Old Names

Total Questions: 27

1 - Ho Chi Minh is a city of Vietnam and is old name of?

A ) Saigo ✅
B ) No Nang
C ) Honai
D ) None of these

2 - Mesopotamia is the old name of ----:

A ) Iraq ✅
B ) Egypt
C ) Ethiopia
D ) Greece

3 - Babylon is the old name of -----:

A ) Tunisia
B ) Iraq ✅
C ) Turkey
D ) None of these

4 - Malabar was the ancient name of -----:

A ) Bombay
B ) Calcutta
C ) Delhi
D ) Madras ✅

5 - Chennai is the new name of which Indian city?

A ) Patna
B ) Madras ✅
C ) Agra
D ) Lucknow

6 - Siam is the old name of ---:

A ) Thailand ✅
B ) Singapore
C ) Indonesia
D ) Cambodia

7 - 'Formasa ' is the old name of ----:

A ) Mongolia
B ) Taiwan ✅
C ) Thailand
D ) Japan

8 - What was the old name of Ghana?

A ) Ivory
B ) Liberia
C ) Gold Coast ✅
D ) Cameroon

9 - Which historical leader referred to Afghanistan as the "bacteria of Asia"?

A ) Alexander the Great ✅
B ) Genghis Khan
C ) Napoleon Bonaparte
D ) Julius Caesar

10 - The old name of Indonesia was ?

A ) Malay peninsula
B ) Borneo
C ) Sumatra
D ) Dutch East indies ✅

11 - Which country was known as Persia until 1935?

A ) Iraq
B ) Iran ✅
C ) Afghanistan
D ) Armenia

12 - Which country was previously called Zaire?

A ) Rwanda
B ) Angola
C ) Uganda
D ) Democratic Republic of Congo ✅

13 - What was the old name of Myanmar?

A ) Laos
B ) Burma ✅
C ) Cambodia
D ) Thailand

14 - The old name of Afghanistan was?

A ) Persia
B ) Bactria ✅
C ) Khorasan
D ) Gandhara

15 - Which country was formerly known as Ceylon?

A ) Maldives
B ) Seychelles
C ) Mauritius
D ) Sri Lanka ✅

16 - What was the old name of Somalia?

A ) Somaliland
B ) Italian East Africa
C ) Abyssinia
D ) French Somaliland ✅

17 - The old name of Djibouti was ----?

A ) Djibouti
B ) Abyssinia
C ) Puntland
D ) French Somaliland ✅

18 - What was the old name of Sudan?

A ) Nubia ✅
B ) Darfur
C ) Sudanese Republic
D ) Anglo Egyptian Sudan

19 - The old name of Tanzania was -----?

A ) Zanzibar ✅
B ) British East Africa
C ) Nyasaland
D ) Tanganyika

20 - The old name of Zimbabwe was ----?

A ) Southern Rhodesia ✅
B ) Bechuanaland
C ) Mashonaland
D ) Rhodesia

21 - What was the old name of Zambia?

A ) Nyasaland
B ) Rhodesia
C ) Zambia Colony
D ) Northern Rhodesia ✅

22 - What is the current name of the country once called Upper Volta?

A ) Burkina Faso ✅
B ) Chad
C ) Guinea
D ) Benin

23 - What was the region once known as Lower Volta a part of?

A ) Togo
B ) Ghana ✅
C ) Ivory Coast
D ) Liberia

24 - What was the old name of Harare?

A ) Nairobi
B ) Cairo
C ) Salisbury ✅
D ) Lusaka

25 - What was the old name of Oslo?

A ) Stavanger
B ) Tromso
C ) Christiania ✅
D ) Bergen

26 - What was the old name of Namibia?

A ) South West Africa ✅
B ) Angola
C ) Zaire
D ) Rhodesia

27 - What was the old name of Jakarta?

A ) Batavia ✅
B ) Bandung
C ) Surabaya
D ) Yogyakarta