Old Names

Total Questions: 27

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

A ) Saigon ✅
B ) Honai
C ) No Nang
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 ) Turkey
B ) Tunisia
C ) Iraq ✅
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 ) Agra
C ) Madras ✅
D ) Lucknow

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

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

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

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

8 - What was the old name of Ghana?

A ) Ivory coast
B ) Liberia
C ) Gold cost ✅
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 ) Dutch East indies ✅
D ) Sumatra

11 - Which country was known as Persia until 1935?

A ) Afghanistan
B ) Iran ✅
C ) Iraq
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 ) Cambodia
C ) Burma ✅
D ) Thailand

14 - The old name of Afghanistan was ?

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

15 - Which country was formerly known as Ceylon?

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

16 - What was the old name of Somalia?

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

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 ) Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
D ) Sudanese Republic

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

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

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

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

21 - What was the old name of Zambia?

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

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

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

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

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

24 - What was the old name of Harare?

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

25 - What was the old name of Oslo?

A ) Stavanger
B ) Tromso
C ) Christina ✅
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 ) Surabaya
C ) Bandung
D ) Yogyakarta