Dokimasia

💰 World Currencies

Name the money each country spends.

Continent: Europe (26) · Asia (44) · Africa (37) · North America (17) · South America (12) · Oceania (11).

Money is the most-handled artifact on Earth and the least examined. This bank counts the coin of every realm: one hundred and forty-seven questions, each naming a country and asking what it spends. The euro takes care of a continent's worth of easy marks — then the world gets specific. Denmark kept its krone; Switzerland its franc; Poland the złoty, Hungary the forint, the Czechs a koruna that is not the krone you just answered. Asia runs from yen and yuan through rupiah, ringgit and baht to the dram and the som. The Gulf splits hairs between riyal, rial and dinar — three spellings, three currencies, several sovereign prides — and Africa's thirty-seven entries range from the rand and naira to the CFA francs that bind whole regions to a common purse. A third of the bank rates hard, and deserves to: currencies are renamed, redenominated and retired more often than capitals move, and the bank keeps to the present tense. It is the subject that most rewards a habit of reading the small print on the world — banknotes, airport boards, the bottom corner of news photographs. Decoys are drawn from the same continent, so 'peso or boliviano' is always a live question. Drill your misses, keep your accuracy above ninety, and earn the right to say you know what the world is worth.