GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1. Which Dutch painter cut off part of his ear?                                             Vincent van Gogh
2. In which country is the Great Barrier Reef?                                                       Australia
3. What color is chlorophyll?                                                                                  Green
4. What is the capital of Thailand?                                                                          Bangkok
5. How many points are scored for a touchdown in American football?                     Six               
6. Which soft green egg-shaped fruit comes from New Zealand?                              The Kiwi fruit
7. Who was the youngest Beatle?                                                                       George Harrison
8. What language do the people of Brazil speak?                                                      Portuguese
9. Who lives at number four, Privet Drive?                                                               Harry Potter
10.In which city is the cathedral of Nôtre Dame?                                                      Paris
11.What color is the middle stripe of the French flag?                                                White
12.Who wrote a famous diary while hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam?                  Anne Frank
13.Who directed, Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and ET?                                     Steven Spielberg
14.Who was the leading actress in Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail?            Meg Ryan
15.What is the family name of JFK?                                                                         Kennedy
16.How many players are there in a baseball team?                                                   Nine
17.What is the national sport of Japan                                                                     Sumo wrestling
18.In which country was Buddha born?                                                                      Nepal
19.What nationality was Picasso?                                                                               Spanish
20.Whose nose grew longer every time he told a lie?                                                   Pinocchio

Indonesian Currency

Indonesian currency is Rupiah. is it influenced by the name of the Indian Rupee ? We do not know exactly. If it is right maybe because it was long time ago Indonesian people and culture are Hindus. The other reason is that even up to nowadays many Indonesian names and terminologies are Indian such as Madura, Sri, Wisnu, Yudha, Atma, etc.

The following is very simple history of our currency. First, during the Dutch colonization, Indonesian well-known as the Nethrland Indian used guilder, the Dutch currency, and it's small change, cent. They were cast on gold, silver, and brass. Then, it seems that when the Japanese colonized Indonesia, rupiah was firstly used by Dai Nippon Teikoku Seihu, and they still used cent for small change. They were printed on paper. At last rupiah has been used since the early of the Republic of Indonesia. And what about Indonesian sen (not cent) ? It was cast on some kinds of metals, aluminium, nickel, and brass and was used until 1968. The values were half a sen, one sen, two and a half sens, five sens, tens sens, twenty five sens, and fifty sens. Before the end of president Soekarno's era, one sen, five sens, ten sens, twenty five sens and fifty sens were printed on paper was Rp 1 the highest was Rp 1000. Today the longest digital currency in the world is rupiah, Rp 100,000. Wow...!

When the writer was a child, his mother gave him five sens for his pocket money per day. With this sum of money, he could spend two sens for a bowl of porridge for breakfast, one sen for a glass of drink, one sen for another snack and still could bring home another sen. It was his experience in 1950s. And when he was an SMA student in1965, his school fee was Rp 5. How high the value of our currency at that time was. Today if we talk about our salary or other income, tax, and other expenses, we must use the words of millions, billion even trillions of rupiahs, the words that was never heard about long time ago.  

ROWAN ATKINSON

Mr. Bean

Rowan Sebastian Atkinson who is known as Mr. Bean was born in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne_England. He graduated of Newcastle University and Oxford Univesity, earned degrees on electrical engineering.

Since his flast appearance in 1989, Mr. Bean has achieved a massive following around the world-he is now recognised as the most popular British comedy.