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Hi everyone,

welcome to the November 2024 edition of #fridaygeotrivia, our a social media geotrivia contest. We play on the final Friday of every month.

The game will be played on Friday, 29th of November, at 17:00 Berlin time, 4pm London time, 11am New York time.

See how to play below.

The November 2024 geotrivia question:

Name countries who currency name is unique. For example, while Australia, Singapore, and the US all use “dollars”, Albania is the only country whose currency is the Lek.

As always:

  • Only one answer per toot

  • You must include the hashtag #fridaygeotrivia and the emoji flag of relevant countries

Prizes

#fridaygeotrivia is a game with two prizes:

  1. the sheer joy of geographic knowledge and pedantry.

  2. the bragging rights of getting the answer first.

The #fridaygeotrivia Mastodon thread:

Post by @opencage@en.osm.town
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The winner

The winner was milvus, second place went to IIVQ

This month’s geotrivia answer:

  • United Arab Emirates Dirham
  • Afghan Afghani
  • Albanian Lek
  • Armenian Dram
  • Angolan Kwanza
  • Aruban Florin
  • Azerbaijani Manat
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina Convertible Mark
  • Bangladeshi Taka
  • Bulgarian Lev
  • Bolivian Boliviano
  • Brazilian Real
  • Bhutanese Ngultrum
  • Botswana Pula
  • Chinese Renminbi Yuan
  • Costa Rican Colón
  • Cape Verdean Escudo
  • Eritrean Nakfa
  • Ethiopian Birr
  • Georgian Lari
  • Ghanaian Cedi
  • Gambian Dalasi
  • Guatemalan Quetzal
  • Honduran Lempira
  • Haitian Gourde
  • Hungarian Forint
  • Israeli New Shekel
  • Japanese Yen
  • Cambodian Riel
  • Kazakhstani Tenge
  • Lao Kip
  • Lesotho Loti
  • Malagasy Ariary
  • Myanmar Kyat
  • Mongolian Tögrög
  • Macanese Pataca
  • Mauritanian Ouguiya
  • Maldivian Rufiyaa
  • Malaysian Ringgit
  • Mozambican Metical
  • Nigerian Naira
  • Nicaraguan Córdoba
  • Panamanian Balboa
  • Peruvian Sol
  • Papua New Guinean Kina
  • Polish Złoty
  • Paraguayan Guaraní
  • Sierra Leonean Leone
  • São Tomé and Príncipe Dobra
  • Salvadoran Colón
  • Swazi Lilangeni
  • Thai Baht
  • Tajikistani Somoni
  • Turkmenistani Manat
  • Tongan Paʻanga
  • Turkish Lira
  • Ukrainian Hryvnia
  • Venezuelan Bolívar Soberano
  • Vietnamese Đồng
  • Vanuatu Vatu
  • Samoan Tala
  • South African Rand

How to play

Anyone can join in, you just need a Mastodon account.

  • Follow us on Mastodon, our account is @opencage@en.osm.town

  • When the game starts we will post the question here on the blog and on Mastodon, and will embed the Mastodon question here. We highly recommend using a mastodon client you feel comfortable with. We’ve made the switch to the Elk client and are loving it, but use whatever works for you.

  • Reply to the question thread on Mastodon (it will be embedded above) using the hashtag #fridaygeotrivia in your answer.

  • Only one answer per response (don’t stuff multiple answers into a single reply).

  • Our definition of “country” is usually (it depends on the question) any place with an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code. Read more background about ISO and country codes in our guide.

  • To get full points for an answer it is good form not just to name the relevant country but (if possible) to include the emoji flags of the country.

  • While you can use a map, please do NOT use the internet to just search for an answer. That is cheating and will lead to seriously bad geokarma.

Some people have complained that the format is a bit chaotic and hard to follow. Yes. The mad chaos is part of the fun. Embrace it. The goal is just to have fun and learn. We win by playing

Thanks for playing,

Ed