What is the national currency of Bangladesh?
Answer: A
It is the Bangladeshi taka.
The taka replaced the Pakistani rupee in 1972, the year after independence. The name comes from the Sanskrit tanka, a silver coin, and is also the Bengali word used for the Indian rupee in West Bengal.
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What is the national currency of Israel?
Answer: A
It is the Israeli new shekel.
The new shekel replaced the shekel in 1985 at a thousand to one, ending inflation that had reached over 400 per cent. The name is that of an ancient Near Eastern weight, used in the Hebrew Bible.
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Paper currency was first issued in India in
Answer: B
It was 1861.
The Paper Currency Act of 1861 gave the government of India the monopoly of note issue, ending the private banks' right to issue. The Reserve Bank took over the function in 1935.
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What is the national currency of Indonesia?
Answer: D
It is the Indonesian rupiah.
The rupiah takes its name from the same Sanskrit root as the rupee. It lost about 80 per cent of its value in the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98, which brought down Suharto's government.
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What is the national currency of Algeria?
Answer: B
It is the dinar.
The Algerian dinar replaced the franc in 1964, two years after independence. The name descends from the Roman denarius through the Arabic dinar, and is used across much of North Africa and the Middle East.
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"German" is the official language of _____.
Answer: A
It is Austria.
German is the official language of Austria, in its Austrian standard form, which differs from German German in vocabulary - 23 food terms were even written into Austria's EU accession treaty.
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Which amongst the following is currency of Thailand?
Answer: C
It is the baht.
The baht was a weight before it was a currency, and gold in Thailand is still sold by the baht of about 15 grams. Its devaluation in July 1997 began the Asian financial crisis.
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What is the national currency of Egypt?
Answer: B
It is the Egyptian pound.
The pound replaced the Egyptian piastre as the main unit in 1834 and is divided into 100 piastres. In Arabic it is the gineih, from the English guinea.
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Which is the official language of "Chile"?
Answer: D
It is Spanish.
Chilean Spanish is regarded as among the hardest varieties for other Spanish speakers to follow, for its speed, its dropped final consonants and its large stock of local slang.
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What is the national currency of Rwanda?
Answer: D
It is the Rwandan franc.
The franc dates from the Belgian administration and survived independence. Rwanda has since joined the East African Community, which has discussed a single currency without adopting one.
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