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THIS WEEKEND SEES the Eurovision come to a close.
Ireland sadly didn’t make it to the end, but at least we showed our face at this annual gathering of European neighbours (and, eh, Australia and Israel).
Visitors to host city Liverpool will be travelling home in the next few days – but not without exchanging their sterling back into euro or their local currency of course.
Actually, speaking of that… let’s see if you know your leu from your lev.
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Bring back the punt, 10 penny sweets, 25p cavan cola, 10p bags of crisps, 10 carrolls for 1.45…. (walking 17 miles to school in the snow with no shoes carrying bags of coal and so on…..)
@Colin Doonan: cadet cola, country spring… Delish
Any chance the first ten questions were to prove a point
Someone gets paid to do this
Bitcoin fixes this
@Snacktoshi Nachomoto⚡∞/21M: That’s true, look at all the crypto companies crashing one after another.
Bitcoins is a scam where only the cows win.
@Yvon Queguiner: None of that has anything to do with Bitcoin. Dig a little deeper.
@Snacktoshi Nachomoto⚡∞/21M: bitcoin isnt money.
@Allora: You have no idea what money is
16 correct answers, I’m the head of the IMF.
How insulting
You scored 14 out of 20!
You are former Central Bank of Ireland governor Patrick Honohan
This annoyed me
17/20 because i work in all of the countries mentioned and i didn’t know about Croatia because i wasn’t there since 2004.
Still can’t read quiz results in dark mode
Very annoying, I thought I was on a roll, getting them all right
have your say