United States dollar.
Zimbabwe abandoned its own dollar in 2009 after hyperinflation that reached the point of a hundred-trillion-dollar note, and adopted a basket of foreign currencies with the US dollar dominant. Later national units, including the ZiG of 2024, circulate alongside it.
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Which amongst the following is capital of Afghanistan ?
Answer: B
It is Kabul.
Kabul stands at about 1,790 m in a narrow valley of the Hindu Kush, among the highest capitals in the world. Afghani is the currency, not a city.
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What is the national currency of Afghanistan?
Answer: D
It is the Afghan afghani.
The afghani was introduced in 1925 in place of the rupee, and is divided into 100 pul. It was reissued in 2002 at a rate of 1,000 old to one new.
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What is the national currency of Spain?
Answer: B
It is the euro.
Spain was among the first eleven adopters in 1999, replacing the peseta, which had circulated since 1868 and is still occasionally quoted by older Spaniards as a mental reference.
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What is the national currency of Sri Lanka?
Answer: A
It is the Sri Lankan rupee.
The rupee replaced the rixdollar in 1872 under British rule and is divided into 100 cents. It lost about half its value against the dollar in the economic crisis of 2022.
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What is the national currency of Kenya?
Answer: B
It is the Kenyan shilling.
The shilling replaced the East African shilling in 1966 and is divided into 100 cents. It is the strongest of the East African shillings and is widely used in cross-border trade.
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