Currency Quiz 3 - Know more about Indian Currency

Currency Quiz 3

---

1. Who decides the quantity of the notes to be printed?

The President
The Prime Minister
Lok Sabha
Reserve Bank of India

2. Who has the responsibility of minting of coins?

Reserve Bank of India
Government of India
India Security Press
Currency Note Press

3. 50 paise coin cannot be used to settle any amount above

100
1000
10
10000

4. In which year did the Government of India stop printing one rupee notes?

1997
2000
1992
1994

5. The first one rupee note was issued in the year

1938
1917
1947
1948

6. Whose signature is found on the one rupee notes issued by Governement of India?

RBI Governor
President of India
Finance Minister
Finance Secretary

7. Who designed the new Indian Rupee symbol?

D. Udaya Kumar
Nondita Correa-Mehrotra
Hitesh Padmashali
Shahrukh J. Irani

8. Which one of the following countries DO NOT have rupee as their currency?

Maldives
Seychelles
Sri Lanka
Afganisthan

9. Which one of the following languages is present on Indian currency?

Manipuri
Dogri
Bodo
Konkani

10. Which currency was introduced by the Indian government in 1959 as a replacement for the Indian rupee, for circulation exclusively outside the country?

Indian Rupee
Gulf Rupee
Kuwaiti Rupee
Rufiyah

Currency Quiz 2 - Know more about Indian Currency

Currency Quiz 2

---

1. The study or collection of currency is called

Numismatics
Philately
Antiquities
Deltiology

2. The first Indian commemorative coin was issued in the year

1947
1973
1964
1948

3. The high value notes were demonitised earlier in the year

1946
1978
Both 1946 and 1978
1954

4. Which NGO introduced Zero Rupee note as a means of helping to fight systemic political corruption?

Aawas
India Against Corruption ("IAC")
Bhrashtachar Nirmulan Samiti
5th Pillar

5. Who is credited with the concept of Zero Rupee Note?

Arvind Kejriwal
Anna Hasare
Prashant Bhushan
Satindar Mohan Bhagat

6. Indian government's bank note press which is largest of its kind in Asia is located at

Nashik
Dewas
Salboni
Hoshangabad

7. The Paper Currency Act which gave the Government the monopoly of note issue in India was passed in the year

1861
1857
1816
1947

8. In which year did Reserve Bank of India commence its operations?

1949
1953
1935
1934

9. Whose portrait did the first paper currency issued by RBI had?

Mahatma Gandhi
George VI
Queen Victoria
BR Ambedkar

10. RBI has the power to print currency notes up to the denomination of

10000
100000
20000
5000

Currency Quiz 1 - Know more about Indian Currency

The demonetization of 500 and 1000 rupee banknotes was a step taken by the Government of India on 8 November 2016, ceasing the acceptance of all 500 and 1000 rupee notes as a form of legal tender in India from 9 November 2016.

Here is a set of questions to test and improve your knowledge on Indian currency.

---

1. The word 'Rupee' was derived from

Sanskrit
Hindi
Urdu
Tamil

2. The signature of which RBI Governor was the first to appear on the currency notes of the Indian rupee?

James Braid Taylor
Osborne Smith
C. D. Deshmukh
Benegal Rama Rau

3. Which emperor released the first rupee, 'rupiya'?

Akbar
Sher Shah Suri
Aurangazeb
Shahjahan

4. The Currency Note Press and India Security Press, where Indian currency and government stamp papers are printed respectively, are located at

Nashik
Dewas
Salboni
Hoshangabad

5. The Danish Indian rupee was the currency of Danish India. In which year it was replaced with Indian Rupee?

1857
1847
1845
1947

6. The first paper currency issued by RBI was of the denomination

10
100
50
5

7. In which year the rupee was decimalised?

1947
1957
1948
1952

8. Which one of the following currencies is pegged at par with Indian rupee?

ngultrum
yen
yuan
krone

9. Which country in 2014 added Indian rupee as a legal tender?

Myanmar
Bangladesh
Zimbabwe
UAE

10. How many languages do the currency notes have its denominations written?

17
18
20
14



Visit again for the next set of questions on Indian Currency. Please post your feedback as a comment.