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Q. What is the money used in Korea called?
Options: The won · The dollar · The euro · The yen
Answer: The won
Korea's money is the won.
Q. Which money is used in the United States?
Options: The dollar · The euro · The yen · The pound
Answer: The dollar
American money is the dollar ($).
Q. Which money is used in Japan?
Options: The dollar · The yen · The won · The yuan
Answer: The yen
Japanese money is the yen (¥).
Q. Which money do many European countries share?
Options: The euro · The franc · The pound · The dollar
Answer: The euro
Many European Union countries share the euro (€).
Q. Which language is mostly spoken in Brazil?
Options: Spanish · English · French · Portuguese
Answer: Portuguese
Most of South America speaks Spanish, but Brazil speaks Portuguese!
Q. Which language is an official language in the most countries?
Options: English · Russian · Chinese · Korean
Answer: English
English is used as an official language all over the world.
💷 Q. What is the money used in Britain called?
Options: The pound · The dollar · The euro · The yen
Answer: The pound
Britain's pound!
💴 Q. What is the money used in China called?
Options: The yuan · The rupee · The won · The yen
Answer: The yuan
China's yuan (renminbi)!
💰 Q. What is the money used in India called?
Options: The peso · The dollar · The yuan · The rupee
Answer: The rupee
India's rupee!
💰 Q. What is the money used in Russia called?
Options: The ruble · The euro · The yuan · The dollar
Answer: The ruble
Russia's ruble!
💰 Q. What is the money used in Thailand called?
Options: The ringgit · The baht · The rupee · The dong
Answer: The baht
Thailand's baht!
💰 Q. What is the money used in Vietnam called?
Options: The ringgit · The dong · The peso · The baht
Answer: The dong
Vietnam's dong!
💰 Q. What is the money used in Mexico, the Philippines, and other countries called?
Options: The euro · The rupee · The peso · The yen
Answer: The peso
The peso, used by several countries!
💰 Q. What is the money used in Switzerland called?
Options: The pound · The dollar · The franc (the Swiss franc) · The euro
Answer: The franc (the Swiss franc)
Switzerland doesn't use the euro — it uses the franc!
💰 Q. What is the money widely used in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East called?
Options: The dollar · The yen · The riyal · The euro
Answer: The riyal
The riyal. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman and others use it, and even with the same name, it's worth a different amount in each country.
💰 Q. What is the money used in North Korea called?
Options: The yen · The won (the North Korean won) · The dollar · The yuan
Answer: The won (the North Korean won)
It's called the 'won' too, but it's a different currency from South Korea's.
💵 Q. Which person is on the $100 bill, the largest US bill in everyday use?
Options: Lincoln · Washington · Benjamin Franklin · Jefferson
Answer: Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin is on the $100 bill! He was never a president.
💵 Q. Which person is on the $1 bill?
Options: Lincoln · Franklin · Jefferson · Washington
Answer: Washington
George Washington, the first president, is on the $1 bill!
💵 Q. Which person is on the $5 bill?
Options: Washington · Jefferson · Lincoln · Franklin
Answer: Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln is on the $5 bill!
💵 Q. Which person is on the $10 bill?
Options: Washington · Alexander Hamilton · Lincoln · Franklin
Answer: Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton is on the $10 bill. He wasn't a president either!
🪙 Q. Which person is on the penny (1 cent) coin?
Options: Franklin · Washington · Lincoln · Jefferson
Answer: Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln is on the penny!
🪙 Q. Which bird is on the back of the quarter and on the Great Seal of the United States?
Options: An eagle · A tiger · A turtle · A swallow
Answer: An eagle
The bald eagle, the national bird of the United States!
🪙 Q. Which building is on the back of the nickel (5 cents) coin?
Options: The Statue of Liberty · The White House · The Lincoln Memorial · Monticello
Answer: Monticello
Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's house, is on the back of the nickel!
🇰🇷 Q. Which country uses the won?
Options: China · Japan · The United States · Korea
Answer: Korea
The Korean won!
💵 Q. Which is closest to why money has people and landmarks on it?
Options: Only to look pretty · To make it heavier · To honor the things a country is proud of · For no reason
Answer: To honor the things a country is proud of
It honors great people and treasures!
💷 Q. Which European country does NOT use the euro?
Options: Germany · Italy · France · Britain
Answer: Britain
Britain. Even back when it was in the European Union, it kept using the pound, which is over 300 years old.
💵 Q. The USA, Australia, and Canada all use money with the same name, but each one is different. What is it called?
Options: The dollar · The pound · The euro · The peso
Answer: The dollar
The US dollar, the Australian dollar, and the Canadian dollar!
💰 Q. What do you call the thing you pay with when you buy and sell?
Options: Stones · Toys · Money (currency) · Paper
Answer: Money (currency)
We buy and sell with money!
🔄 Q. What do you call swapping goods for each other instead of using money, like in the old days?
Options: Saving · Donating · Bartering · Shopping
Answer: Bartering
Trading rice for cloth — that's bartering!
🪙 Q. What shape were the old coins used in East Asia long ago?
Options: Seashells · A coin with a square hole in the middle · Only paper money · A square card
Answer: A coin with a square hole in the middle
They had a square hole in the middle, so you could string them together on a cord!
🐷 Q. What do you call keeping money instead of spending it?
Options: Shopping · Wasting · A present · Saving
Answer: Saving
Saving in a piggy bank!
🏦 Q. What's good about keeping your money in a bank?
Options: It gets heavier · It changes color · The money disappears · It's kept safe and you get interest
Answer: It's kept safe and you get interest
It's stored safely, and you get a little interest too!
💳 Q. What do you call paying with a card or a smartphone?
Options: Donating · Bartering · Electronic payment (card or pay app) · Saving
Answer: Electronic payment (card or pay app)
These days it's cards and tap-to-pay!
💱 Q. Where do you swap one country's money for another's?
Options: A bakery · A stationery shop · A playground · A currency exchange (a bank)
Answer: A currency exchange (a bank)
You exchange money before a trip!
💱 Q. If you change 1 US dollar into euros, about how much do you get?
Options: 100 euros · 10,000 euros · A little under 1 euro · 1,000 euros
Answer: A little under 1 euro
It depends on the exchange rate! Roughly a bit under 1 euro.
💰 Q. What's a good habit for treating money carefully?
Options: Spending carefully on what you need · Losing it · Spending it all · Tearing it up
Answer: Spending carefully on what you need
Make a plan and spend carefully!
🧮 Q. You buy something for $5 at a shop and pay with $10. What's your change?
Options: $5 · $1 · None · $10
Answer: $5
$10 − $5 = $5!
💵 Q. What is an 'allowance'?
Options: Money you're given to spend · Money you borrowed · Money you lost · Tax you paid
Answer: Money you're given to spend
Spend it carefully and you can save some too!
🏛️ Q. What is tax?
Options: Only a fine · A present · Money we pay to run the country · Pocket money
Answer: Money we pay to run the country
Taxes build schools and roads!
🇬🇧 Q. Which language do people in the USA, Britain, and Australia mostly speak?
Options: German · English · Chinese · French
Answer: English
English, spoken far and wide!
🇨🇳 Q. Which language is mostly spoken in China?
Options: Thai · Chinese · Japanese · Korean
Answer: Chinese
Chinese, written with Chinese characters!
🇯🇵 Q. Which language is mostly spoken in Japan?
Options: Japanese · Korean · Chinese · English
Answer: Japanese
Japanese, written with kana!
🇫🇷 Q. Which language is mostly spoken in France?
Options: French · English · Spanish · German
Answer: French
French, the language of the country of art!
🇩🇪 Q. Which language is mostly spoken in Germany?
Options: English · French · Dutch · German
Answer: German
German. It's spoken in Austria and parts of Switzerland too, and it's famous for sticking words together to make very long ones.
🇪🇸 Q. Which language is mostly spoken in Spain, Mexico, and Argentina?
Options: Portuguese · Spanish · English · French
Answer: Spanish
Lots of Latin American countries speak Spanish!
🇷🇺 Q. Which language is mostly spoken in Russia?
Options: German · English · Russian · Chinese
Answer: Russian
Russian, written in the Cyrillic alphabet!
🇸🇦 Q. Which language is mostly spoken in Egypt and Saudi Arabia?
Options: French · Arabic · Hindi · English
Answer: Arabic
Arabic, which is written from right to left!
🇮🇳 Q. Which is one of the widely spoken languages of India?
Options: Hindi · Thai · Japanese · Korean
Answer: Hindi
Hindi. India has more than 20 official languages, and a single banknote has several of them printed side by side.
🇮🇹 Q. Which language is mostly spoken in Italy?
Options: Spanish · English · French · Italian
Answer: Italian
Italian, famous for its musical terms!
🇰🇷 Q. Which language and writing system are used in Korea?
Options: Korean and Hangul · Chinese and Chinese characters · English and the alphabet · Japanese and kana
Answer: Korean and Hangul
Hangul, created by King Sejong!
🗣️ Q. Which language has the most native speakers in the world?
Options: Chinese · Finnish · Korean · Thai
Answer: Chinese
With such a big population, Chinese has the most speakers!
🌍 Q. Which language is used as an official or international language in the most countries?
Options: Japanese · English · Vietnamese · Korean
Answer: English
English is used almost like a world language!
📜 Q. Who created Hangul, the Korean writing system?
Options: Confucius · Genghis Khan · Marco Polo · King Sejong
Answer: King Sejong
King Sejong created it for ordinary people.
📜 Q. Why do scholars around the world praise Hangul?
Options: It's old · It has lots of letters · It's picture-based · It's scientific and easy to learn
Answer: It's scientific and easy to learn
It's the only writing system whose inventors wrote down how they designed it!
✍️ Q. Which writing is written from right to left?
Options: Arabic · Japanese · Hangul · English
Answer: Arabic
Arabic. Because it's written right to left, you turn the pages of a book from the other side too.
🈶 Q. Which writing shows meaning with pictures?
Options: Numbers · The alphabet · Chinese characters and Egyptian hieroglyphs · Hangul
Answer: Chinese characters and Egyptian hieroglyphs
Meaning-writing that started out as pictures!
🔤 Q. Which writing records sounds just as they are?
Options: Picture writing · Chinese characters · Hangul and the alphabet · Hieroglyphs
Answer: Hangul and the alphabet
Hangul and the alphabet write down sounds!
🗣️ Q. Who helps when people from different countries meet and can't understand each other?
Options: A driver · A cook · An interpreter · A doctor
Answer: An interpreter
An interpreter carries the words across!
📚 Q. What do you call turning writing into another country's language?
Options: Translation · Cooking · Cleaning · Driving
Answer: Translation
Books get translated so lots of countries can read them!
👋 Q. Which of these is a greeting rather than a thank-you?
Options: Hola · Danke · Merci · Arigato
Answer: Hola
'Hola' is Spanish for hello! The others all mean thank you.
🙏 Q. Which of these do you say to thank someone in English?
Options: Goodbye · Sorry · Please · Thank you
Answer: Thank you
'Thank you' says thanks!
🇫🇷 Q. How do you say 'thank you' in French?
Options: Arigato · Danke · Gracias · Merci
Answer: Merci
Merci!
🇯🇵 Q. How do you say 'thank you' in Japanese?
Options: Gracias · Merci · Danke · Arigato
Answer: Arigato
Arigato. To be more polite, you say 'arigato gozaimasu'.
🇪🇸 Q. How do you say 'thank you' in Spanish?
Options: Arigato · Merci · Danke · Gracias
Answer: Gracias
Gracias. It works not just in Spain but across Latin America, making it one of the most widely used thank-yous in the world.
🇨🇳 Q. How do you say 'hello' in Chinese?
Options: Hello · Bonjour · Konnichiwa · Ni hao
Answer: Ni hao
Ni hao. In Chinese characters it's '你好', which literally asks 'are you well?'
🌍 Q. What's good about learning other countries' languages?
Options: You can talk with people from other countries · You get stronger · You get faster · You get taller
Answer: You can talk with people from other countries
The power to connect with the world!
🌍 Q. Which is one of the continents said to have the most languages?
Options: Africa · Only Europe · Antarctica · Only Australia
Answer: Africa
Africa, with thousands of languages!
⠿ Q. Who is braille writing for?
Options: People who can't hear well · People who can't walk well · People who can't see well · All grown-ups
Answer: People who can't see well
Braille is read with your fingertips!
🤟 Q. What do you speak sign language with?
Options: Your hands and your face · Your feet · Letters · Your voice
Answer: Your hands and your face
You talk with hand shapes and expressions!
📖 Q. What does a country's 'national language' mean?
Options: Animal language · The country's main language · A foreign language · Only old-fashioned words
Answer: The country's main language
Korea's national language is Korean; in the USA, most people speak English.
🗣️ Q. What do you call speech that differs a little from region to region inside one country?
Options: Only the standard language · Braille · A foreign language · A dialect
Answer: A dialect
Southern, New England, and Midwestern ways of speaking!
📢 Q. What do you call the agreed form of a language that everyone takes as the standard?
Options: A foreign language · Slang · A dialect · The standard language
Answer: The standard language
The standard language of broadcasts and textbooks!
💴 Q. Which country and currency are matched up wrongly?
Options: Japan – the dollar · Britain – the pound · Korea – the won · The USA – the dollar
Answer: Japan – the dollar
Japan uses the yen!
🇧🇷 Q. Which country and language are matched up wrongly?
Options: China – Chinese · Brazil – Spanish · Germany – German · France – French
Answer: Brazil – Spanish
Brazil speaks Portuguese!
✈️ Q. What's good about learning a little of the language before you travel somewhere?
Options: You get money · You can greet local people warmly · The plane goes faster · Your bags get lighter
Answer: You can greet local people warmly
The power of a single 'ni hao'!
🔢 Q. Which words do we use in English for big amounts of money?
Options: Liters and kilos · Dozens · Thousand, million, billion · Centimeters
Answer: Thousand, million, billion
A thousand dollars, a million dollars, a billion dollars!
🧾 Q. What's good about getting a receipt when you buy something?
Options: You can check what you bought and exchange it · It changes color · You get money · It gets heavier
Answer: You can check what you bought and exchange it
A receipt is proof of your purchase!
💵 Q. Between coins and bills, which is mostly used for bigger amounts?
Options: They're the same · Bills · Neither · Coins
Answer: Bills
Big money is bills, small change is coins!
🤝 Q. What do you call talking the price down when you buy something?
Options: Donating · Haggling · Saving · Exchanging money
Answer: Haggling
Haggling at the market!
❤️ Q. What do you call sharing money or things with poor people or places in need?
Options: Haggling · Saving · Wasting · Donating
Answer: Donating
Donating — warm-hearted sharing!
🐚 Q. Long, long ago, before there was money, did anywhere use seashells as money?
Options: Yes, they did · No, never
Answer: Yes, they did
Long ago, shells and salt worked as money too!
📔 Q. What do you write in a household account book?
Options: A diary · Homework · What money came in and went out · Friends' names
Answer: What money came in and went out
The first step in managing money!
📊 Q. What is a 'budget'?
Options: A plan you set in advance for the money you'll spend · Money you borrowed · Money you've spent · Money you lost
Answer: A plan you set in advance for the money you'll spend
A budget means spending to a plan!
📈 Q. What do you call it when things get more expensive (prices rise)?
Options: Saving · Inflation · Donating · Exchanging money
Answer: Inflation
The same money buys you less!
🌍 Q. What do the world's currencies have in common?
Options: The same color · The same size · A person or symbol that represents the country · The same picture
Answer: A person or symbol that represents the country
Each country puts its pride on its money!
💱 Q. What is an 'exchange rate'?
Options: The weight of money · The color of money · The rate for swapping one country's money for another's · The size of money
Answer: The rate for swapping one country's money for another's
1 dollar equals how many euros? That rate is the exchange rate!
🇪🇺 Q. Where was the shared euro currency first used?
Options: Asia · Europe · Antarctica · Africa
Answer: Europe
Europe. The European Union countries made it to share, pulling lots of separate currencies into one.
🏦 Q. What do you call the extra you get for lending money out?
Options: Tax · Interest · Pocket money · Change
Answer: Interest
Put money in a bank and you get interest!
🗣️ Q. Which does NOT help in a country where you don't speak the language?
Options: Speaking your own language loudly · A translation app · Drawing pictures · Gestures and expressions
Answer: Speaking your own language loudly
Go slowly, use gestures, use a translator!
🔢 Q. Which numbers are written on money all around the world?
Options: Egyptian numbers · Only Chinese numerals · Roman numerals · Arabic numerals
Answer: Arabic numerals
Numbers like 1000 and 5000 are Arabic numerals!
🔤 Q. Which of these is NOT a language?
Options: A math formula · Sign language · Korean · English
Answer: A math formula
A math formula is symbols, not a language! (Sign language IS a language.)
🤝 Q. What matters most for getting along with countries around the world?
Options: Fighting · Ignoring them · Respecting each other's language and culture · Not caring
Answer: Respecting each other's language and culture
Respect is the first step to world peace!
🇨🇦 Q. What is the money used in Canada called?
Options: The yen · The euro · The Canadian dollar · The pound
Answer: The Canadian dollar
The Canadian dollar. It shares a name with the US dollar but is worth a different amount, and its coins and bills have maple leaves on them.
🇦🇺 Q. What is the money used in Australia called?
Options: The euro · The Australian dollar · The rupee · The pound
Answer: The Australian dollar
The Australian dollar. Australia was the first country in the world to make plastic banknotes that don't tear even when they get wet.
🇹🇷 Q. What is the money used in Türkiye (Turkey) called?
Options: The euro · The ruble · The lira · The dollar
Answer: The lira
Türkiye's lira!
🇳🇱 Q. Which language is mostly spoken in the Netherlands?
Options: Dutch · English · French · German
Answer: Dutch
Dutch. It's a cousin of German and English, which may be why Dutch people are so good at English.
🇪🇬 Q. Which language do people in Egypt mostly speak?
Options: Spanish · Arabic · French · English
Answer: Arabic
Egypt speaks Arabic!
💰 Q. Which is closest to why people first started making and using money?
Options: To decorate things · To weigh things · To make buying and selling easier · To play games
Answer: To make buying and selling easier
Money appeared to make trading easier!
💳 Q. When you pay with a debit card, where does the money come from?
Options: The national treasury · Your own bank account · A friend's account · The bank owner
Answer: Your own bank account
It comes straight out of your account!
🗣️ Q. What do you call someone who can speak several languages?
Options: Only a traveler · A loner · An athlete · A multilingual speaker
Answer: A multilingual speaker
Someone brilliant who speaks several countries' languages!