What is the national currency of Turkey?
Answer: A
It is the Turkish lira.
The lira was redenominated in 2005 at a million to one, ending a period when a loaf of bread cost hundreds of thousands. Its symbol, adopted in 2012, was chosen by public competition.
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In India the RBI began production of notes in 1938, issuing 2, 5, 10, 1000 notes. 500 note was re-introduced again in-
Answer: C
It was 1987.
The 500-rupee note returned in October 1987, the highest denomination then in circulation, after inflation had made the existing notes inconvenient for large payments.
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What is the national currency of Italy?
Answer: C
It is the euro.
Italy adopted the euro in 1999 in place of the lira, which had circulated since 1861 and by then required about 1,936 to the euro - among the largest conversion factors of any member.
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What is the national currency of Brazil?
Answer: B
It is the Brazilian real.
The real was introduced in 1994 under the Plano Real, which ended hyperinflation running at over 2,000 per cent a year. Its plural is reais, and it takes its name from the colonial Portuguese real.
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What is the national currency of China?
Answer: A
It is the Chinese yuan.
The currency is the renminbi, the people's currency, and the yuan is its unit - the same distinction as sterling and the pound. It has been in the IMF's Special Drawing Rights basket since 2016.
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What is the national currency of Colombia?
Answer: D
It is the Colombian peso.
The peso replaced the real in 1837. Colombia is one of about twenty countries that use the peso, a name that simply means weight, from the Spanish piece of eight.
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What is the national currency of Switzerland?
Answer: A
It is the Swiss franc.
The franc is treated as a safe-haven currency, so it rises in crises - which is why the Swiss National Bank capped it against the euro from 2011 to 2015. It is the only franc still used in western Europe.
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What is the national currency of North Korea?
Answer: B
It is the North Korean won.
The won was redenominated in 2009 at a hundred to one, with strict limits on how much anyone could exchange - a measure aimed at private traders that wiped out savings and provoked rare public protest.
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What is the national currency of Qatar?
Answer: A
It is the Qatari riyal.
The riyal replaced the Qatar and Dubai riyal in 1973, after Dubai joined the United Arab Emirates. It is pegged to the US dollar at 3.64 and divided into 100 dirhams.
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What is the national currency of South Africa?
Answer: C
It is the South African rand.
The rand replaced the South African pound in 1961 and is named after the Witwatersrand, the ridge where the gold was found. It is also legal tender in Lesotho, Eswatini and Namibia.
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