King William’s College Kwizz 2019. FT Round 12

Getting nowhere with optical Leviathans, including trying to come up with locations of GIANT TELESCOPES to no avail, I decided to turn the search around and see if any currency I could think of might ring any optical bell. No luck so far, but here are the ones I came up with (including some which are recently defunct and quite possibly some spurious misrememberings), in case it can help anyone else:

krone, krona, koruna, kroon, lat, litas, rouble, hryvnya, euro, pound, dollar, franc, escudo, manat, som, somoni, afghani, lira, lev, leu, yen, yuan, won, rial, riel, riyal, dinar, dirham, shekel, diner, zloty, forint, shilling, ariary, nakfa, najra, cedi, kwanza, kwacha, ouguiya, birr, pataca, peso, lempira, bolivar, boliviano, (nuevo) sol, real, guarani, kina, rupee, rufiyah, ringgit, tala, balboa

So, I looked up which ones I forgot: apsar, peseta, guilder, florin, (convertible) mark, taka, ngultrum, lari, dalasi, kuna, gourde, rupiah, kip, loti, denar (not diner), kyat, tögrög, metical, leone, dobra, lilangeni, baht, pa’anga, vatu.

If I absolutely had to give an answer now, I’d go with Peruvian sol as the Sun, which is a large thing and allows us to see optically and um it really doesn’t work all that well does it.