It's silly but in English they are used like this ... In my language all etymologically related currencies have one spelling / translation (except dollar/tolar)
I can see YUAN/WON/YEN being different since they're pronounced quite differently, though I can also see the case for making them give each other. I can also see Brazilian REAL and RIAL being distinct. But there's really no damn reason for RIYAL and RIAL not to give each other. Same word, same language, just different transliteration. Kronor and Kroner seem to be identically pronounced as well.
got 26 and only got 1 point. If only I hadn't forgotten franc (had forgotten a few more I knew, well enough to be able to produce it, in theory, but that one was the most obvious and ofcourse would have gotten the most answers). Then I would have been at 47 and above average ( which is currently 35).
That would feel as quite a big achievement, as it is in no way my field. Though it is more interesting to me than sports or politics. So who knows I might get around to learning the ones I missed. (atleast the ones in europe and south america and perhaps oceania since it was only a few)
This might be the Quizmaster quiz with the least forgiving spelling. I at first thought that currencies that were clearly identical in all but spelling to count for each other. For example, I don't expect RIAL to give me Brazil's REAL, but I was very frustrated that I did not get RIYAL, especially since I got stuck on what currency the Saudi's used (since I was sure it was a rial--as it is). Oman and Saudi both use Arabic, both use an identical Arabic word, and each could plausibly be transliterated with the other's form. But this quiz doesn't grant it. I felt similarly about Kroner/Kronor. The quiz is about whether you know currencies, not whether you know transliterations.
We have to be somewhat strict on this one because there are so many currencies with similar names. If we were lenient, typing one would get you several.
why's that a bad thing, though? Typing in dollar or shilling or euro gets you a bunch. You don't have to go through and type "US dollar," "Canadan dollar," etc... even though these are completely different currencies... and even though that is basically what you're requiring people to do with riyals, crowns, rupees, denars, and yuan, spelled different ways in different countries or different languages.
Maybe Quizmaster hasn't had a chance to check the comments under this quiz for awhile, but the 5 people who commented that El Salvador got rid of the colón and replaced it with the US dollar in 2001, a year after Ecuador did the same thing with the sucre, are right.
Out of all things related to geography, official currencies are certainly not the most difficult to study. Studying capitals, second largest cities, and official languages requires much more effort and most JetPunkers have those all mastered like the back of their hands!
I've always wondered -- why are the Marshall Islands listed as having a currency of "None", while the Federated States of Micronesia are listed as "Dollar"? The two countries are in exactly the same position of using the US Dollar as their currency. To be consistent with the rest of the quiz (e.g. El Salvador, East Timor etc.), I would think that Micronesia should also be listed as "None".
Maybe it's official in Marshall Islands and only de facto in Micronesia? I'm not sure about this, but I was also a bit confused by the "nones" on this quiz.
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I saw an earlier comment that was never answered. Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Palau etc. all use the US dollar in exactly the same manner. But on this quiz, the Marshall Islands show "None" as the currency, the others have "Dollar". Shouldn't this be done consistently?
Interesting. Bitcoin may not be the currency of El Salvador but the quiz title has "currencies used by the different countries of the world". Doesn't Bitcoin (and USD) count as "currencies used"?
Could end up being a bit of a nightmare to maintain as and when more countries accept crypto though!
There seems to be a glitch with the stats. I got 15 correct (slightly embarasing but anyway...). It says that I had the same or better score as 62.6% of test takers, but also that the average score is 19.
Well, having a world coin collection pays off for this one, 79/79, had a hard time remembering the Nakfa, Dalasi and the Gourde (I only have Eritrean Cents, Gambian Bututs and Haitian Centimes) and of course, the correct spelling of Ngultrum.
It would be cool if the scoring was based on the number of countries that use a currency, rather than one point per currency. That way when you guess a popular currency you get more points. It makes the game more interesting.
Can it be made so that the quiz also accepts ZiG for Zimbabwe's new currency? The currency itself backed by gold but they used paper banknotes and coins. Right now it just looks like the currency IS gold on the quiz.
That would feel as quite a big achievement, as it is in no way my field. Though it is more interesting to me than sports or politics. So who knows I might get around to learning the ones I missed. (atleast the ones in europe and south america and perhaps oceania since it was only a few)
Could end up being a bit of a nightmare to maintain as and when more countries accept crypto though!
Also overlooked Malaysia and had some blackout at South Africa.
dong for vietnam
mark for bosnia & herzegovina
bolivar for venezuela and boliviano for bolivia
not to mention real, rial, riel and riyal