Welcome to Debojyoti's trivia quiz #004 !!!

Q #1 : First a question on Netherlands, the country I was in for the last one month. What is common to poet Joost van den Vondel, painter Frans Hals, Composer Jan Petersz. Sweelinck, admiral Michiel de Ruyter and philosopher Baruch d'Spinoza ?	Their faces were on the 5, 10, 25, 100 and 1000 Guilder (previous dutch currency) old banknotes.
Q #2 : ISO 4217 is an international standard describing three letter codes to define the names of currencies established by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).How do one get the three letters ?	The first two letters of the code are the two letters of ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes (which are similar to those used for national top-level domains on the internet) and the third is usually the initial of the currency itself. Like INR - IN for India and R for Rupee.
Q #3 : Before this currency code was added in ISO 4217, a new code in ISO 3166-1 (country code) had to be added. The predecessor of this currency had the code XEU. What is the code now in wide use ?	EUR a.k.a. Euro. Before adding EUR in currency code, EU (for European Union) had to be added.
Q #4 : Why no currency code can start with X ?	Because, no country code can start with a X. In fact, X stands for precious metal codes.
Q #5 : IF JPY is Japan Yen, USD is United States Dollar, what is SOS ?	Somali Shilling
Q #6 : What is so common to the following countries (the link is currency, of course !) - Tunisia, Sudan, Serbia, Libya, Kuwait, Jordan, Bahrain and Algeria ?	Currency of each country is named Dinar.
Q #7 : What is common to the following words : Fils, Baizas, Millimes, Lipas (related to currency) ?	Subdivision of currencies, 1000 fils = 1 Iraqi Dinar, 1000 Baizas = 1 Oman Rial, 1000 Millimes = 1 Tunisia Dinar and 100 Lipas = 1 Croatia Kuna.
Q #8 : What is common to the following countries : Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the Trucial States (Now UAE) and Malaysia (Hint : Currency and old time) ?	The Indian Rupee was regarded as an official currency of these countries.
Q #9 : Each Indian banknote has its amount written in 15 languages. 13 of these are on the back, which two are in the front ?	English and Hindi of course !!!
Q #10 : What common picture would you find on a newer Indian notes(after 1996) besides the Parliament, the Himalayas, tractor, palm trees ?	A picture of Mahatma Gandhi. The notes that India brought after 1996 are called the Gandhi series. (Sudipda points : Gandhi, Ashok stambh are the two common pictures to be seen in newer notes. there were series carrying the famous 'follower' and 'industry' picture as well.)
Q #11 : Why a dollar is sometimes called "Pieces of Eight" ?	During the colonial times, when United States did not have its own money and coins made of real silver and gold were in circulation, the coins were cut into eight radial slices, just like pizzas of today. Each of these slices were called "bits" and the whole dollar coin "pieces of eight".

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