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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What is the national currency of Norway?
Answer: D
It is the Norwegian krone.
Norway is not a member of the European Union and keeps the krone, in use since 1875. Its sovereign wealth fund, built from oil revenue, is the largest in the world.
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What is the national currency of Netherlands?
Answer: B
It is the euro.
The Netherlands was among the first eleven adopters in 1999, replacing the guilder, which had been in use since the seventeenth century and financed the Dutch trading empire.
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Which amongst the following is currency of Lebanon?
Answer: A
It is the pound.
The Lebanese pound, or lira, was introduced under the French mandate. It lost over 98 per cent of its value after 2019 in one of the worst financial collapses recorded anywhere.
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What is the national currency of Tanzania?
Answer: B
It is the Tanzanian shilling.
The shilling replaced the East African shilling in 1966 and is divided into 100 cents, though the cent has long been out of use.
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What is the national currency of Liberia?
Answer: B
It is the Liberian dollar.
Liberia was founded by freed American slaves and used the US dollar for much of its history; the Liberian dollar became the main circulating currency in 1982, though the US dollar remains legal tender alongside it.
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What is the national currency of Nigeria?
Answer: B
It is the Nigerian naira.
The naira replaced the Nigerian pound in 1973, its name a contraction of Nigeria, and is divided into 100 kobo. Nigeria was the first African country to decimalise.
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What is the national currency of Thailand?
Answer: D
It is the Thai baht.
The baht was a unit of weight before it was a currency, and gold is still traded in Thailand by the baht weight of about 15 grams. Its collapse in July 1997 set off the Asian financial crisis.
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What is the national currency of Mongolia?
Answer: A
It is the Mongolian tugrik.
The tugrik was introduced in 1925, replacing a mixture of Chinese and Russian money and even tea bricks. The word means circle or disc.
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