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No, HQ Trivia Players, the Yen Is NOT the Official Currency of China
« on: February 20, 2018, 01:05:37 am »
No, HQ Trivia Players, the Yen Is NOT the Official Currency of China
By Brian Chappatta  and Katherine Greifeld
February 16, 2018, 11:07 AM EST
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-02-16/no-millennials-the-yen-is-not-the-official-currency-of-china

The minds behind HQ Trivia just learned that when they want to truly stump their smartphone audience, they need only turn to the currency market.

In the Thursday night edition of the daily interactive game-show app, an early question asked the 857,623 contestants remaining: “What is the official currency of China?” For denizens of Wall Street, it’s an easy answer. For the droves of millennials and non-finance types participating -- not so much.

Almost 720,000 players, or 84 percent, chose the yen, rather than the correct answer: renminbi. The third option, the non-existent “Chinese dollar,” received almost as many selections as renminbi.

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Re: No, HQ Trivia Players, the Yen Is NOT the Official Currency of China
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2018, 01:13:26 am »
The problem isn't that people are stupid. The problem is that no one, not even the Chinese, call it "renminbi." What probably happened is that people knew what it was really called, the yuan, and not seeing it, guessed the closest word to it (yen).
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